Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the earlier authors ' comments on the matter , at the moment of death the cat is not thinking of its human owners ' feelings , but simply about how it can protect itself from the terrifying , unseen danger that is causing it so much pain . |
| 2 | And almost I am tempted to make my advice about writing it just one word — Do n't . |
| 3 | It is easiest to measure the length of the strip by placing the tin on the paper and turning it over four times — mark each corner of the tin on the paper with a pencil , for folding . |
| 4 | The Dutch government is introducing tax incentives for companies which buy electric vehicles : they will be allowed to depreciate them faster than conventional vehicles , setting the entire cost against tax in the first year rather than spreading it over five years . |
| 5 | Move the leg forwards and back slightly , 20 times , moving it only 3 ins ( 7.6cm ) each time . |
| 6 | Extend the top leg forwards as far as possible and then stretch it forwards and back 30 times , moving it about 3 ins ( 7.6cm ) each time . |
| 7 | They 're having it earlier this afternoon |
| 8 | This happened in Benjamin Britten 's The Prince of the Pagodas and , originally , in the Red Knight 's dance in Checkmate ( Arthur Bliss later shortened it , giving it much greater strength and significance ) . |
| 9 | The product however had begun to lag behind its 2D counterparts and this update brings it back in line , giving it very similar features to those in Release 2.4 — hence the jump in the numbering from 3.1+ to 3.4 . |
| 10 | The 78 , which appeared at the beginning of the 1977 season , was one of Chapman 's greatest and most revolutionary contributions to motor racing and the concept which it employed ( the so-called Venturi effect , by which the air was channelled under rather than over the car , thus giving it infinitely superior down-force and road-holding ability ) set the standard for many years to come . |
| 11 | This produces 58 bhp , giving it quite lively performance and a top speed of 96mph in return for good diesel economy of 64.2 mpg at a constant 56 mph on the official Government figures . |
| 12 | I was quite prepared to die without giving it too much thought , you understand — and suddenly I find I 've got up steam and I 've puff-puffed past the station labelled ‘ Death ’ and the track lies all before me , unsignposted . ’ |
| 13 | Having established that his ears are , indeed , in working order , he 'll kick in with the kind of first-rate , imaginative and , in a very real sense , creative idea for which accountants are renowned , such as : ‘ Have you considered running it over four pages ? |
| 14 | ‘ And we 're doing it again next year for GCE , ’ drawled a voice that Toby recognized as Hilary Frome 's . |
| 15 | It was primarily management 's responsibility to help workers to do their jobs in a high-quality way ( " doing it right first time " ) , by identifying the sources of error and planning the production process to prevent their occurence. 7 Constant striving for improvement : TQM is a never-ending struggle to an unattainable goal . |
| 16 | Ooh I 've , yeah , I 've been doing it about three years . |
| 17 | So you got the whole spectrum of , or if you 're just doing it like French dictation , it wo n't , if words tend to just , to just be spoken language , right through to an immensely detailed erm , attempts to put everything down , including tone of the voice , and all these other ones which are extremely difficult to I think you noticed that I was standing looking at the transcriptions near each team . |
| 18 | Reading it again that night , I discovered that , as usually happens , my motives were mixed . |
| 19 | Of the film 's religious imagery , he says : ‘ We talked about the Fifty-First psalm ( which is sung by one of the kitchen boys ) ; it does n't give you many clues , but I was reading it again this morning and it started making more sense . |
| 20 | We got them to show us Moonstruck three times , enjoying it more each time as we anticipated our favourite scenes . |
| 21 | The shackling of a West German military contribution to NATO would have to be achieved by placing it under non-German control . |
| 22 | Due to an anticipated 50 per cent fall in natural gas sales to Argentina , however , fuel prices would rise 43 per cent , making it likely that inflation would exceed the planned 10 per cent for 1992 . |
| 23 | The day ended as it had begun with a win for Carl Fogarty , with Robert Dunlop getting his hat-trick , and Jim Moodie , making it only three winners for the seven races . |
| 24 | You 're hitting it too hard Grace . |