Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] and [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she 'd finished and given it to him , they both sat at her tiny kitchen table . |
| 2 | The change-over day from one occupancy to the next was on a Saturday , when our admirable Jane Jones arrived to clean and prepare it for the next lot . |
| 3 | The newly-weds moved into the Red House in 1860 , and began to furnish and decorate it to Morris 's own designs . |
| 4 | With the weight of John 's head slowly reducing one leg to numbness , I decided to try and explain it to myself . |
| 5 | We got so fed up with the leaking roof that we decided to try and mend it with some tar . |
| 6 | I know they loved the place and Daddy planned to mend and restore it for us . |
| 7 | Not because I could n't have had a holiday only that er we had loads of milk so we had to go and fetch it from the farms and you got ta have somebody to take it out . |
| 8 | But we had to go and take it into his culler I had one day at that , I thought I thought I 'd had enough coal . |
| 9 | But he had designed and built it for himself . |
| 10 | And her suppliant 's face , round and even in this twilight , thickly flushed in the hectic way that he had seen before , repulsed him and made him take her by the arm she had raised and move it like a detached limb back to her side . |
| 11 | Yet it was not beyond the power of reason and foresight to know that the days of the Indian Empire were numbered , if not in years , still in decades : the best and the wisest of the British in India had known and said it from the beginning . |
| 12 | Ken Russell took the removal of restraint and stiff-upper-lip repression that American finance had encouraged and turned it into a distinctive aesthetic style . |
| 13 | A tower wagon was waiting at the Lower Church Street corner to remove the junction in the overhead wires as soon as the last trolleybus had passed and replace it with plain wires leading only in the Mitcham direction . |