Example sentences of "[prep] it and [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe people will look at the squad , see I 'm out of it and assume my best days are over . |
| 2 | Emily Lloyd really made an outing out of it and brought her whole family — her mother , grandmother , brother , sister … |
| 3 | ‘ I always felt , ’ she said , ‘ that life 's not worth living , that I could only contemplate little bits of it and keep my sanity ; and those bits I selected carefully — the sun on a breakfast-table , girls dressing , flowers … ’ |
| 4 | She got a hold of it and thrust her head up into it . |
| 5 | Fred had already thought of it and shook his head . |
| 6 | When they reached the safety of the pile of sand they sat on top of it and watched their brothers . |
| 7 | Work out what Z one divided by Z two is , and then find the argument of it and give your answer in ratings , there . |
| 8 | She swung her arm as if to hit him , but Johnny caught hold of it and pushed her hand away . |
| 9 | Beside the path to his right there was a low wooden fence , a yard high he reckoned it to be , and in some places the snow had driven against it and reached its top . |
| 10 | He walked to the wall of the compartment and dropped his weight against it and closed his eyes . |
| 11 | He was wearing a T-shirt , and she slid her hands beneath it and threaded her fingers through the soft curls on his chest . |
| 12 | Advanced Visual Sytems Inc , the Waltham , Massachusetts-based spin-out from now defunct Stardent Computer Systems Inc , is attempting to put the past behind it and do its own thing with former parent 's flagship graphics software environment , the Application Visualisation System . |
| 13 | " Taking a spouse for granted " — in which , perhaps , something of the same reason exists — was listed by 7 per cent in respect of women and 21 per cent in respect of men ; how many men , once their wife 's attentions are taken up by child-rearing , leave them to get on with it and follow their own devices ? |
| 14 | Let them get on with it and use their capabilities to the full . |
| 15 | ’ Can you call-beam link with it and access its controls ? ’ |
| 16 | To deal with it and to prevent its persistent effects on children , doctors and nurses need more training to develop their psychological awareness and their counselling skills . |
| 17 | The game can be played in a more limited form in the little bowl-type individual urinals which are more fashionable these days , but Jamie has never tried this himself , being so short that if he is to use one of those he has to stand about a metre back from it and lob his waste water in . |
| 18 | May we turn our eyes towards this great sun , draw warmth and strength and comfort from it and receive its blessing . |
| 19 | Having read the report , the next morning Aitken telephoned Hugh Fraser , then of course a Conservative MP , to tell him about it , to quote extracts from it and to hear his very firm agreement that the report 's contents should be disclosed as a matter of public interest . |
| 20 | It 's sometimes easier for them to cope if they distance themselves from it and rebuild their lives as single parents , without telling people what they 've been through . ’ |
| 21 | Sometimes she dared to wonder at the causes for this way of life , for she could see that it did not represent a normal attitude towards society , though it was so deeply bred in her that all aberrations from it were for the rest of her life to seem to her perverse : but when , occasionally , she glimpsed some faint light of causation , she recoiled from it and shut her eyes in horror , preferring the darkness to such bitter illumination . |
| 22 | on finding yourself at the wrong lane at a junction should you A stay in it and miss your road , B and wait until you can change or C signal and move over quickly ? |
| 23 | stay in it and miss your r yeah you , look , if you 've done something you stay with it . |
| 24 | He found a hole in it and squeezed his way through . |
| 25 | I adjusted one of them to the reclining position , lay back in it and closed my eyes . |
| 26 | Now , along with your helpers , begin to raise that cone of light , little by little , by focusing upon it and feeling your desire . |
| 27 | For greater support , the plinth in front of the patient may be lowered so that he can bend over it and rest his torso on it , with his head turned to his normal side , and his arms relaxed by his sides . |
| 28 | Then she turned her head and stared to the top of her cage , and then flew darkly up to it and took her usual stance staring up , up now towards the moon and distant stars . |
| 29 | I left them to it and made my way along the inner side of the curving wall towards the doorway . |
| 30 | There was a marble fireplace opposite the door ; she walked slowly to it and ran her hand lightly over the back of one of the small , velvet-covered sofas that flanked it . |