Example sentences of "[v-ing] it and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not express what a privilege it has been transcribing it and entering your very mind and spirit in the throes of creativity , as it were . |
| 2 | The record company folk who have been talking Gulf and eating her sarnies leave and Susanna draws up a chair , sits on it cross-legged and starts to play with her hair , twisting it and knitting it . |
| 3 | The Founders were to be the guardians of the purity of the paper , protecting it and keeping it in touch with the grass roots which they represented . |
| 4 | The little girl was still holding the baby , cradling it and smiling into its face . |
| 5 | This was never a very promising argument , seeing that the notice is addressed to the defendants and not to the plaintiffs , and the defendants themselves have made it clear that they have no difficulty in understanding it and complying with it . |
| 6 | I 'm thinking actually of here in the university itself , we 've got three different groups in those areas that are now collaborating , and I think we 've got a good chance of _ especially in the area of schools curricula — but also in the area , I think , of helping business people , and I 'm thinking now of senior management , who might be your and my age , Brian , for whom computers did n't exist when we went through university or college , erm who 've probably more or less given up any hope of understanding it and understanding the computer boffins who have taken over — almost taken over the company at times , one suspects . |
| 7 | Between 1532 and 1534 , the passing of each individual piece of legislation was closely followed by the appearance of official government propaganda justifying it and anticipating the next move , a fact that suggests that a coherent policy was unfolding by this stage . |
| 8 | Terror gripped her so completely that she was incapable of opening it and let it fall to the floor where — she very nearly followed it in a faint . |
| 9 | They were apprehensive about opening it and sent for the Bomb Squad . |
| 10 | They came into the hallway before opening it and taking out rubber surgical gloves . |
| 11 | opening it and shutting it , |
| 12 | In the case of' Playne and Smith , they concentrated their efforts at a single site , Dunkirk , modernising it and installing a steam engine and power-looms . |
| 13 | Unable fully to abreact their responses to the trauma in their still quite limited conscious awareness , and unprepared by evolution for the revolutionary change which had suddenly overtaken them , our distant hominid ancestors dealt with the upheaval in their psychological and social lives in part by repressing it and forcing out of consciousness the irreconcilable conflicts which now occupied their instinctual drives . |
| 14 | The connotations of this in the creation of manhood were made clear by Baden Powell , founder of the Scout movement , who observed that masturbation checks the semen from getting its full chance of making the strong , manly man : ‘ You are throwing away the seed that has been handed down to you as a trust instead of keeping it and ripening it for bringing a son to you later on . ’ |
| 15 | Plus , taking , keeping it and doing it if you see benefit in that . |
| 16 | You see , he knew he would get more income in the long run from returning your hat than from keeping it and selling it . ’ |
| 17 | Yes , just widening it and straightening out some of the bends . |
| 18 | So you 've , is there then a choice between going for socialism now , going straight into collectivization or delaying it and keeping that end product in sight ? |
| 19 | And so when you 're pushing pressing on that squashing it and making it flow into sheets the pulling on it and seeing whether it will stretch or whether it . |
| 20 | If you stare at a Rottweiler it thinks you are challenging it and goes for you immediately , knocking you down and tearing your throat out . |
| 21 | I love being in France and I recently bought an old barn there and took great pleasure in rebuilding it and making a garden . |
| 22 | But he had written all over this one — the handwriting was unmistakable — before tearing it and throwing it on the floor . |
| 23 | Anyway , I have no access to it , and have to cart metres of black metal piping back from the town and sweat and labour over it , bending it and cutting it and boring it and crimping it and bending it again , straining with it in the vice until the bench and shed creak with my efforts . |
| 24 | This does n't help , setting it all down , discussing it , unravelling it and rolling it up like a dead tongue . |
| 25 | But I remember originally reading Kierkegaard and loving it and finding him tremendously exciting in this sense . |
| 26 | It is the same principle as the female body receiving the male sperm , and , after it has conjoined with the egg , nourishing it and gestating it so that its form can grow from fundamental simplicity to the complexity of a human body . |
| 27 | He had booked a beach house in Phuket , the island paradise on the coast of Thailand , for their honeymoon , and Rachel was both dreading it and clamouring for it . |
| 28 | This showed that he had not only been in the Catalina that had sighted the Bismarck but was actually piloting it and had taken avoiding action when the Bismarck opened fire . |
| 29 | He hopped close to my feet and waited till I presented him with a bun all to himself , and he had hard work nibbling it and taking it along with him to his home . |
| 30 | They they should see this , and they should be pushing it and saying you get your house in order before tackle the young people . |