Example sentences of "it [verb] [pron] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it got him thinking positive . |
| 2 | " At least it got me reading , " she said . |
| 3 | And it got me thinking that there must be thousands of people up and down the country doing worthwhile things to protect our environment and wildlife who go unrecognised . |
| 4 | ‘ After we defeated defending champions Castlerock in the semi-finals , he thumped a table with his two All-Ireland Senior Cup medals before the final saying … ‘ this is what it is all about ’ … and it got us going again against Warrenpoint . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ All right , so you made a mistake , but it got you going , did n't it ? |
| 6 | It moves me playing it and it upsets me playing it , it 's very upsetting to play Alfie , because A he 's such a disastrous man as a person d you know you think oh god I do n't really wan na be playing this man for sixteen weeks but the part is so wonderful and the play is so rich that you ca n't help s sort of s submitting to it and putting yourself in the position of being a masochist I suppose . |
| 7 | The third thing about that is that it represents us saying continuum . |
| 8 | It entertained me watching you try . |
| 9 | I ca n't , you ca n't , cos they wo n't let you take time off in lieu unless if it involves them having to employ somebody else to cover |
| 10 | Sympathy involves ‘ feeling sorry ’ for the other person — or perhaps , it involves our imagining how we would feel if we were experiencing what is happening to him . |
| 11 | Literature is based on ‘ the very plurality of meanings ’ ( 1966 : 50 ) ; or , put in a slightly different way which nicely reverses an old critical saw , ‘ a work is ‘ eternal ’ , not because it imposes one meaning on different men , but because it suggests different meanings to one man' ( p.51 ) . |
| 12 | Not that it stopped her talking about the Jesus who was the centre of her life . |
| 13 | ‘ It stopped me having a normal childhood . |
| 14 | It stopped them reacting violently because it stopped them reacting at all . ’ |
| 15 | It stopped them reacting violently because it stopped them reacting at all . ’ |
| 16 | Colonel Goreng was moving away from the details of the operation to talk about the Western concept of ‘ human rights ’ , to mock it , to say what a ridiculous shibboleth it was when it stopped you defending the rights of those who were n't criminals , when Mrs Goreng knocked on the door . |
| 17 | I mean it 's , it 's er , it needs somebody working at it full time |
| 18 | That is left for members of the host community to do , as it busies itself ghettoizing the minority ; and as it ghettoizes it mumbles , and if you listen carefully you can just discern beneath the self-righteousness , the self-congratulation , the following : ‘ Okay , okay , so you were having a hard time in your own country . |
| 19 | But it has one redeeming feature , for the claim that paperwork needs to be completed is used as an excuse to avoid other types of police work which are disliked even more . |
| 20 | But all the evidence suggests that it has one staring error — the researchers ' names . |
| 21 | The first thing that George found was that the work of fracture of wood was quite exceptionally high , although of course it has nothing resembling a dislocation mechanism to help it . |
| 22 | just getting it keeping it moving . |
| 23 | I think that 's important ; just playing E and A does n't do you much good — it limited my playing so much … ’ |
| 24 | I think it helped her having something like that to do . |
| 25 | And it frightens me seeing the youngsters coming out carrying . |
| 26 | It allows anyone paying PAYE , either through their earnings or their pension , to give up to £600 a year , free of tax , to charities of their choice . |
| 27 | Sometimes the duchess held the syringe all the way through a play , claiming it prevented her getting a headache in the stuffy theatre . |
| 28 | Probably kill them , on the head well would be my problem to do it see myself coming off |
| 29 | I tell ya , it threw me having those tormented eyes of Clift staring just above me . ’ |
| 30 | For it sees him changing his mind about the adaptiveness of structural change rather than about species formation as such . |