Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] and [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | opening it and shutting it , |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Plus , taking , keeping it and doing it if you see benefit in that . |
| 7 | You see , he knew he would get more income in the long run from returning your hat than from keeping it and selling it . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But he had written all over this one — the handwriting was unmistakable — before tearing it and throwing it on the floor . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This does n't help , setting it all down , discussing it , unravelling it and rolling it up like a dead tongue . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When I very deliberately try and remember it like this I know I end up remembering it and describing it being like a bar scene in a musical , where everyone that the camera pans past is a very definite character , and they 're all so eager when the camera is on them , clapping and laughing and tapping their feet to the music so convincingly . |
| 15 | is the bathroom , so she must have been in there cos he 's hammering on the door and bashing it and kicking it . |
| 16 | However , jailing Shields for three months , Sheriff William Fulton told him : ‘ It is not so much a case of stealing from this house as plundering it , ransacking it and leaving it in an awful mess . |
| 17 | the gathering up of all this scattered craft knowledge , systematising it and concentrating it in the hands of the employer and then doling it out again only in the form of minute instructions , giving to each worker only the knowledge needed for the performance of a particular relatively minute task . |
| 18 | In the higher , hotter parts , the lava continually advances forward over this solid material , engulfing it and rolling it up like the tracks on a tank or caterpillar tractor . |
| 19 | I would n't bother with that if I were you , we 're gon na be hoovering it and cleaning it are n't we . |
| 20 | If people had been in a building after we had been round testing it and seen it secure , they 'd come out and leave it open . |
| 21 | I take the view that a collection of material which is consonant with our acquisitions policy in other respects , should be accepted on the assumption that we must find a way of preserving it and making it available . |
| 22 | The people surrounding it and supporting it — and by now many are living off it — are fitter and are living longer than ever before . |
| 23 | the Organisers shall accept full responsibility for making good any damage caused to the premises , furniture , equipment or other property of the University by conference/course participants , the Organisers , their agents , servants or contractors , and for the cost involved in any substantial alterations of the normal furniture layout of the accommodation to be used , or , where more than normal costs are involved , in cleaning it and restoring it to order after use . |
| 24 | It involves sucking the contaminated oil into a cleaning system housed in a mobile trailer , cleaning it and returning it to the transformer . |
| 25 | I think Nestle have had to change their policy , because they were selling it and advertising it , and it was obviously doing harm to the children . |
| 26 | ‘ We were raided on Monday by customs with the specific intention of confiscating it and sticking it in a zoo somewhere , ’ he said . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | One is , of course , that an old and tried medicine which has been on use for perhaps a hundred/a hundred and fifty/two hundred years is really a very safe medicine and you wo n't come to much harm by buying it and taking it . |
| 29 | The iron band , together with the turn-of-the-century frame , was fitted directly to the panel itself , constricting it and causing it to split vertically . |
| 30 | The Profitboss devotes time and effort to this , taking his team away periodically to discuss their vision of excellence , clarifying it , refining it and defining it in terms of the best standards , the best contribution , the best performance . |