Example sentences of "and [v-ing] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , anglers regularly take home large quantities of fish , selling it locally , storing it in freezers and eating it several times a week . |
| 2 | Art historians call it looking at life through a hall of mirrors … capturing the ordinary and bringing it alive . |
| 3 | She saw that the man who owned it was hanging on to the side and checking it each time it swung . |
| 4 | Three steps fixed from the start , he wrote : making the glass , showing the glass , and ending it all . |
| 5 | Once she was certain that the house was asleep she had climbed lightly out of bed , dipping her face into the bowl of washing water on the table near the door and dabbing it dry with a hand towel . |
| 6 | He then was responsible for salting the venison and packing it in barrels , and keeping it safe until required , or sending it wherever the king wanted it . |
| 7 | Setting up the experiment in Utah and keeping it secret turned out to be easier than in Britain . |
| 8 | Eating was part of the serious business of training your body and keeping it fit . |
| 9 | The same effect can be obtained by filling the pool with water and emptying it several times over a period of two or three weeks . |
| 10 | For what we should be doing is taking a bit of the real world and imagining it existing while the rest is blocked off , and the activities of a postman in the real world involve this sort of belief . |
| 11 | Morning chats introduce the options ; righting drill , tailchasing in Lasers , knotting with spinnakers , knitting with trapeze wires , tacking Hobie cats , and threading it all together with a local regatta . |
| 12 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
| 13 | However , Poulantzas argues that , in smoothing over the structural contradictions of society and rendering it coherent , the state simultaneously maintains existing classes . |
| 14 | Or Dostoevsky holds firm to a certain grandness and climactic force , while inverting the podvig and rendering it passive , when Stavrogin ‘ endures ’ a tremendous punch in the face from Shatov . |
| 15 | And because if you 're just looking at every word separately everything lo you 've got to learn so many things have n't you if you can pot the patterns and then you can start having a a guess at what it might be and getting it right most of the time and then you gradually learn them as you go along . |
| 16 | None the less , there is a trade-off between getting it now and getting it right . |
| 17 | After deciding that oak would be best for the job , it was then to work , carefully measuring the arch and getting it all drawn up to scale . |
| 18 | All things being equal we could probably turn one of these things around , which is basically preparing all the literature , briefing the systems people and getting it all printed up and everything in about six weeks . |
| 19 | They have not finished analysing their data and getting it ready ; still , their current bullishness about their earlier result is not that of people who already know their next experiment to have failed . |
| 20 | Tolonen gave a short laugh then glanced briefly at the Captain , before taking the clipboard back from his daughter and holding it open at the place she indicated . |
| 21 | Caspar had gone mad , leaping all over the beet and sending it rolling . |
| 22 | Making a joke of it , by slapping the sink and calling it naughty , might have defused the situation . |
| 23 | I think he 's trying to be sensible and doing it all wrong . ’ |
| 24 | If I start going in there and doing it all you 've got ta show how to . |
| 25 | I ended up sitting by the lakeside and letting it all drift over me . ’ |
| 26 | How simple and shining it all had looked when she was young and mama was preaching democracy and she went one better with her faith in Fabian Socialism . |
| 27 | It helps people to appreciate mystery by not defining too easily and sewing it all up . |
| 28 | into a marquis and having it all laid on for |
| 29 | However , treating knowledge about language systematically and giving it explicit mention in the syllabus is not universal in our schools . |
| 30 | Meet the new breed of enchantress , the spell-binding women who are taking the male bastille and giving it some earthily female perspective . |