Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] it a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think she 's going off it a bit so I said oh well I 'll come and have a chat and I said listen , I said , I realize you you 've got a lot of school work and that and you 've got your boyfriend , I said , but there is now way that you 're gon na let him stand in the field , getting fat and getting old you 've got |
| 2 | This attitude has provoked strong reactions from various gallery holders who have benefited by the system , some of whom accuse Mr Job de Ruiter , the chairman of the Arts Council , of wanting to dictate the taste of the public by forcing on it a type of art it simply does n't want . |
| 3 | A bus passed them , bringing with it a flurry of dry dust from the gutter . |
| 4 | It was an image that spread and took root everywhere , bringing with it a tradition of atrocious performances — sloppy , flat and prettifying — that lasted throughout his lifetime , for the entire 19th century and for too much of the 20th . |
| 5 | Hot rage enveloped her , bringing with it a near-paralysis . |
| 6 | He became aware that his heartbeat was growing stronger — until soon it was pounding in his chest , each pulse bringing with it a stab of increasing pain . |
| 7 | Another explanation , also of a psychological nature , was faith — in God , in Islam , in their leader — bringing with it a preparedness to confront death in battle . |
| 8 | It collapsed like a punctured airbag , except that what came forth was not air but rank , fetid water , vomiting out in a copious stream and bringing with it a stench that sent them both staggering back several paces . |
| 9 | ‘ This really shook me this morning although I am getting over it a bit now , ’ she said yesterday . |
| 10 | If the applicant is added as a defendant the court sends the order to all parties , annexing to it a copy of the application ( Ord 15 , r 3 ) . |
| 11 | The course covers areas which are not the province of any one Department and is taught by Staff from many different academic backgrounds , thereby bringing to it a range of experience . |
| 12 | Dunning and colleagues conclude that authors like Clarke are guilty of romanticising working-class history , ‘ attributing to it a degree of family , inter-age-group and neighbourhood solidarity it has probably never possessed ’ ( ibid.:237 ) . |
| 13 | On the contrary , I read them as dismantling an old Crown privilege and substituting for it a principle upon which , in certain limited circumstances , the court has a discretion whether or not to require an undertaking in damages from the Crown as law enforcer . |
| 14 | Only four months previously the land had suddenly plummeted into the straits , taking with it a village of some eighty souls . |
| 15 | Bill : I was wondering recently what effect the AIDS hysteria has had outside the gay movement and I was talking about it a bit in a pub I use down in Sussex . |
| 16 | Thinking about our coastline , seeing that we 're talking about it a bit , what about our white cliffs all along the coast ? |
| 17 | The London International Stock Exchange yesterday voted to bring the costly Taurus paperless trading fiasco to an end and kill the project , and the Bank of England established a task force on securities settlement following an approach by the Stock Exchange , to consider best way forward for development of securities settlement , share registration and share transfer in the UK and to identify possible alternatives to Taurus , having regard to speed of implementation , cost , ownership , governance and financing , as well as system structure , to recommend a preferred option and to make recommendations for managing its implementation and to report to the governor of the Bank of England by the end of June 1993 at the latest ; the abandonment of project , which cost the Exchange £75m and City firms preparing for it a lot more , cost 220 direct employees and another 130 contractors their jobs . |
| 18 | The abandonment of the project , which cost the Exchange 75m and City firms preparing for it a lot more , cost 220 direct employees and another 130 contractors their jobs . |
| 19 | David Hume went further , transferring causal power from the world of objects to the mind , making of it a tendency of the mind to pass from the thing we call ‘ the cause ’ to the one we call ‘ the effect ’ . |
| 20 | It 's carrying with it a lot of soil , bits of rock , |
| 21 | The WEU , which began life in May 1955 , was in many ways an irritant to Britain , placing upon it a burden as great as membership of the EDC might have done , with the pledge to maintain British forces in West Germany . |
| 22 | It 's such a dangerous sort of life that one ca n't help thinking about it a bit . |
| 23 | It slid down the wall , leaving behind it a trail of dark brown juice , like bile . |
| 24 | His fingertip was gently following the curve of her brow , her cheek , her jaw , leaving behind it a trail of fire . |
| 25 | A few caskets were carried from the docked ship , each bearing upon it a stasis box wrapped in a yellow banner embroidered with fanged skulls , protecting the precious Progenoid organs . |
| 26 | The procedure is first for the Pastoral Committee of the Diocese to consult the Council for Places of Worship , receiving from it a report which sets out the architectural qualities and historic interest of the building . |
| 27 | They 're concentrating on it a bit now , are n't they . |