Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [conj] it [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kite just kept snapping and flapping and flapping and snapping and it hauled the girl off the earth and into the air , winch and all . |
| 2 | Galileo took the argument further and claimed that the correctness of his law of inertia could be demonstrated by dropping a stone from the top of the mast of a uniformly moving ship and noting that it strikes the deck at the foot of the mast , although Galileo did not claim to have performed the experiment . |
| 3 | Also , an SSR based on the first SSR should be generated without reference to the offending module and stating that it supersedes the first . |
| 4 | Also , an SSR based on the first SSR should be generated without reference to the offending module and stating that it supersedes the first . |
| 5 | That same Sunday , in the evening , there was played out in the Cabinet Room the sad farce of waiting for the telegram of conditions for the line of credit front Morgans ' in New York , relayed through the Bank of England , and containing when it came the terms which were wanted by MacDonald and Snowden , but which were anathema to half the Cabinet . |
| 6 | Even when the referential locus of noun and adjective are the same , however , there is no general guarantee that the overall " output " , in terms of intensional entities ( and the real or potential referents to which they may correspond ) will be the same under these two ways of linking an adjective to a noun , which amount respectively to introducing a subject x identified in part through having the property F , and to introducing a subject x and saying that it has the property F. For instance , if we move from the predicative structure : ( 7 ) clouds are small to the phrase small clouds , we pass to an expression which identifies a certain group of entities but does nothing more than identify them ; whereas expression ( 7 ) identifies a quite different ( and much larger ) group of entities , and says something about them ( which , as it happens , is not true , even though small clouds certainly do exist ) . |
| 7 | Deputies from Estonia 's Russian minority boycotted the vote on the new law , describing it as discriminatory and claiming that it violated the constitution of Soviet Estonia , although Estonian nationalist deputies countered that that document had ceased to be valid since the March 30 declaration of a transition to independence [ see pp. 37322 ; 37461-62 ] . |
| 8 | Communication is not achieved by putting something that means — one thing to us in front of someone else and hoping that it means the same thing to that other person . |
| 9 | The Interministerial Council was an indispensable tool for keeping track of his own government and ensuring that it followed the line that he delivered from above . |