Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents can record the intensity of the problem , for example whining and moaning as opposed to screaming , on the same chart by colouring the tick or making it bigger . |
| 2 | I mean , just leaving it to the baby , or making it dependent on the baby 's survival . |
| 3 | The fact that other parties respond at just these code switch points suggests that they represent the boundaries of salient categories within the talk — or putting it another way , that they represent the participants ' perceptions of the relevant sections of talk which require or permit a response — even where these boundaries do not correspond with any syntactic boundary . |
| 4 | Try wearing it belted over a pair of tailored trousers , for a smart look , or leaving it open over casual separates . |
| 5 | The tone control has the ability to do exactly what you 'd expect , thickening the sound or leaving it open and bright . |
| 6 | The following extract is exactly as written : ‘ When I tell you that something you use every day could be put to better use — and that using it better could help you to win greater influence , more respect and higher status , promotion and a larger income … it could widen your circle of friends and possibly even secure you fame and power — you might well be curious to know what that ‘ something ’ is … |
| 7 | They tend to throw the ball rather than kicking it 60 yards up the park . ’ |
| 8 | Could you give the offices some details , rather than having it all out in public , thanks . |
| 9 | rather than doing it direct , erm conscription of the painting |
| 10 | When the spirit parted from the body it found no one asking anything of it nor giving it any directions . ) |
| 11 | It just means that putting it first |
| 12 | What do you think as I fear that putting it right may be a costly job ? |
| 13 | I do n't remember the carpet coming up to hit me , nor finding it hard to breathe , nor at that moment did the judge put on the black cap and say that I must swing by the neck until I was dead . |
| 14 | People frequently end up disillusioned , and even hostile to the part the church has played , rather than finding it helpful . |
| 15 | Well it 's better than making it all up . |
| 16 | We appreciate your concern in allowing ‘ strangers ’ to live in your home but it is better to have your home cared for rather than leaving it empty . |
| 17 | I was conscious that underlying it all there must be some Law of Unnatural Selection , which could prove that the fittest product with the most colourful packaging was the most likely to be pollinated by purchase . |
| 18 | However , anglers regularly take home large quantities of fish , selling it locally , storing it in freezers and eating it several times a week . |
| 19 | Art historians call it looking at life through a hall of mirrors … capturing the ordinary and bringing it alive . |
| 20 | She saw that the man who owned it was hanging on to the side and checking it each time it swung . |
| 21 | Three steps fixed from the start , he wrote : making the glass , showing the glass , and ending it all . |
| 22 | Once she was certain that the house was asleep she had climbed lightly out of bed , dipping her face into the bowl of washing water on the table near the door and dabbing it dry with a hand towel . |
| 23 | He then was responsible for salting the venison and packing it in barrels , and keeping it safe until required , or sending it wherever the king wanted it . |
| 24 | Setting up the experiment in Utah and keeping it secret turned out to be easier than in Britain . |
| 25 | Eating was part of the serious business of training your body and keeping it fit . |
| 26 | The same effect can be obtained by filling the pool with water and emptying it several times over a period of two or three weeks . |
| 27 | For what we should be doing is taking a bit of the real world and imagining it existing while the rest is blocked off , and the activities of a postman in the real world involve this sort of belief . |
| 28 | Morning chats introduce the options ; righting drill , tailchasing in Lasers , knotting with spinnakers , knitting with trapeze wires , tacking Hobie cats , and threading it all together with a local regatta . |
| 29 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
| 30 | However , Poulantzas argues that , in smoothing over the structural contradictions of society and rendering it coherent , the state simultaneously maintains existing classes . |