Example sentences of "[conj] it [be] [v-ing] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I could do was write a letter , and by the time I 'd written a letter and it got where it was going and a reply got back , a week or two weeks could have gone by . |
| 2 | It seems to have stopped growing , although it is swimming and eating O.K. |
| 3 | Although it was raining and freezing cold outside , we all got ready and pulled ourselves into our wet suits and set off for the river . |
| 4 | A flashing heart tells you that it 's working and the numerals show your pulse rate in beats per minute ( bpm ) . |
| 5 | Remember that it 's weighing and measuring day the day after tomorrow , so please be super-good today ! |
| 6 | Thus the statement ‘ It is raining ’ expresses the speaker 's belief that it is raining and the statement ‘ Bertrand Russell was a writer of short stories ’ expresses the speaker 's belief that Bertrand Russell was a writer of short stories . |
| 7 | Now remember that a helicopter , unlike a conventional aircraft , does not necessarily have to be pointing in the direction that it is moving and that the pilot must tell the tail where to go at all times . |
| 8 | We may be handling a horse and get a feeling that we are in tune with the horse and that it is accepting and even anticipating whatever we want to do : we are in rapport with the horse , and are communicating with the horse but in a way that is not through the other senses . |
| 9 | The important thing is to recognise that it is happening and take the relevant action . |
| 10 | About 5 o'clock on the morning of 8th October , 1835 , he was one of a group of men working underground when the rock above them began to ‘ groan and grumble ’ , indicating to the experienced miners that it was settling and about to fall on top of them . |
| 11 | It was thus inevitable that whenever the official limit was declared higher than the 50 hectolitre/7,500 kilogram mark , Champagne 's critics would declare that it was over-producing and its reputation would be tarnished . |
| 12 | The government said that it was reorganizing and restoring morale in national anti-drug institutions . |
| 13 | Both Jessica and Nadea seemed to agree that it was fitting and appropriate when I told them my first choice would be to serve with the Royal Canadian Air Force . |
| 14 | And there 's erm mm oh erm there 's there 's erm a boy with a big umbrella who 's got , and it 's raining and he 's got , I did n't know April showers were like this . |
| 15 | There 's gold and it 's haunting and haunting |
| 16 | See so it 's just by learning the pattern it 's like say if you were you were playing football every time somebody every time the ball came towards you you had to learn all about the way the ball goes Oh it 's you know it 's slowing down cos the grass is wet and it 's curling and things like that . |
| 17 | or a bit of mould in one of the sockets it used to click all the phones when anybody made a call and er , all , all sorts of things that , I would of thought ah there 's a faulty phone somewhere and it 's degenerating and er we went round and waste every single one out , every single one , went to this extension pressed line three , play it down and the phone rang , I thought right it 's not a phone , I changed the cabinet , I changed all the cards and the cards in one big one , I had one three |
| 18 | Had a very , very good over from Bill Tufnell there , it 's always a bit tricky when you come on to bowl and it 's turning and it 's a long day ahead and you , you 're expected to get hissed and you expect to get hissed , and you can get very impatient when they do n't come , but he 's got one now , he 's got , now he 's bowled well all morning now , he 's bowled almost for an hour , but he 's got that one wicket and he , that over was full of confidence , he tossed one up , misjudged the length and got into a bit of a tangle and then he bowled a quicker one which tried to cut , he then misjudged the pace and he could off nick it to the , a very , very good over and he 's bowling with , with great confidence at the moment . |
| 19 | They will be talking as they eat and it 's distracting and embarrassing to have to juggle something fussy and awkward while you 're trying to make new friends and business contacts . |
| 20 | So you would n't see it and it 's running and there 's a mike there . |
| 21 | Germany has sixty five percent and it is falling and France sixty percent and now also falling . |
| 22 | And it were a-raining and a-raining ! |
| 23 | Sigarup picked up a piece of unlit jharo and held it in the fire until it was blazing and drips of flaming resin fell from it , spluttering to the ground . |
| 24 | It may not sound much , but if it is raining and you are wet and tired , it becomes a big job . |
| 25 | Again , we assert it since we accept ( i ) an independent nomic conditional roughly to the effect that in the world as it is , and within certain large limits as it might be , if it is raining and certain other things are the case , then the balcony is wet , and we also accept ( ii ) that those other things are the case . |
| 26 | What is the explanation of why I am right to conclude , as I am , that if it is raining and certain other things are true , the balcony is wet and , in brief , that it would be wet no matter what else were true ? |
| 27 | The user should close down the LIFESPAN system if it is running and ensure that none of the other stand-alone LIFESPAN utilities are running . |
| 28 | The user should close down the LIFESPAN system if it is running and make sure that neither the Hard Copy facility nor the Validation facility are running . |
| 29 | Even if it 's raining and even if you have no stomach to work ? |
| 30 | Well if it 's raining and stuff yeah . |