Example sentences of "[v-ing] and it [vb past] " 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 The belly button was protruding and it looked ready to burst .
3 For example , in Malone v. Metropolitan Police Commissioner it was held that since there was no law against telephone tapping and it did not amount to any common law wrong , it was not unlawful for the police to engage in it .
4 He did n't want to exacerbate what he saw as an existing weakness of his own in that respect , and although he was not censorious of other people , I think he was genuinely quite frightened of it , and at one point in the Arts Lab , when there was quite a lot of speed pills , amphetamines , going around amongst the young people there , he did speak out very strongly one evening against it , saying that he personally did not want anything like that around anything he was closely involved with because he felt that it was not a good thing for people to be speeding and it created the sort of vibes that might end up causing problems .
5 I was drowning and it did n't hurt .
6 ‘ My father saw me going and it frightened me .
7 He had never before been accused of stealing and it did not sit well with him .
8 Linda was holding and it blew .
9 ‘ Ashley 's hotel is in a different part of town from where everyone else is staying and it seemed unfair to expect them to take a detour , ’ his mother explained .
10 She turned away , leaving Peggy standing stiff and cold , although the sun was shining and it had been in the seventies all day .
11 By February 1969 , Hello , Dolly ! was ready for screening , but the Broadway production was still running and it looked as if it might be more than two years before the film could be shown .
12 ‘ So I was upset I said I did n't want to , I was crying and it made him madder . ’
13 It was half-blind and its fur was staring and it expected nothing and desired nothing save the crust by the table leg on which its half-gaze was fixed .
14 He had found himself begging and it made him feel undignified .
15 They went begging and it needed an excellent save from goalkeeper Roberts to deny Saunders again in the 76th minute .
16 Each was required in turn to break off and tell us the advertisements were coming and it did prove hard , such was the intensity of the exchange , to sustain the intellectual commitment over commercial claims for Whiskas and options .
17 The rain kept starting and stopping and it looked as if most of our march was going to be in the wet .
18 He turned up at a party one night having just managed to get back from Italy where he 'd been supposed to be studying and it came out that he 'd been to Rome , too , and had actually met her father and knew their story — better than she did — and had sat at the feet of the Marchesa Giulia .
19 ‘ The swell was increasing and it seemed like an eternity .
20 The sudden change of colour on the wall had upset its sense of direction and it buzzed about angrily and eventually it came into the porch where I was sitting and it stayed there for a few minutes and then went outside searching the wall again for the entrance .
21 The smaller man was retreating and it seemed that his guard was weakening .
22 It saw monetary growth stalling and it feared that the American recovery might stall too .
23 He felt as if he was burning and it hurt to breathe .
24 Well I got me shopping and it cost me forty summat one .
25 Fans wrote letters to the band enthusing and it prompted them to include the rustic version on the CD , cassette and French version of the single .
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