Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looks and the bear 's hanging off it at the side , grrr ! on the window and the man goes aargh ! and the man runs off and he gets on he gets on an aeroplane the aeroplane and he 's safe . |
| 2 | He had drowned , unable to move , when the rising tide had filled the channel : Marie remembered seeing about it on the local television news . |
| 3 | Zach told her his age , which was nine , and spelt out his name , apologizing for it at the same time . |
| 4 | Some of those pigments presumably behaved in the way that melanin behaves in human skin , absorbing solar energy , disposing of it through the body as heat . |
| 5 | But if a little exercise is desired , first cross the bridge on the Tan Hill road and follow a path upriver along the edge of cliffs and descend to another bridge to regain the Birkdale road , returning along it past the Force . |
| 6 | Then , gradually , her ideas would come together until , sitting on a stretch of grass and stabbing at it with the end of her parasol , she would repeat to herself , ‘ Oh God , why did I get married ? ’ ’ |
| 7 | The mere fact that the photon 's colliding with the electron and bouncing off it into the microscope has the effect of changing the electron 's momentum would not of itself be disastrous . |
| 8 | But the politicians are looking for it in the wrong direction . |
| 9 | ‘ The others will come looking for it in the morning , ’ Grimma warned . |
| 10 | ‘ The newsboys were shouting about it in the street , ’ |
| 11 | Why , he was boasting about it in the prop-room . |
| 12 | ‘ His neighbour is looking after it at the moment but I do n't think she 'll be prepared to keep it indefinitely . |
| 13 | Passing beneath it from the lay part of the church , the nave , to the chancel , where the priest celebrated , figuratively marked the rite of passage from earth to heaven . |
| 14 | Ralph Meeker snapped an old man 's priceless Caruso record in half in Kiss Me Deadly , Richard Conte tortured Cornel Wilde by turning up a hearing aid and shouting into it in The Big Combo , Ingrid Bergman drank the poisoned Brazilian coffee in Notorious , Charles Laughton plunged down a lift shaft in The Big Clock , Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth shot it out in a hall of mirrors in Lady from Shanghai , Edmond O'Brien lurched into a police station to report his own murder in D.O.A. , Tony Curtis was brutally beaten by a corrupt cop in Sweet Smell of Success , Laurence Harvey jumped in the lake in The Manchurian Candidate . |
| 15 | The French army included in the middle of the century over 50,000 foreigners , and still had over 40,000 serving in it on the eve of the Revolution . |
| 16 | The crowd seemed to be getting a little impatient just before the goal ( as I 'm sure we all were listening to it on the radio ) but can you imagine what the scum crowd would ahve been doing to their team if they had n't scored within twenty minutes ? |
| 17 | You , you were listening to it on the radio . |
| 18 | Watching it or listening to it on the |
| 19 | Sky T V so they were either watching it on their own or being very neighbourly with their neighbours or listening to it on the radio or as you say , up in Liverpool . |
| 20 | The boy was holding a magnifying glass over a postcard and writing on it in the tiniest hand . |
| 21 | The pups slithered out onto the weedy boulders , not forty feet from the cottage window , and waited expectantly until she reappeared carrying a sizeable fish , which the two of them ate together , wrestling over it among the sea-tangle . |
| 22 | Now Summerchild has mentioned it , I believe I remember looking at it during the long silences in my conversations with Millie . |
| 23 | Leaving aside for the moment the nature of teachers ' particular educational philosophy , I now wish to move from describing the predicament from the outside , so to speak , to looking at it through the eyes and feelings of teachers themselves . |
| 24 | He knew the pattern of the carpet by heart but now it was as if he were looking at it for the first time , taking it all in , the design of orange and black squares . |
| 25 | ‘ A friend of mine , Anthony Cherry , who produces Prime Time for the BBC , saw in this some journalistic potential and is currently looking at it for the BBC programme 40 Minutes ’ , says Hewitt . ’ |
| 26 | And though I am not sure I would be able to stand looking at it for the run of the show , William Holman Hunt 's hideous , hard-core Pre-Raphaelite head of Christ ‘ The Beloved ’ has the punch of a Gilbert and George . |
| 27 | I picked up the crumpled cheque and spread it out , looking at it with the sort of hopeless hunger with which one admires things in the window of Fortnum & Mason . |
| 28 | I 've got your red book here cos I was looking at it at the weekend . |
| 29 | Well , we 're all looking at it at the moment of , of course , but some of our first impressions are that for example on global warming , there 's no commitment to , to a carbon taxation . |
| 30 | There 's no excuse for that and if we 're er having as one of our major platforms of our business initiative 's quality , then er the quality must be right one hundred per cent all the time er so I was somewhat bothered that we were an an disappointed I suppose that we did n't get high ratings in the quality control reviews which were carried out , so to that end we were make make sure the next time we came round with a better score er so er we are looking at what 's called hot reviews which is looking at er an audit for example before it 's finalised by somebody completely independent of the job carrying out a technical review of the way in which tha that audit has been conducted er we are looking at it after the jobs been finished and probably in the slack season in the summer get people to actually review as if they were doing a dry quality control review of the job er prior to us getting an external review er carried out . |