Example sentences of "and [vb past] it [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And to do it without a lot without a lot of support from the a from the people who actually lived in the flats , although they organized things and got it going , and the people living there did n't seem to be motivated to give them the kind of encouragement erm |
| 2 | I did n't bother the milkman , but a lady kindly came and put in a little battery — and then the neighbours adjusted it and got it going . |
| 3 | But she did n't get she got ill treated and that and he did n't the erm boy did n't feed him properly so it 's all sort of skin and bone so we went and brought his pony and erm , we sort of fed it up and got it going again . |
| 4 | The Royal College of Physicians and similar organisations overseas have studied alternative allergy and found it wanting in scientific credibility and clinical usefulness . |
| 5 | Gingerly , sweating , I curled my left hand behind my back and felt for the third arrow , and found it sticking out of my jersey though fairly loose in my hand . |
| 6 | Glancing from beneath her lashes , Lindsey studied his profile , and found it unnerving , or perhaps it was simply that the confining space of the small car did n't allow much distance between driver and passenger . |
| 7 | The move cut across the efforts of SEMS , and stopped it achieving the sales it had hoped for . |
| 8 | She chucked in another handful and heard it rattling against the walls . |
| 9 | I knew a south London teacher who invented an instant tradition of local environmental walks to remedy this deficiency , and called it Beating the Bounds of the Catchment Area . |
| 10 | Tom stopped and put his finger to his lips and they stood and watched it hopping in and out among the changing leaves . |
| 11 | They took a muscle sample from my arm , stuck electrodes into me , injected some radio-opaque fluid into my spine , and watched it going up and down with X-rays as they tilted the bed . |
| 12 | Athelstan jumped as a fierce tom cat slunk out of the shadows , grasped the rat by its leg and pulled it squealing into the centre of the room . |
| 13 | With a sudden swift movement , he seized the shotgun with his left hand and sent it whirling off into the night after the pistol . |
| 14 | Corbett rose from his stool and sent it flying back with a crash . |
| 15 | He lashed out at it and sent it flying down the road , away from the trio of kids . |
| 16 | Then the wind rose again and plucked his top hat off his head and sent it bowling among the stones . |
| 17 | He refolded the paper dart neatly and sent it skimming across the tea-table . |
| 18 | He reached for the bat and sent it skimming along the boards . |
| 19 | Lifted a sheet out and sent it billowing through the air . |
| 20 | A sudden gust caught the hat she was wearing — which was , incidentally , the only hat she possessed — and sent it careering wildly down the road . |
| 21 | Hawk built a fire in the courtyard , and kept it burning for a week , producing dried wood from God knows where . |
| 22 | These goblins hated the old man and the boys , because they tended the sacred fire at the sun 's shrine and kept it burning even at night , so that there was always a light in the forest . |
| 23 | No sooner did he reach York than he resurrected the York Quarterly and kept it going for five years and nineteen numbers , with the arms of the see on the outer cover , and underneath , ‘ Editor : the Archbishop of York ’ . |
| 24 | Although he made a huge bonfire of his papers and correspondence in 1916 , and kept it going for a few days , Edward preserved all her letters along with his notebooks . |
| 25 | He not only created the material world but also , like a divine watchmaker , set it going by an initial injection of motion , and kept it going by occasional adjustments . |
| 26 | He swept from nowhere to 13 in the world in four weeks and kept it going through the rest of the year and throughout 1991 . |
| 27 | and and kept it going . |
| 28 | He lifted the great brass knocker , cast in the shape of a dragon 's head and brought it crashing down . |
| 29 | In a single movement , he had snatched a vase from the mantelpiece and brought it smashing against Ben 's temple , as neat as the stone through the French window . |
| 30 | Maggie looked down and saw it moving at some speed ; dust flung up in a stream behind it and it was waiting as they taxied to a halt . |