Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , he was keeping it a secret until the day he moved out . |
| 2 | She kicked out again , this time cracking it a couple of feet from the juncture with the adjacent wall . |
| 3 | The earliest large-scale sculpture we have in limestone or marble does not go with the earliest Daedalic ; but the wide acceptance of such an individual style is most naturally explained by supposing it the creation of one artist or school producing major works at major sanctuaries . |
| 4 | It simply means thinking a little about your diet and daily routine , and improving it a bit at a time . |
| 5 | AT&T has come up with the ComputerWatch service , calling it a breakthrough for system security administration . |
| 6 | The 29-year-old Motherwell man , who has made an art form of fouling up on the big occasion , acknowledged that he too came close to calling it a day after the Olympics . |
| 7 | ( As I can speak of red without calling it the colour of blood . ) |
| 8 | ( As I can speak of red without calling it the colour of blood . ) ’ |
| 9 | The hon. Member for Rugby and Kenilworth stood up and praised it to the heavens — they all did , calling it the flagship of their policy . |
| 10 | Aenarion opposed this , calling it the council of despair . |
| 11 | One of Ariel 's songs which he appended went like this , and sometimes Serafine sang it , and Xanthe and Miranda both enjoyed singing it with her , calling it the song of Manjiku : |
| 12 | Incidentally — ’ he patted me on the knee' — we 're calling it the Infenestration of Leytonstone back at the Shop . |
| 13 | They 're calling it the curse of the L-plate . |
| 14 | We 're talking about a thousand covers , cos the actual extra cost of print once once you start printing it the run on cost is is negligible . |
| 15 | With these , the total number of seats controlled by the new government was 67 , giving it a majority of seven seats . |
| 16 | He predicted that his party would pick up a fourth seat in the Lower Falls and hold its three seats in Upper Falls — giving it a total of 10 seats on the council . |
| 17 | Around town , the ECC runs solely on its batteries , giving it a range of about 50 miles and zero emissions . |
| 18 | The schoolmaster then spent an endless period fussily sorting out his things — extracting a folded newspaper and a small bag of plums from his case , arranging the case on the rack , examining the seat minutely for anything unpleasant and giving it a brush with the back of his hand , folding his jacket and his jumper with ritualistic care , adjusting the window in consultation with the lady , but without reference to me or to the young Swede , getting his case down again for some forgotten item , checking his hankie , readjusting the window . |
| 19 | And Jim was giving it a drink of water . |
| 20 | One religious who responded to God 's calling to celibacy explained : ‘ Chastity does not consist of deadening our heart but rather in giving it a liberty of love , a single aim , a transparency to God . |
| 21 | Instead it has , for instance , taken a $400 million shareholding ( 6 per cent of issued share capital ) in the traded stock of DeBeers Consolidated the diamond marketing company , and two seats on DeBeers ' Board , thus indirectly giving it a shareholding in the giant Anglo-American mining house . |
| 22 | Granted that it is possible to initiate the civilisation of a child by giving it a knowledge of right and wrong , the question arises ‘ How does this knowledge become an automatic power of conscience which enables or compels the child , and later the adult , to act accordingly ? ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been giving it a lot of thought , ’ he says slowly , chewing on the pipe , and smoothing the glossy black hair above the drooping face . |
| 24 | ‘ No , but I 've been giving it a lot of thought , and it seems to me that the person who fits the bill is … ’ |
| 25 | Gold made up less than a quarter of the Company 's exports from West Africa ; its charter recognized recent changes in trading patterns by laying down that the Company was to provide slaves for the English colonies in the Caribbean , and then giving it a monopoly of the trade . |
| 26 | As the Maastricht treaty gets ready to be flushed down the toilet , bands have already jumped the gun and gone Euro bonkers , the 12-starred flag having appeared on sleeves by The Divine Comedy , Simply Red , The Manics ( who , natch , could n't resist giving it a spot of slash ‘ n ’ burn ! ) and , most notably , Carter . |
| 27 | We can start giving it a lick of paint if you wan na start giving it a lick of paint . |
| 28 | We can start giving it a lick of paint if you wan na start giving it a lick of paint . |
| 29 | The big dyeing job was done twice a year at the hairdresser 's , but every month or so in between , Mrs Wormwood used to freshen it up by giving it a rinse in the washbasin with something called PLATINUM BLONDE HAIR-DYE EXTRA STRONG . |
| 30 | For although its twin-cam , straight-six 2960cc engine develops an impressive 231bhp at 6300rpm and 201lb ft of torque at 4600rpm , it has 3954lb of car to propel , giving it a power to weight ration of 129bhp/ton — unremarkable even by hot-hatch standards . |