Example sentences of "it and [verb] [verb] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did think about it and asked to see him again , and once again he visited me with Patrick Nairne . |
| 2 | A low range of hills lifted in the north , yellow , rumpled , threadbare , as if someone had been carrying a lionskin and had grown tired of it and had thrown it down . |
| 3 | His dissertation was nearly finished but for the last six months he had almost stopped work on it and had devoted himself entirely to his passion , a crusade against nuclear power . |
| 4 | They 'll accept it and put send it through on the nod if we can get his support . |
| 5 | He gave up trying to understand it and vowed to harden himself more . |
| 6 | His father , with a working man 's regard for hired finery , picked it up , smoothed it and stood draping it over his arm like an outfitter 's assistant . |
| 7 | She almost dropped the line in disgust , but managed to hold it and started to swing it back and forth like a skipping rope in wider and wider slow arcs . |
| 8 | It remains the case that for much of our constitutional history the Cabinet and its forerunners were never greatly liked by Parliament which was at times bitterly hostile to it and tried to stamp it out . |