Example sentences of "and [vb past] it [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He put out his hands almost against his will , took up one of the mallets and swung it testingly to get the feel of its balance , picked up a punch at random and applied its point , none too deftly because his hands were tremulous , to a half-defined fold of drapery in the nearest block of stone . |
| 2 | He opened the flying jacket and folded it then unzipped the tracksuit top . |
| 3 | Louise Hignett , a stylist from Keith Hall the Hairdressers salon in Arnold , Nottingham , cut off the damaged ends and texturised it throughout to encourage the curl and take some of the weight out of it . |
| 4 | She clicked it and took it away to reveal the red drop of blood that the tiny lancet 's pin prick had produced . |
| 5 | If ever I was tempted by the seductive stasis of an eidetic image , I punctured its reflecting skin with a dart and tore it away to reveal the structure of habit below . |