Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill Wood of Durham called about it , desisted from hurling it in this direction and merely gave the fascinating information that it has been about for 1,500 years and started off in Anglo Saxon as sacleas , meaning ‘ without strife ’ . |
| 2 | Will the right hon. Gentleman confirm that the Government — without announcing it in any manifesto — have increased national insurance charges by 40 per cent ? |
| 3 | But if Mr Menzies had thought of this he must have been keeping it for another Sunday . |
| 4 | In many respects deconstruction has not been avidly employed in analysing Renaissance texts and there is a certain contradiction in employing it in this study . |
| 5 | Erm we feel rather badly about not returning it to this person who made it for us |
| 6 | but , because I 've been knocking it off that bit earlier |
| 7 | Sorry if you take catty as the para now , then D P are n't actually , the reason D P sent the paper questionnaire is to just double check that all the columns and everything are laid out in the correct way are n't they and then checking it for that reason , whereas they are actually doing it on something like Kathy themselves so they , there is n't the same approval going on . |
| 8 | Ideally , you 'll try to absorb all the information here by applying it to all keys . |
| 9 | The fact that the First Directive was formally concerned only with restrictions on foreign exchange transactions did not prevent the court , in Brugnoni v. Cassa di Risparmio di Genova e Imperia ( Case 157/85 ) [ 1986 ] E.C.R. 2013 , 2030 , para. 22 , from applying it to any kind of obstacles constituting a ‘ hindrance ’ to the widest liberalisation of those capital movements which the First Directive sought to liberalise in full . |
| 10 | He turned , the light from outside silhouetting his face , robbing it of all expression . |
| 11 | That 's very different from say er destroying this book and replacing it with this book . |
| 12 | Instinctively she ran a hand through her dishevelled hair , smoothing it into some kind of order . |
| 13 | Oh er they 're for some job at Street , they 're wanting it for some job or other . |
| 14 | This is a statement of law as it should be , rather than as it is , but there is nothing to stop the courts developing it in this direction . |
| 15 | There 's no mathematical way of defining it at that point . |
| 16 | A model of the language is created by training it on some text that is already available . |
| 17 | In the following example program segment , AND is used as a bitwise operator to remove the most significant bit of a byte read from a file before writing it to another file . |
| 18 | That this is the common apprehension of mankind with regard to perception is evident from the manner of expressing it in all languages . |
| 19 | But this , he says , would be fatal to the attempt to know ‘ I ’ by description : ‘ It would obviously be a vicious circle if I described ‘ I ’ as being that bundle of states of which my use of the word is a member , and then distinguished that bundle from other groups by describing it as that group of mental states which are states of ‘ I ’ . ’ |
| 20 | It is worth describing it at such length so that readers who have not read Tolkien 's ‘ minor ’ works might develop some idea of Lewis 's importance as Tolkien 's ‘ onlie begetter ’ or ‘ miglior fabbro ’ , for there can be very little doubt that it was Lewis 's friendship and encouragement which led Tolkien to write the works which made his name with the public ; just as it was Tolkien 's friendship which released in Lewis wells of creativity which had remained ( though he was so naturally fluent ) mysteriously dry . |
| 21 | Eagle 's Nest Direct was the first Very Severe rock climb in the British Isles and a route so serious then that to contemplate leading it at that time of primitive rope technique meant you also contemplated death . |
| 22 | Her tail burned like a furnace ; and yet she was presenting it for more torment . |
| 23 | The historical process of transforming the world , making it a better place , recovering a pre-lapsarian global Eden in its pristine simplicity , will end up with people selling it to each other by the dollar , pound or yen . |
| 24 | That is their own fault because according to , there was a programme on there and it was saying they , they must be selling it to these firms that recy , that use it |
| 25 | It was but er the market was so low that he decided not to well I do n't think he could get a buyer actually , it 's just stood there so he he he let it out rather than have it stood there with the option for us to buy it but I say now the prices are lower he 's not keen on selling it at that price . |
| 26 | Her virtuosity with language is not in doubt ( and all credit to her translator for rendering it with such vitality ) . |
| 27 | Back in 1974 , the idea was to avoid turning it into another Costa of cheap , pack-'em-in highrises , and concentrate instead on upmarket accommodation . |
| 28 | Should the network of stones be damaged the fine balance of energies could collapse in upon itself and consume Ulthuan in a holocaust of raw power , turning it into another Realm of Chaos which the Dark Elves would return to claim for their Chaos Gods at last . |
| 29 | Holding it with both hands the man took a bite , slowly chewing , scrutinising what was left , relishing the decision of where to bite next . |
| 30 | ‘ Would you like a cup of coffee ? ’ he said to her at a station , and she grinned at him over the cardboard beaker , holding it with both hands . |