Example sentences of "it [vb past] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shelter that Jenny had found for me was in Camden Town , not too far away , so in order not to arrive there before it got going for the evening , I dawdled a little , window-shopping . |
| 2 | It was n't long after the ball got rolling , together with the head of the Eighties opinion formers , that it got going in the wrong direction . |
| 3 | Reading was difficult for me , especially when it involved looking at the chalkboard , and I soon found myself being classed as ‘ thick ’ . |
| 4 | She made several ‘ women 's ’ films for Rank , including STREET CORNER ( 1953 ) about the women police in Chelsea , which she always cited as a particularly enjoyable experience since it involved working with a mainly female crew and cast . |
| 5 | He had partly explained why he needed her help , how it involved complying with the terms of his uncle 's will , although he had n't admitted yet why he needed the money so desperately . |
| 6 | This time Mrs Ireland had to make her decision alone and that was horrendously difficult to do , especially as it involved deciding about the future care of her husband . |
| 7 | The authority said yesterday that the delays arose because the research amounted to what scientists called a ‘ blue skies ’ project because it involved going beyond the present capacity of the reactor design . |
| 8 | And all the birds that saw it stopped singing upon the instant . |
| 9 | It came crashing through the window . |
| 10 | And that control became positively wondrous when you consider the other altered circumstance — in Dublin , the Australians were operating before rugby forgot its central themes , before it came charging off the tracks and awarded the put-in to the other team in indeterminate rucks and mauls — turning rugby into an uncontrolled and frothy nothing . |
| 11 | It delayed attacking till the following morning , and a calm during the night enabled the French ships , showing no lights , to make their escape and simply drift down Channel , only to be overtaken around midnight by a ferocious north-east gale . |
| 12 | After three dormant years it began humming like a computer , sucking in information of which it had been starved , until my head began to hurt physically with the effort . |
| 13 | He put the pan back on the heat , turned the steak over , and it began bubbling in a controlled manner . |
| 14 | He said that it needed strengthening in the northern province . |
| 15 | She pushed the yoke forward and the plane 's nose dipped as it started descending towards the runway . |
| 16 | Did n't realise until it started howling like a demented banshee ! ’ |
| 17 | It started campaigning against the council plans when they emerged last year . |
| 18 | We only knew for certain that there was something strange afoot when we heard the sounds of a train being marshalled and it started coming towards the hostel , what is more terrifying was that it was coming on a non-existent track ! |
| 19 | ‘ We had over two inches of frosty snow on our sleeping bags as it kept blowing in the tent and we could n't close the door properly . |
| 20 | ‘ It kept coming through the sun roof and at one point I heard the roof caving in , ’ he said from his hospital bed . |
| 21 | You would n't call it the best buildup you ever seen and after a little bit of scrappy play which Pisa failed to get the ball away , it fell inviting on the edge of the area , and he struck it with all the confidence and aplomb a a player who 's been planting 'em in the back of the net all season . |
| 22 | It fell writhing to the ground . |
| 23 | Adventure might seem exciting , but all too soon it could seem like a prison sentence , especially when it meant living aboard a ship with all manner of rogues and scoundrels . |
| 24 | Even the Romanian press admitted that progress was not universally welcomed when it meant uprooting oneself and family from the home which had sheltered generations , particularly not when it meant moving into a block-house . |
| 25 | He did not object to fulfilling her ‘ romantic notions about this and that ’ if it meant searching for a butter churn and separator but he drew the line at finding her a hacking pony . |
| 26 | Young Victor , a Romantic from birth , was excited when the family was given free seats for the theatre for every night of its stay , less excited when he found out that the programme never changed , so that it meant sitting through the same melodrama every night for a month . |
| 27 | The boxes inside the vault looked fascinating and she badly wanted to know what lay inside box number forty-seven , but not if it meant going into the sinister little room on her own . |
| 28 | No you have to get a bucket of water and flush it with a bucket , what we did have on the sink in the brew house was a a , a about a couple of foot square and on the top of that was an old pump handle , well that water used to drain all the rainwater from the roof all rainwater from the roof used to drain into that well that was sunk in the brewers , so that we could pump water out of the little well , so that we could have soft water for doing the washing , rainwater , otherwise it meant going to the standpipe in the , out in the yard to get your water for washing . |
| 29 | It meant fixing on the smiles for the photographers … who were not so much interested in the intricacies of skating as Christopher Dean 's private life recently under scrutiny in the tabloid press . |
| 30 | On this occasion it meant working through a weekend developing special colours for a Royal carpet . |