Example sentences of "[vb past] it [conj] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here and here alone the bourgeois and even more the petty bourgeois family could maintain the illusion of a harmonious , hierarchic happiness , surrounded by the material artefacts which demonstrated it and made it possible , the dream-life which found its culminating expression in the domestic ritual systematically developed for this purpose , the celebration of Christmas . |
| 2 | But he did much more than write : he drew it and painted it . |
| 3 | In the morning erm we got some bread and put it on the window and came down and we caught it and put it out again . |
| 4 | People walked round it , a pram wheel caught it and dragged it a little way . |
| 5 | Caroline jerked her hand back , and Nicolo caught it and held it in his . |
| 6 | Ronni caught it and threw it back at him , impatient of his criticism . |
| 7 | We not merely retained it but expanded it , and it has fully justified our confidence . |
| 8 | He believed that his body was a good guide to his character and he punished it and indulged it by turns . |
| 9 | She sucked her teeth , took another ticket down at random , glanced at it , crumpled it and tossed it into the disposal by her left knee . |
| 10 | They sucked it and licked it down to size . |
| 11 | I 'd seen somebody taking it so I tried it and liked it . |
| 12 | He looked round for the phone , found it and took it to the woman , laying it in her lap . |
| 13 | ‘ Or somebody found it and took it away . ’ |
| 14 | In the feeble light his hand searched for the bolt , found it and shot it home . |
| 15 | He found it and rang it , giving exactly the same sort of excuse as Eleanor 's . |
| 16 | ‘ There is a letter somewhere , ’ Sister Cooney searched until she found it and handed it to him . |
| 17 | He found it and packed it among orange and strawberry lollies so it could be taken to Middlesbrough General Hospital to be sewed back on in a four-hour operation . |
| 18 | but as I wrote this and you know put in the acc th the conflict , it came up to two thousand five hundred words and I taped it and timed it and I 've been butchering it and cutting out all the really nice little sentences and the nice sentences and I 've got it down to two one sixty and now with that announcement on the end , as I 've got it taped , it 's fourteen minutes fifty-nine seconds for a fifteen minute slot , so it 's about as precise as you 're gon na get it . |
| 19 | The guide-books say little : Samuel Wallis visited it and named it Boscawen Island , perhaps after the great admiral of Finisterre ; the best vanilla in the Pacific is grown there ; and it is rumoured that the finest kavo — that faintly narcotic drink prepared from the powdered root of a local pepper plant , and an important part of rituals and celebrations in the South Pacific — is Tafahi kava , and that it renders all Tafahians perpetually slightly dopey . |
| 20 | He dropped it and pushed it away with his foot . |
| 21 | This sanguine trust in the unity and coherence of the universe is as far as possible from ‘ the American Puritan temperament ’ , as Eliot suffered it and articulated it . |
| 22 | In countries like Spain and Italy , where coal was imported in bulk , it was the railways which transported it and distributed it . |
| 23 | He undid it and drew it off . |
| 24 | Lowes did in fact trace many of the images unerringly to their source ; and what was even more interesting was how Coleridge 's mind took the raw material of some explorer , and twisted it and mixed it with many other ideas to produce the incomparable poetry of The Ancient Mariner and Xanadu . |
| 25 | She unwound it and gave it to him . |
| 26 | With care he lifted it and took it to the mouth of the chamber . |
| 27 | The wind coursed over it and flapped it — little whip noises that stirred it and made it seem alive , the dog-face scowling . |
| 28 | When he arrived that morning David appeared cool towards her — so cool , in contrast to the friendly relationship they had previously established , that Nina noticed it and mentioned it while she and Rachel were working out a list of appointments for management medicals . |
| 29 | He turned it and set it down again . |
| 30 | I turned it and played it to the net , though it did n't come in easily . |