Example sentences of "and [v-ing] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was unspeakably horrid to know that a great , slithering , inchoate mass of effluence was crawling and creeping and smelling its way towards you . |
| 2 | Nor did Gustave — shouting for wine , leading the animal round the room and bellowing its virtues : ‘ The young phenomenon is three years old , has passed the Académie de Métecine , and has been honoured by visits from several crowned heads , etc . ’ |
| 3 | Far from adopting a desktop solution like SVR4.2 , HP is streamlining and modularizing its own HP/UX to suit upcoming low-cost boxes . |
| 4 | The attraction of the SMG to the left was not , he believes , its commitment to monitoring racial violence and assisting its victims , but its second stated purpose of monitoring and campaigning on cases of alleged ‘ police harassment . ’ |
| 5 | The importance of a literary text as a representation of Elizabethan culture is clear , but defining and characterising its status as representation is not . |
| 6 | Eventually it was standing so well that the twins were able to play teasing games with it , pushing and pulling and slapping its sides , so sometimes it fell and sometimes it lurched from side to side and recovered . |
| 7 | It is difficult to imagine how a business could survive without knowing and forecasting its cash flow , fee invoicing , costs and receipts . |
| 8 | It would be an important step towards APR taking its place as a familiar comparative yardstick of credit costliness for the general run of consumers , and proving its value as a useful warning signal for high-cost credit deals . |
| 9 | It is in the seller 's interest to be selective in the information he gives the buyer , emphasizing the car 's good points and downplaying its defects , since this would raise the price he will receive . |
| 10 | The responsibility for making public policy rested with the government , a government derived from and resting its support upon a political party . |
| 11 | The Norwegian government must choose between continuing whaling and pursuing its aim of joining the European Community , according to EC Fisheries Commissioner , Manuel Martin . |
| 12 | In this capacity he played a prominent part in strengthening Parliament 's position in Wales , and maintaining its foothold in Ireland . |
| 13 | These , then , are the three groups that will evaluate the effectiveness of client participation , each in its own way and using its own peculiar criteria . |
| 14 | This is a delightful , funny , quirky old thriller , belting along on high octane enthusiasm and using its copious quantities of High Tech to dress up a more human story which gleefully sings the praises of Spirit over Machine . |
| 15 | Since both sites and nesting material are usually in short supply in a weaver bird colony , he often laboriously unravels his first attempt and using its constituents weaves it all over again in the same place . |
| 16 | Then , grasping the shoe and using its heel as a club , smite the biscuit tin lid with such force that it flies across the room and the egg plops into the glass , unbroken . |
| 17 | While one in ten agreed ICI was doing a fair share to reduce its impact and using its scientific skills to develop ‘ greener ’ products , the environment journalists still rated the company among the worst polluters — alongside British Coal , Fisons , British Nuclear Fuels and Powergen . |
| 18 | The tour set for twelve to eighteen months starting in summer 1993 and sales of a catalogue with colour reproductions of Barnes works , are expected to bring in funds for renovating the foundation 's gallery building and bringing its operations up to modern standards . |
| 19 | Still hot , and completing its thermosetting process , the GRP rod continues on its way along the length of the machine in the company of another 24 or so rods which have passed through a parallel course . |
| 20 | Walter Hilton is concerned in a much more abstract and organised way with the whole story of the Incarnation as a paradigm for understanding the self and realising its fullest potential . |
| 21 | The Hungarians reacted by calling for an emergency meeting of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe ( CSCE ) and submitting its case to the International Court of Justice . |
| 22 | Continuing or worsening strife could solidify covenant beliefs into a separate Ulster identity absolutely dominant over the British component , and demanding its own independent state form . |
| 23 | He had not wished to leave the Commons when he inherited his title in 1895 and thereafter he became an unceasing advocate of the House of Lords , defending its powers , resisting the sale of peerages , and demanding its reconstruction so that its powers could be restored . |
| 24 | For a time after his departure , the Abbey Mill site was run by William Rice and Co , and towards the end of its working life was running eight pairs of stones and producing its own electricity , using a water turbine and two of the remaining waterwheels . |
| 25 | IBM Corp subsidiary Cadam is forsaking its Blue-only bailiwick and porting its CAD Micro Cadam software to Sparcstations , planning to ship in December . |
| 26 | He smiled , holding the hollowed column lovingly between his hands and smoothing his fingers over the spiralling pattern of the wu-tu , the ‘ five noxious creatures ’ — toad , scorpion , snake , centipede and gecko — then drew it on , easing himself into its oiled soft-leather innards and fastening its leather straps about his waist . |
| 27 | She sighed , then twisted on her stool to gaze in astonishment because a car was thumping and crashing its way along the dirt road that led from the island 's one village to Bonefish 's sprawl of shacks . |
| 28 | I detest the dawn in which ‘ Guernica ’ publicly relinquished its place of ignominy , rising again like the Phoenix and transforming its ashen presence into a concrete threat to the future . |
| 29 | Harnessing an idea and transforming its potential into reality requires turning around the thinking of many people holding claim to resources needed to fuel an idea 's growth ( financing , information , human resources ) . |
| 30 | At this plenum Gorbachev was highly critical of the CPL leadership , declaring its action " illegitimate " and invalid and condemning its first secretary Algirdas Brazauskas for compromising with nationalist and separatist forces . |