Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pn reflx] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He clutched it by two handfuls of thick fleece , bracing himself as it tried to lunge forwards . |
| 2 | " But first , ladies and gentlemen , you should know that Dr McNab holds the discredited belief that you catch cholera by drinking … more precisely , that in cholera the morbific matter is taken into the alimentary canal causing diarrhoea , that the poison is at the same time reproduced in the intestines and passes out with the discharges , and that by these so-called " rice-water " discharges becoming mingled with the drinking water of others the disease is communicated from one person to another continually multiplying itself as it goes . |
| 3 | The function keeps calling itself until it returns the answer 1 . |
| 4 | The Director could n't ask what it was , not without implicating himself if it went wrong . |
| 5 | But one simply must not think about this ; at any rate , I am enjoying myself while it lasts . |
| 6 | She explains that Thru is ‘ a text that is really constructing itself and then destroying itself as it goes along … whenever I slide into a realistic scene … something happens later to destroy it , to show that these are just words on a page ’ ( 4 ) . |
| 7 | In both cases the ego seeks to defend itself against a passive relation to the superego and , in its manic symptoms , succeeds in convincing itself that it has been successful . |