Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone getting it wrong drops out of the game . |
| 2 | The vacancies came to light as the Department of the Environment announced a reorganisation of Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution , prior to giving it new powers in the ‘ green ’ Bill . |
| 3 | Van Helmont envisaged the natural world as a system of seedlike entities , seminal spirits that penetrated matter giving it specific properties . |
| 4 | As might have been expected , the larger exhibitions attracted considerably more visitors than the smallest exhibition , but all three received a generally favourable response from the public , with both the Carlyle and MacLean exhibitions being rated as Very Good or Good by at least 90% of those who saw them , and with 78% of those who saw the Skinner exhibition giving it similar ratings . |
| 5 | As indicated , in various parts of the country experimental projects have developed a co-ordinator role , giving it different titles , key worker , case manager , care co-ordinator , nominated social worker . |
| 6 | How many pennies per gram , I would prefer that too , so just sort of choose one way and stick to it , I always do it that way , and then you 're not confusing yourself doing it different ways . |
| 7 | He was cutting it proper shapes you know like they are today . |
| 8 | He imagined a policeman with nothing more to go on than a tiny , once brightly embroidered , label , a square inch of bloodstained , earth-stained , half-rotted cloth , hawking it round boutiques in Kilburn and West Hendon , narrowing the field , finally coming to an importers ' warehouse … |