Example sentences of "[pers pn] and [verb] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she got used to me and started to do it herself and in the end we were both very comfortable and relaxed . ’ |
| 2 | Poor students at the university were long known as ‘ mealie students ’ because they took a sack of meal and salt lumps with them and had to make it last all term . |
| 3 | we have gone to them and said look it 's six eight or seven |
| 4 | This entailed stopping on the Works premises and calling the fire station at intervals or in the event of a fire , informing them and helping to put it out . |
| 5 | But if you can produce them and like to do it , and if they fit the particular sort of book you are writing , well and good . |
| 6 | I thought it might be — that 's why I went back to Hong Kong , so I would n't be tempted to see you and start believing it was n't . |
| 7 | If a testator has left a legacy of something belonging to him and has alienated it as a consequence of urgent necessity , the trust can be claimed unless it should be shown that the testator intended to adeem it : moreover proof of changed intention is to be required from the heirs . |
| 8 | She picked up a small piece of paper lying beside her and began turning it over and over in her fingers . |
| 9 | Belinda had the case-file in front her and had handed it over without a word almost before he had realised who she was . |
| 10 | The prosecution alleges that Gilfoyle killed her and tried to make it look like suicide . |
| 11 | The prosecution alleges that Gilfoyle , 31 , of Grafton Drive , Upton , killed her and tried to make it look like suicide . |
| 12 | The prosecution alleges that Gilfoyle killed her and tried to make it look like suicide . |
| 13 | The prosecution alleges that Gilfoyle , 31 , of Grafton Drive , Upton , killed her and tried to make it look like suicide . |
| 14 | The prosecution allege Gilfoyle murdered her and tried to make it look like suicide . |
| 15 | The result is that one official feline organization will recognize the new mutation as an additional breed , while another official body outlaws it and refuses to allow it to enter its cat shows . |
| 16 | In a letter to his lawyers cited by foreign correspondents in Beijing on Feb. 18 , Wang commented on other " leaders and initiators of this movement " who " dared not take responsibility for it and sought to defame it " . |
| 17 | Had well he said , Just get on with it and keep pushing it up the wall , just keep pushing it up the wall , just come back . |
| 18 | Before the music papers had a chance to review the debut single John Peel discovered it and began playing it , almost on a nightly basis . |
| 19 | the plaintiff had ‘ purchased ’ a car from a person who had no title to it and had sent it to a garage for repair . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Apart from believing in it and wanting to do it ? |
| 22 | They 'll accept it and put send it through on the nod if we can get his support . |
| 23 | Most of us , as people who live in this world , are interested in our environment , and even if not young we certainly grow to appreciate it and to learn a bit about flowers and the way animals live and work in our garden and watching David Attenborough on television and erm we have a genuine interest because as part of this world we know it and come to understand it , and probably feel , therefore , if even if you 're not a biology specialist , which you certainly do n't have to be by any means , when a child asks a question about , you know , ‘ where do the flies go in winter ? ’ and ‘ why 's the hamster gone to sleep for three months ? ’ we feel more capable of answering it because we 're closer to it ourselves and those are the sorts of questions that people told us . |
| 24 | Most of us , as people who live in this world , are interested in our environment , and even if not young we certainly grow to appreciate it and to learn a bit about flowers and the way animals live and work in our garden and watching David Attenborough on television and erm we have a genuine interest because as part of this world we know it and come to understand it , and probably feel , therefore , if even if you 're not a biology specialist , which you certainly do n't have to be by any means , when a child asks a question about , you know , ‘ where do the flies go in winter ? ’ and ‘ why 's the hamster gone to sleep for three months ? ’ we feel more capable of answering it because we 're closer to it ourselves and those are the sorts of questions that people told us . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Angela did see it and did read it . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | If , as naïve young hunters , they attacked a brightly coloured prey , bit it and started to chew it , only to discover that it had a foul taste or a poisonous secretion , they would probably remember it for the rest of their lives . |
| 29 | If we do , we now have a model and can say that he and his family have been through it and have borne it with great fortitude , resilience and courage — as has been said , only through their deep religious faith — and that that has been a great lesson to us all . |
| 30 | Cover-up — a card is placed in the tray , the child studies the word beneath it then covers it and tries to spell it from memory , using the cubes . |