Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , you 're only using it one day a week . |
| 2 | Many Japanese families today are sitting down to enjoy a meal of dolphin , perhaps eating it raw , or salted and pickled in miso , or dried with seasonings and made into sausage . |
| 3 | So very often it 's better to hold the wardrobe vertical and the man at the bottom end if you like holds it vertical and you go down holding it flat like that . |
| 4 | If the hair is chemically processed too often , it might break so treating it first will prevent it becoming very dry and damaged . |
| 5 | Yeah , then you better pricing it low and getting rid of it then too high and . |
| 6 | So it 's more than a little interesting to note that today , they 're all doing it that way . |
| 7 | So it 's more than a little interesting to note that today , they 're all doing it that way . |
| 8 | Zen sat there unhappily taking it all in . |
| 9 | Leguminous green manures , such as clover and beans , fix atmospheric nitrogen in the soil by means of their root nodules , so making it available to plants later in the growing season . |
| 10 | Many people do not realise just how much they are being charged as most financial advisers make their money via commission , which is normally obscured , so making it difficult to work out what the true cost is . |
| 11 | In the parable of the sower the thorns which choke the growing seed so making it barren are the ‘ worldly cares and the false glamour of wealth ’ ( Matt. |
| 12 | If you invested a pound on a horse , then the amount of money you 'd expect to get back would depend on the odds that that horse was offered at , but if you confined yourself to horses that had a reasonable chance of winning , say , the sort of horses that tend to be offered at odds of , say , six or seven to one or better , then your average rate of return might be nearer ninety per cent than thirty per cent , so putting it one way betting a pound a week on the horses is a slower way of losing your money than betting a pound a week on football pools , but football pools gives you a much greater chance of winning an absolutely astonishing sum of money . |
| 13 | The King 's sister was white-faced and tight-lipped , obviously finding it difficult to control her anger . |
| 14 | I think it 's a matter that should be approached slowly , perhaps making it necessary to stay overnight , or even for a few days . |
| 15 | In fact he pulled it further down making it easier for me to breathe . |
| 16 | Again , on the flight home from Melbourne at the end of their Australian tour in 1985 , Charles hand-wrote a long and frank letter about his thoughts on a wide range of issues , including the Greater London Council — a politically explosive subject — — and had entrusted it to the common mail , without apparently thinking it unwise . |
| 17 | I though oh bugger it I 'm not bringing it any more it 's getting too big . |
| 18 | ‘ They 're not using it any more so they 've said I can use it for canteen stuff . |
| 19 | If the control knobs had been placed half an inch or so higher then the selector could be placed below them , thus bringing it nearer to the player 's right hand . |
| 20 | It 's just proving it that 's going to be difficult . |
| 21 | Just the handling of equipment , and the new video equipment being delivered , and the hope that the division will invest in its own equipment , erm maybe it 's just a question really , do n't know if people here could help to answer it , but erm the more video equipment we have the more problems we have actually with erm just keeping it all up together , keeping it all working , and it is a constant problem with stuff being borrowed and coming back with bits missing or bits not functioning , mostly leads . |
| 22 | She wondered whether Bryony was offended ; perhaps she thought Carolyn was criticizing them for not keeping it cleaner . |
| 23 | The High Elf sorcerers had succeeded in opening the vortex but were trapped within it , eternally keeping it open , eternally trapped in the last moments of their battle with Chaos . |
| 24 | The Russian Justice Ministry announced on Aug. 11 that it had annulled the party 's registration , thus denying it legal status . |
| 25 | The drizzle was already soaking it darker . |
| 26 | It would be almost certain to give the strongest party not a majority of seats , but only a plurality , thus rendering it incapable of governing without the support or at least the consent of one other party . |
| 27 | But there 's no ‘ wow ’ factor in just getting it right and so much of the work is a distress purchase . ’ |
| 28 | He said to me on the phone he did n't know a great deal cos he was just getting it all together . |
| 29 | The attacking troops are certainly not getting it all their own way and the shelling from both sides is causing casualties in the Commando positions . ’ |
| 30 | You need flexibility to change tack if you are not getting it right . |