Example sentences of "it [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He kicked the chair aside with a violence that sent it crashing across the floor . |
| 2 | Dropping the useless stems , she used all her strength to swing her briefcase in a wide arc , bringing it crashing into the man 's stomach . |
| 3 | He suddenly grabbed the beer can and hurled it against the wall then upturned the table , sending it crashing against the cooker . |
| 4 | Beatle Paul McCartney 's wife , LINDA McCARTNEY , holds 38th slot with £39.2 million , most of it stemming from an inheritance from the Eastman/Kodak fortune . |
| 5 | Smell it hanging in the air , |
| 6 | Born , they held it like a long skinned thing and for a moment she stared at it hanging in the air not knowing if it was alive or dead , good or bad , not believing it was over . |
| 7 | does she agree that there 's something bizarre in er I certainly agree successful experiment it bringing to an end because it 's a successful experiment , er clearly the policy is only to continue with unsuccessful experiments . |
| 8 | This wo n't significantly affect the water flow , but should prevent it sticking in the future . |
| 9 | She could imagine it clanging across the hall , up the stairway , along the draughty corridors , around the drawing-room and out through the open windows . |
| 10 | ‘ Well that 's the way things are goin' over here , and that 's the way he sees it goin' in the future , under the Government constraints he outlined at that meetin' . ’ |
| 11 | The next day Julia woke with all the trivial but uncomfortable symptoms of a developing cold , and she wondered whether she had caught it dawdling by the edge of the icy lagoon . |
| 12 | A highly polished table under a mirror , perhaps a bowl of flowers beside it reflecting in the table . |
| 13 | I 've put it resting on the dish so that any acid from it does n't get on to that bench there . |
| 14 | Stepping down at the end , he lay on the bed of nails and rolled across it to the foot of the ladder , which he climbed , pausing on each blade to detach a yellow paper prayer flag and send it fluttering to the ground . |
| 15 | Firemen secured the bus with ropes to stop it tumbling over the edge before escorting the petrified passengers to safety . |
| 16 | Her outstretched hand disturbed a fragment of loose rock , sending it tumbling over the precipice ; for one hideous moment she fancied the entire ledge was on the move and about to hurl her into the chasm . |
| 17 | Yeah , but I mean , I 'm gon na take the heat off it 's pointless it blasting till the end |
| 18 | Sometimes you would see people who lived in it walking past the camp . |
| 19 | I mean he for him to see it walking along the road if there was anything . |
| 20 | Are we talking about just small businesses or is it happening across the board ? |
| 21 | I certainly never pictured it as being the same operation acting on different pieces until I actually saw it happening on the cube . |
| 22 | The only time that you will hear about it is whe , if you have the television on and you see it happening on the parliament and on your papers . |
| 23 | Even if you decide you do n't have a problem now , it makes sense to do all you can to prevent it happening in the future . |
| 24 | Experts say it 's vital they prevent it happening in the future . |
| 25 | They walked regardless of the weather : on early spring mornings when the sky was remote and pale as a plover 's egg ; on stormy autumn afternoons when they felt they could reach up and touch the lowering clouds that covered the land like a bruise ; and on frozen winter days when the sky was a white membrane stretched so tight that they could imagine it cracking with the cold . |
| 26 | The circumstances are : where the adjudications authority failed to take into account specific evidence before it relating to a claim ; where a member of staff did not submit or record relevant evidence ; or where an adjudication officer overlooked and misconstrued a provision in legislation or case law . |
| 27 | rainbow climbing high , everyone can see it climbing over the sky , rainbow , here 's a rainbow yeah today poor |
| 28 | Green blood spurted wildly into the air , much of it landing into the stew pot where it fizzed and crackled like little gun shots . |
| 29 | As Sister Cecilia was to say to her , one could live without reading , writing , or arithmetic , sewing , singing or geography ; and yes — there would be a twinkle in her eye — with some , even without the good God ; but one could n't live without food and without those who knew how to make it appetising to the tongue . |
| 30 | Erm how 'd you find it living on the money get on Social Security ? |