Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was not sure which he wanted her to be and was still puzzling about it next day when she called to take him down . |
| 2 | Without wading through it all and things are moving on |
| 3 | Alright , mother 's alright , she 's on top of the world she is at the moment , nothing of her , but , she seems to be struggling through it all . |
| 4 | Looking through it that is the simplest one cos you can see |
| 5 | And the team will cry out for joy as well , because we were created for this community , and in a way we have been looking for it all our lives . |
| 6 | You were looking for it last night . |
| 7 | But Cabrera 's detector , a superconducting loop , would pick up a monopole passing through it irrespective of its velocity . |
| 8 | John Stuart Mill notices this ( he quotes the sentence in question , italicising ‘ and of individual qualities ’ ) , and proceeds ( 1 ) to ask what is meant by an ‘ individual quality ’ ; ( 2 ) as if he knows the answer to this question ( namely , the individual qualities of an object are ‘ the individual and instantaneous impressions which it produces in us ’ ) , to deny that predicating a quality of an object is predicating of it one of its individual qualities ; and ( 3 ) to say what it is to predicate a quality of an object ( namely , ‘ to assert that the object affects us in a manner similar to that in which we are affected by a known class of objects ’ ) . |
| 9 | Acting , according to Middle East International of Aug. 30 , " almost like a real parliament " , the Assembly voted to amend legislation for a new sales tax by exempting from it all food and medical products , paper for schools and journals and certain other products . |
| 10 | ‘ I know I ca n't go on listening to it all day , but find it one more time . ’ |
| 11 | None of them had been the kind of people who could have imagined devotion to a pet animal or according to it funerary rites . |
| 12 | ‘ In Rome , I 'll be going out to win but I 'm looking on it first and foremost as the chance to get the feel of the hurdles again . ’ |
| 13 | It too was wet and the ink writing on it indecipherable , but it was still recognisable as the pasteboard square dentists use to remind patients of their appointments . |
| 14 | I 've never thought of looking at it that way before . ’ |
| 15 | Oh I l I l I like looking at it that 's the main thing . |
| 16 | well I 'm sorry but from where I 'm looking at it sixty two but not that I 've thought about it in any depth but |
| 17 | So we 're looking at it first , I I think in the end , there are schemes that we 've got to put on to the back burner , or the , until such times Lincoln develops further , and there is further development . |
| 18 | I was looking at it other day . |
| 19 | Christians have hindsight , you 're looking at it , you 're looking at it two thousand years later and you can see him riding into Jerusalem on a donkey , knowing that he 's going to a victory . |
| 20 | Keep on looking at it all the time . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm looking at it all very positively , ’ she says , ‘ because auditing is n't for me anyway — and the partners knew that , which is how they chose who to make redundant . |
| 22 | one ball hanging out like like I mean you could n't help looking at it all the time |
| 23 | The technique of civil disobedience was applied precisely because decency was so evidently not enough , or , looking at it another way , because there was so evidently not enough decency . |
| 24 | Looking at it another way , imagine that you have been asked to make a bookcase in a craft lesson . |
| 25 | Looking at it another way it is perhaps a neat coupling of the word 's etymology . |
| 26 | But then , looking at it another way , I am , loosely speaking , the Government . |
| 27 | So looking at it this way up I mean it 's X equals Y to the fourth plus three and that 's all minus . |
| 28 | We 're not gon na be looking at it this morning , but it 's quite simple if you were to read on down , the reason why is because on the other side there is a man there who is possessed of a whole legion of demons who desperately needs deliverance and Jesus is going over there to bring healing , to bring deliverance to this man . |
| 29 | Her only worry is paying for it all . |
| 30 | I 'll start paying for it this week anyway |