Example sentences of "[prep] it and be [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Graham , Labour chief whip in the Lords , said at the weekend : ‘ Even though he came to the Lords with no experience of the House of Commons , he immediately got into the swing of it and was quickly given authority by his colleagues . |
| 2 | Overall , equations ( 9.78 ) and ( 9.79 ) allow for a signal being fed in at one end of a transmission line , propagating along it and being partially reflected at the other end to give a wave travelling in the opposite direction . |
| 3 | It is a form of law superior to other laws — because ( i ) it originates in an authority higher than the legislature which makes ordinary law and ( ii ) the authority of the legislature derives from it and is thus bound by it . |
| 4 | They savagely plucked feathers from it and were so carried away by their onslaught that they even continued attacking when the stuffed bird was held in the experimenter 's hand , close to his face . |
| 5 | The thing was wearing clothing still ; shreds of fabric still clung to it and were somehow interwoven with the grey and leprous flesh . |