Example sentences of "[prep] it [prep] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | There are not going to be agents of the DES disguised as pupils planted in every classroom , and teachers , renowned for their creativity , can exercise some of it on discovering creative interpretations of the law . |
2 | I managed to avoid a lot of it by having some tasks of my own . |
3 | People might 've messed around with it by putting this overhead profit to risk , they might 've put a negative er element in there , er they might 've put a high-cost element in there , they might put nought in there , so it 's very difficult to recognise that , that bill rates er from the labour , or the labour from the bill rate , there is n't a standard relationship , nowhere near . |
4 | ‘ I was born into the trap , he walked into it in avoiding another kind of servitude , with his eyes open , but not looking where he was going . |
5 | If you deviate from it , and it 's terribly easy to deviate from it by rejecting certain thoughts , oh that 's silly , that 's not relevant , that 's too obvious , that 's objectionable , erm , that 's too Freudian , you know , if you say that kind of thing to yourself you get nowhere . |
6 | It seems too that analogizing is so deeply involved not only in thinking but in perception that there is no hope of escaping from it by isolating pure observations from which induction can start . |
7 | Once you have decided on your core force you can elaborate upon it by adding more troops , war machines , and monsters . |
8 | As Chola was kneading the dough , they hovered over it in hissing black droves , and she stopped occasionally to pick out the ones she accidentally squashed , like currants . |
9 | I mean , it 's one of the things I wan na include in our discussion if we get round to it about having more resources available . |
10 | Whether she responds to it by producing special kinds of eggs destined to be soldiers or whether the workers treat the existing larvae in a special way is not certain . |
11 | She listened in silence while the girl , who insisted on being called Claire because , she explained , people viewed her profession with enough scepticism without her adding to it by adopting some theatrical and phoney title , informed her that she had managed to prepare her birth chart . |
12 | I do not think that we can turn back the tide of secularisation altogether in the area of dying , but we can call a halt to it by giving some serious thought to practices within our society and churches . |
13 | Boys would come from as far away as Shepherd 's Bush and Bayswater to play on it between fighting rival gangs . |
14 | It was now that the Greeks ( illiterate for several centuries , since the clumsy syllabary evolved in the later Bronze Age had died with the social system it served ) borrowed the suppler consonantal alphabet developed by the Phoenicians and improved on it by using some of the symbols for vowels . |
15 | And erm the old chief that designed er er erm a boring bath for it for boring that . |
16 | TCCB , known in the past to have administered punishment for long-past ‘ sins ’ , or at least for the disreputable later exposure of them , will have to decide whether Beefy 's tale of being ‘ extremely inebriated ’ in Perth five years ago , when he forgot his bat and had to go back for it before smashing 48 off Western Australia , is an indictable offence . |
17 | It may be that meaning is only a complication and that social science can allow for it by regarding human affairs as simply more complex than the other workings of nature . |
18 | My language awareness course is intended to obviate the need for it by enabling any teacher to learn alongside the pupils . |
19 | She thought about it without finding any kind of answer , and then she thought about the futures of her nursery-school children and others among the children of Dynmouth . |
20 | You start off learning about it by studying natural light , daylight . |
21 | Find out ways to tolerate the apparently unchangeable circumstance ; to live through it without becoming upset or ruffled , remind yourself that it wo n't last forever . |
22 | The suit could still go against Advanced Micro , but it is now free from the injunction barring it from shipping 80486 and later generation chips that include Intel proprietary microcode — although Intel is free to seek a new injunction prior to the retrial . |
23 | The suit could still go against Advanced Micro , but it is now free from the injunction barring it from shipping 80486 and later generation chips that include Intel proprietary microcode — although Intel is free to seek a new injunction prior to the retrial . |