Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] it [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , do remember that if suppleness exercise is done without it inducing heavier breathing and an increased heart-rate ( for example , yoga ) this will do very little for increasing your stamina . |
| 2 | On the weight shift types it is difficult to give the student experience at low ‘ g ’ manoeuvres and the pilots may be badly affected without it becoming obvious . |
| 3 | What leads up to this actualization is not specified , the very fact of something having led to it constituting that which is judged negatively by the speaker . |
| 4 | Think about it driving thirty hours . |
| 5 | Because he had he used to have a big open fire there and all the kids would be sitting round it keeping warm while he was mending the shoes . |
| 6 | FROM THE cocktail-lounge keyboard riff in ‘ Louder Than A Bomb ’ , to the no-nonsense , horn-riffed hip-hop of ‘ Radio Consultant ’ , ‘ Greatest Misses ’ is a fine compilation album , so do n't come to it expecting another ‘ Black Planet ’ . |
| 7 | I knew an empty beer keg when I was tied to one , and the last time I 'd seen that particular one there had been a young punk called Emma sitting on it nostrilling certain noxious and probably illegal substances . |
| 8 | The sky was a murky , pinkish grey ; clouds swirled across it exposing higher , greyer banks of cloud . |
| 9 | This Condition can only have effect if it is called into operation by the party wishing to rely on it giving written notice to the other to that effect . |