Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Asian elephant is basically a jungle-living animal , lying up in shade during the day and feeding mostly when it gets cool . |
| 2 | We have a fox that lives near us and I have spent many a night and a morning watching it frolicking and jumping about and it breaks my heart to think that many of its kind are suffering death at its worst . |
| 3 | It had no identifiable melody , it was just beautifully melodic , rising and falling gently as it carried him along . |
| 4 | Back in prehistoric times , the river which we now call the Thames was created by rains falling on hilly ground on the western side of this country , and meandering lazily until it found its way into the sea on the eastern side of the continental peninsular which became an island by separating itself from the continent of Europe . |
| 5 | Until the middle of the nineteenth century the whole of this load , equivalent to the weight of many railway trains , had to be carried by hemp ropes which were always shrinking and swelling , rotting and stretching so that it called for great skill to avoid the loss of some or all of the masts and spars . |