Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] it [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , just leaving it to the baby , or making it dependent on the baby 's survival . |
| 2 | Try wearing it belted over a pair of tailored trousers , for a smart look , or leaving it open over casual separates . |
| 3 | Once she was certain that the house was asleep she had climbed lightly out of bed , dipping her face into the bowl of washing water on the table near the door and dabbing it dry with a hand towel . |
| 4 | Tolonen gave a short laugh then glanced briefly at the Captain , before taking the clipboard back from his daughter and holding it open at the place she indicated . |
| 5 | He put the letter aside and took a fresh piece of parchment , smoothing it out and rubbing it clear with a pumice stone . |
| 6 | This characterizes the prey assemblages of the three larger species of canid studied , but the bat-eared fox has only 19 per cent of the incisors in its prey assemblages lightly digested , the lowest of any of the mammals and making it equivalent to categories 1 or 2 . |
| 7 | By creating a mode of Repertory Grid Technique specific to visual art and making it available through the personal computer , this area full of complexity and uncertainty might come to be both better understood and more widely valued . |
| 8 | Porter Paints is relaunching its entire architectural colour system and making it available to sister Courtaulds Coatings companies in Brazil and Canada . |
| 9 | transferring that knowledge and making it available in a symbolic form amenable to investigation ; |
| 10 | There was no point in transforming Paris and making it easy of access for visitors if there was nothing to see or do when one got there , and so the Court was to be made open as well as brilliant . |
| 11 | The extension of the YTS into a two year scheme and making it compulsory for those not in education through removing entitlements to other benefits , means that in future there may be no such thing as a ‘ young worker ’ or a ‘ young unemployed ’ under the age of eighteen . |
| 12 | Grass and weeds are growing onto the footway and making it impossible for parents with pushchairs to use if . |
| 13 | Shore significantly developed a style of playing by which the trumpet escaped from the restrictions of a purely military style and took its place in England as an orchestral instrument , so giving valuable stimulus to Henry Purcell [ q.v. ] and making it possible for English trumpeters to meet the requirements of the music of G. F. Handel [ q.v . ] . |
| 14 | If a commitment to good schools and parental choice means anything it must mean encouraging good schools to get better and making it possible for parents to send their children there . |
| 15 | ‘ Exercise is good for it , ’ he said , the familiarity of the Butts lost in the fog and making it necessary for him to still proceed carefully . |
| 16 | If it is possible to use the same basic pattern for a number of guides , this has the advantage of both saving the librarian 's time and making it easier for the user to transfer search techniques from one discipline to another . |
| 17 | The Scottish Institute has made an urgent plea to Government to reduce the legislative burdens on small businesses by freeing them from the obligation of a statutory audit , and making it easier for them to disincorporate . |
| 18 | The government 's plan is that tax-dodging is suddenly to be made dramatically more difficult , by reorganising the tax-collecting system and making it easier for the taxman to spot the dodgers . |
| 19 | That is why the IAEA approached France and the United Kingdom asking for assistance in removing the material and making it safe in specialised facilities . |
| 20 | Here , bacteria get to work on it , softening it up and making it ready for chewing . |
| 21 | We 're not pressing teams and making it difficult for them , which has previously been the basis of our success . |
| 22 | Clare 's solicitor explained to her that men often forced their wives to return by refusing to grant a divorce and making it difficult for them to obtain money — even when it was awarded by a court . |
| 23 | The rain had almost stopped , but various projections over the pavement in Fleet Street dripped on Dyson as he passed , wetting the lenses of his spectacles and making it difficult for him to see where he was going . |
| 24 | There is a material difference between merely exempting certain conduct from criminal penalties and making it lawful in the full sense . |
| 25 | ‘ So I 'll worry about that when I 'm thirty , ’ Ruth retorted , hitching up her bikini-top before loosening her long jet hair from a silk bandeau and shaking it free around her golden shoulders . |
| 26 | The Charles Bal and Sir Robert Sale were beating about in the darkness for the whole of the twenty-seventh , and ash rained down on them so steadily that the crews had to spend hours shovelling it off the decks and shaking it clear of sails and rigging . |
| 27 | Marjorie laughed , and though she was very kind , washing the lettuce and leaving it ready in the colander and telling her how to cook the asparagus and make a butter sauce , Emmie felt humiliated . |
| 28 | Fire horror : A woman has died from burns after apparently dousing herself with petrol and setting it alight at an address in Bell Street , Hindley , near Wigan . |
| 29 | Still he knelt in front of her , and Maria sat forward , lifting a hand and laying it open-palmed against the side of his face for a moment before tracing the angle of his cheek with gentle fingers . |
| 30 | She had got as far as pulling out her suitcase , which looked scruffier than ever now that her eyes had accustomed themselves to the comfortable luxury of Luke Hunter 's flat , and laying it open on the bed before something inside her rebelled . |