Example sentences of "it and [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bumble bee flew frantically up the motorway with his back legs crossed , stopping briefly at each motorway service area as he passed it and muttering to himself : |
| 2 | If you stare at a Rottweiler it thinks you are challenging it and goes for you immediately , knocking you down and tearing your throat out . |
| 3 | If , on the other hand , he was not genuine in writing the letters and had connived or conduced to the fraudulent behaviour of the son , or was even aware of it and consented to it , then he would not under any logical analysis have written the letters in these terms . |
| 4 | But instead of trying to adapt to the British way of life he rebelled against it and reverted to his African heritage . |
| 5 | Echoing Kant , he insisted that any properly objective enquiry could not impose on its material methods worked out in advance or in relation to some other topic ; only within the context of encounter with and experience of the object itself could it discover how to speak of it and enquire into it . |
| 6 | But there were those who said that Douglas had known of it and connived at it . |
| 7 | She squeezed round it and called to him , but there was no answer , and she frowned a little , as she stood looking round her . |
| 8 | The house owner found it and ran with it to the boat . ’ |
| 9 | People do n't have to agree with what she believes , but if you do n't like it , just ignore it and stick to your own views . |
| 10 | Mm you 've got to keep on top of it and keep with it . |
| 11 | Arthur left Fred to it and lay on his back in his own bedroom , reading a book about ballistics . |
| 12 | lay on and twist it and lay on you know . |
| 13 | My initial motive in going to do something is having the desire to do it , thinking I can do it and moving towards it . |
| 14 | Both want the carp to like it and thrive on it . |
| 15 | Some people like it and thrive on it , others find it very , very difficult to live with . |
| 16 | See I , I personally in , in the past I would 've jumped on it and gone for it . |
| 17 | Now he drained it and squinted at her through the glass . |
| 18 | This awareness of the changing world , and the ability of a consultancy to react to it and prepare for it , separates the most professional public relations practitioners from those who merely regard public relations as getting or suppressing publicity . |
| 19 | My advice to young people thinking of going into catering is to gain as much information as possible , try it and judge for yourself . |
| 20 | She accepts it and copes with it , the way children do . |
| 21 | More positively , it is the recognition that all people should have the right to live within the community — to contribute to it and benefit from it , and simply to be a part of it , except in very rare circumstances . |
| 22 | He declared : " The new confederation should therefore , on the contrary , make the path to the EC easier for these countries and in its own way prepare it and act as its mediator . " |
| 23 | Manpower told us that its staff are attracted to it and stay with it because of the level of such fringe benefits and the level of pay it offers and not because they are given contracts which confirm them as having dependent employee Status . |
| 24 | You are born in it and stay in it . |
| 25 | I stand in front of it and stare at it . |
| 26 | If so , any school or group of schools in consultation with the College and the leader of the in-service team may decide to depart from a particular syllabus or portions of it and develop in its place new material which after being tried out and improved upon may be passed on to other schools and colleges for use on a wider scale with the approval of the Ministry . |
| 27 | He had booked a beach house in Phuket , the island paradise on the coast of Thailand , for their honeymoon , and Rachel was both dreading it and clamouring for it . |
| 28 | He took one look at it and said to her , ‘ Jean , I think you should scrap the idea that Christ is the answer . |
| 29 | That model worked comfortably , so she used it and said to him , ‘ Tell me about myself . ’ |
| 30 | Edward was hobbling to a Humber and the little man detached himself from it and came to him . |