Example sentences of "it [verb] [v-ing] [prep] " 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 | But I never expected the reaction it got coming from me . |
| 4 | How how does that co you spoke about friendliness and warmth here , How does it compare working with the other places you 've worked at ? |
| 5 | It goes wandering through the files unchecked , pulling open the drawers and scattering the papers , writing wild minutes of its own . |
| 6 | Ooh I 've got one another , it goes rolling on the river right |
| 7 | In 1979 , the Home Office persuaded the radio conference to allow it to continue operating in these frequencies until the end of 1989 . |
| 8 | More specifically , it attacked engrossing of holdings and provided penalties for this . |
| 9 | Because it involves looking at text and response on the three different linguistic levels , teachers find themselves thinking and talking about language itself quite differently . |
| 10 | For the first time Aranyos seemed uncertain how to proceed , sucking his lip thoughtfully for several seconds before continuing , ‘ It involves looking into a curious business which could prove to be a complete dead end , namely an attack on a girl in the Bauernmarkt last Saturday evening . |
| 11 | Erm and it , it was us , I mean not only do we , I mean we develop her a a response , that means , we , we work with Councillor 's we work with Senior Officer 's in other departments and we look at the policy angles , like for example with , with that piece of legislation , when , when we first realised what the impact for that legislation was , it was gon na mean that we were ten million pound short in our housing money basically , that was , that was what it looked like on the surface and you think oh my god how you gon na make up for that short fall , that would mean an eleven pound a week rise in rent , that 's what it worked out as , so , well we ca n't do that , how , and then you have to look at the legislation and you say what are the loop holes here , and erm , and it involves contacting outside organisations and getting there opinion and finding out what other Council 's are doing and responding to things like this , and we did come up with a way , of , of reducing that deficit , but that 's the kind of thing we do . |
| 12 | The dislike of enquiry desk duty , because of its boredom , is thus compounded because it involves dealing with these sorts of incident . |
| 13 | However , our descriptive task will be more difficult , as it involves dealing with greater complexity of variation than would be the case in more focused communities , and it has to be carried out at a very fine-grained level . |
| 14 | Such activity is difficult ( even repugnant ) , for it involves struggling with mental symbols which enable the thinker to hold some entity — object , property , proposition , world — in mind . |
| 15 | It involves thinking about differences in ‘ level ’ which is a familiar though complex concept . |
| 16 | Learning how to solve problems is a more complex activity in that it involves thinking at a higher level . |
| 17 | In addition to its value for historical purposes , and the fact that it involves learning through doing , the practice of oral history offers many bonuses in respect of personal and social skills ( especially the skill of learning to listen ) . |
| 18 | If they dream up a bright profit-winning idea , even if it involves walking in the dirty waters of pornography as the 0898 service does , the Government are unable or unwilling to do anything about it , even over a six-year period . |
| 19 | It involves supposing that Scaevola practised a healthy indifference to linguistic distinctions held valid and significant by his contemporaries and successors in Roman jurisprudence . |
| 20 | It involves studying for a qualifying law degree and then proceeding direct to the Legal Practice Course , which is the professional training for solicitors . |
| 21 | Very little to recommend it as it involves turning through 360° . |
| 22 | erm er and it involves going to the lab and sitting around for about a couple of hours while they feed you a bit of sugar and then take some blood tests every half hour . |
| 23 | It can be done , though it involves going into a little detail from time to time about points of central importance , and it needs simplifications which trouble an author 's respect for exact truth and may appal an unsympathetic expert . |
| 24 | Here it sits waiting for a dose of stress to weaken your immune system when out it pops . |
| 25 | In places , it defies understanding to this day . |
| 26 | ( It ceased operating in 1985 . ) |
| 27 | Our clients understand it ceased trading on December 24 and it follows that the reference NatWest gave was worthless . ’ |
| 28 | This would certainly have been within the power of an omnipotent being , but if he had started it off in such an incomprehensible way , why did he choose to let it evolve according to laws that we could understand ? |
| 29 | It made coping with locally severe unemployment difficult , since only the resources of the rate-paying parishioners could be drawn on . |
| 30 | Lindsay , 38 , of Knowle , near Solihull , West Midlands , said later : ‘ It beats shopping at Tesco and certainly livened up a dull afternoon . ’ |