Example sentences of "it [verb] and [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cat er likes it there , it goes and sits on the top of it . |
| 2 | Armando Boetto , commanding officer of the 49 a Squadriglia , Blue 1 getting in the final burst before it disintegrated and fell into the sea . |
| 3 | It caught and twisted at the heart , and there was no armour against it . |
| 4 | It flickered and flew along the elding , and then burst into smoke , so thick and foul in the throat that I was fain to get on my knees behind a boulder , for the wind out of the cove sent it downhill … |
| 5 | The ferry was in ; it rose and fell on the swelling Grönsund . |
| 6 | Mrs Hollidaye 's voice was comforting as it rose and fell like the wind . |
| 7 | I stood staring at the jeep as it bumped and swayed over the uneven ground of the orchard until it reached the road and then disappeared in a cloud of dust . |
| 8 | And then once I suppose he would n't make it in the house would he he would have it made and brought to the house . |
| 9 | A hideously powerful blow on one of the boards sent it splintered and whirling into the basement . |
| 10 | It accelerated and moved into the slow lane , as he passed . |
| 11 | There was a rough equality between them which pleased him since it ignored and slipped through the magical armour of those clothes , the possessions , the name , the title , the carriage and four , the weight of deference and the history of servility . |
| 12 | It came and sniffed around the edges , and gradually came all the way out . |
| 13 | It writhed and curled in the fire as if it was alive . |
| 14 | Deixis is the most context-specific linguistic element , and it exists and occurs in the most situation-free as well as the most situation-bound utterances . |
| 15 | But suddenly it turned and galloped at the house and to my horror it leapt gigantically up and straight at me with bared teeth . |
| 16 | It shone and danced in the darkness , and without it there would be nothing ; but one hand raised against it and it could lightly cease . |
| 17 | This distinction is absolutely vital because it uncovers and deals with the first major misconception of doubt — the idea that in doubting a believer is betraying faith and surrendering to unbelief . |
| 18 | It was the last age when the railway station was an essential ingredient of every traveller 's itinerary : point of departure , point of arrival , point of contact en route with everyday life as it teemed and flowed outside the protective cocoon of the train . |
| 19 | She was shocked at the journalistic licence it exposed and appalled by the crime to which it referred . |
| 20 | Eventually , it tired and came to the pan . |
| 21 | Then it pupates and hibernates through the winter in the chrysalis state — unusually ; most butterfly species hibernate as adults or , occasionally , as caterpillars . |
| 22 | Then he added : ‘ I 'll leave it packed and labelled to the left of the door in the painting shed . |
| 23 | Along zones of plate convergence , especially where these occur along the margins — of continents ( such as along the west coast of South America ) , buckling of the oceanic lithosphere causes it to founder and sink into the underlying asthenosphere , thereby forming a subduction zone . |
| 24 | It repeated and enlarged upon the treatment he used at the Board of Trade and Privy Council Offices , with the main entrance , under a large dome , into a grand hall 320 feet long by 150 feet wide ( 97.540 × 45.720 m ) on the site of the Foreign Office . |
| 25 | Sometimes , small lava fountains play in the centre , and these reveal just how completely liquid lava can be , as it splashes and sloshes round the base of the fountain ; at other times , small jets of gas blow up through the lava in fiery gouts , churning up the lake into glowing whorls and currents of molten rock . |
| 26 | ‘ Zissick , zissick , ’ it called and darted across the shingle after winged insects at the water 's edge . |
| 27 | I stand listening for a moment — crying could ruin everything — but there 's only the rhythmic suck-suck , suck-suck , suck-suck as it breathes and sucks on the medicine . |
| 28 | Slightly overheated by food and wine , she uncoiled her feather boa and put it to fly and float from the back of her chair . |
| 29 | Then a body-bag was laid beside the corpse , and what remained of Simon Cormack was gently lifted from where it lay and placed on the spread-out plastic . |
| 30 | Afterall a good horse will cost you a fortune to buy … and then having it trained and ridden by the best will set you back at least a thousand pounds a month … |