Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] and [vb past] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barrow , the former Liphook all-rounder , wants to continue playing Minor Counties cricket for Berkshire and felt it was in his interests to join a division one side . |
| 2 | ‘ The English generals , ’ he replied , ‘ had the body dressed and embalmed after Flodden and sent it south for our King to view . ’ |
| 3 | He fought for Orkney and won it , against men just like Siward . |
| 4 | She peered at the Christmas cactus she had bought for Alan and decided it looked distinctly sorry for itself . |
| 5 | In response to his prompting remark that ‘ the Jewish problem still has n't been cleared up ’ and ‘ we hear nothing at all about what sort of solution is imagined ’ , only three Party members ( 5 per cent ) expressed open approval of the right to exterminate the Jews , with comments such as : ‘ The Führer has decided upon the extermination of Jewry and promised it . |
| 6 | I , and the rest of the family , laid back , thought of England and enjoyed it , because it is an impossible car not to enjoy |
| 7 | The next day he reported its receipt to the House of Commons and forwarded it to the Treasury with some papers explaining the background to the competition . |
| 8 | The slower tester ran just below 70 per cent of MHR and found it uncomfortable to push any harder for 10 minutes , let alone 20 . |
| 9 | Thereupon one of the companions of our bishop took a stone which had been blessed by all the people of God and hurled it from his sling after the manner of David . |
| 10 | We just dropped the subject of Billy and started it up ! |
| 11 | Kragan excused himself as he pushed past Frick and opened it . |
| 12 | Westmacott saw tracer at low level in the direction of Luqa and thought it was fire from an enemy aircraft — in fact it was the airfield 's own machine guns engaging the intruder . |
| 13 | I personally registered my version of Frombat and used it to create the Transend Menu Program , issued with every Shareware disc , and the Transend Catalogue which only took 3 hours to write . |
| 14 | He particularly admired the beautiful white spikes of Itea and recommended it for late flowering , a quality which also applied to Clethra alnifolia . |
| 15 | He installed a steam engine and boiler from Saverys of Tewkesbury and used it to power three pairs of stones and flour dressing equipment . |
| 16 | WHEN Robert Napier bought four acres of Carntyne and added it to his Parkhead Forge , it was to create something that would become a cross between Hell and Armageddon for the thousands who worked there . |
| 17 | After 30 years away , Denis Pitts returned to the Italian island of Elba and found it to be as beautiful as he remembered |
| 18 | The French quickly took the town of Killala and made it their headquarters . |
| 19 | But then more came , right to the site of Callanish and disturbed it , digging at the soil and making mounds ; changing the powers . |
| 20 | Mr Tsvangirai 's detention came a day after his Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions denounced the government 's closure of the University of Zimbabwe and accused it of unleashing ‘ brutal state force ’ against opponents . |
| 21 | Drawn up by a UN team and representatives of the Kenyan government , the report found that tens of people were dying each week in camps set up for the refugees in the remote border region of Kenya and described it as " appalling and embarrassing " that they were supposed to be under the care of the Office of UN High Commissioner for Refugees . |
| 22 | ‘ Once , we made a recording of John and hid it behind the radio while his mum was making us some tea , ’ he chuckled . |
| 23 | Kay had seen an advert in the Daily Record about parachuting at Strathallan Airfield near Auchterarder and thought it would definitely bring in sponsor money . |
| 24 | They brought out the launcher and fastened it to its base , and Diane spread out some plastic sheet for Jed and weighted it with the box of clays . |
| 25 | He began paddling at the age of 10 , got his first boat 3 years later , spent a week with PGL and followed it up the next year with a course at Raven 's Ait . |
| 26 | The pool that had been so jarringly empty when I took my premeditated dive into it with Terry , I fell into with Toby and found it full of champagne . |
| 27 | So , J. Olivier argues , Van Gogh , vanquished and vanquisher both , cut off his own ear after the altercation with Gauguin and presented it , in his own honour , to the lady , the Arles whore . |
| 28 | Although Constance was proud to be seen with Nicky and loved it when he took her out , she was determined not to be taken for granted . |
| 29 | 1156 followed its own decision in Rex v. Sheridan and applied it to facts which differed from those in Rex v. Sheridan only in that the defendant had there consented to be tried by a stipendiary magistrate and had pleaded guilty before the magistrate decided to commit him for trial on indictment . |
| 30 | It was during my visit that I made my acquaintance with Woolworths and thought it a marvellous store with goods that were priced at either 3d or 6d ; the firm did not arrive in Salisbury until 1927 . |