Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] it [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We argued for it and voted in favour of it in 1987 and in 1988 . |
| 2 | She read about it and saw it on television . |
| 3 | A year I had all the symptoms and I went and got a book and read about it and tried to find out as much possible about it and the book scared me silly because it told me all these things that could happen |
| 4 | She moved towards it and stood , staring out . |
| 5 | Carefully Sally moved against it and felt a sort of yearning begin in the sensitised area between her thighs . |
| 6 | If , for example , your boss asked you for ideas but each time you produced one he totally disagreed with it and rejected it out of hand then , assuming you found this unpleasant , your behaviour of putting forward ideas has been punished . |
| 7 | The Association is most grateful to the Rococo Group for their work in producing an excellent book and to all those who contributed to it and supported its sales . |
| 8 | Harry bent over it and kissed her , nearly overbalancing . |
| 9 | She hit the blancmange of the shoreline , bounced over it and flew sprawling into some bushes . |
| 10 | Most of the young , rather shabbily dressed people in the pub shouted over it or craned their heads closer to hear . |
| 11 | You snatched at it and gobbled it down , before someone else did . |
| 12 | I played through it and thought , ‘ That 's it , that 's what I want , ’ because of the warmth . |
| 13 | I paddled for it and caught it . |
| 14 | Singleton J. disposed of it as follows , at p. 319 : |
| 15 | I parked behind it and prepared some sarky backchat if the owners turned out to be sightseers . |
| 16 | And they added onto it and made it bigger since . |
| 17 | She was in great good health and has traded in her Persian lamb for an ermine and almost pirouetted in it when admired . |
| 18 | She came to it and stood and looked down into the dragon 's mouth . |
| 19 | Christopher gulped at it and started to choke , spluttering milk all over both of them . |
| 20 | Kenneth came across it while returning from a far-flung artist 's studio where he 'd been to purchase a John Miller watercolour for my birthday . |
| 21 | He put his hands on her shoulders and inspected her face closely ; nodded as if he approved of it and began to unfasten her hair . |
| 22 | However to judge by the veteran abolitionist Lushington 's intervention in the 1831 debate the powerful demand for immediatism from abolitionists in the country was still somewhat muffled in parliament ; he approved of it if understood as , measures immediately brought in now and adopted which might lead to the gradual extinction of slavery' ; Buxton had avoided completely talking of immediate emancipation . |
| 23 | But instead of trying to adapt to the British way of life he rebelled against it and reverted to his African heritage . |
| 24 | Bigwig turned into it and broke into a run . |
| 25 | When the gravel was exposed , a stream of clean water flowed from it and continued to do so for the next 7 days . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , the book which he based upon it and published in 1893 under the title De la Division du travail social : étude sur l'organisation des sociétes supérieures is without question one of the most influential and stimulating in the whole field of the social sciences . |
| 27 | He climbed over it and disappeared . |
| 28 | Parker licked at it and stuck on a bit of brown paper . |
| 29 | However what appeared to be a Bofors gun mounted on the fort on the breakwater , manned by three men , observed the aircraft and fired at it but did not obtain sufficient depression . |
| 30 | first of all she just ripped at it and slung it around , although after a couple of days she was tearing off dainty morsels and swallowing them . |