Example sentences of "it and [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I put my forehead against it and hung on with both hands . |
| 2 | As one of my comrades put it : " One bloke tried it and finished up in the Glasshouse . |
| 3 | When the Sergeant returned with steaming liquid in a tin container , Charles warmed his hands round it and gazed out across the flat expanse of his new command . |
| 4 | And the worst part was , everyone else seemed to understand it and strode out to the quay full of knowledgeable confidence . |
| 5 | I ran towards it and flopped on to an old bench . |
| 6 | The bulldog twitched and sniffed the air , started to rise but thought better of it and flopped down with her head on her paws . |
| 7 | He carried her glass across to the mini-bar , re-filled it and walked back with it to the bed . |
| 8 | and left it and walked off in the kitchen . |
| 9 | I left them to it and went up into my tree-house . |
| 10 | Marion Conroy was on stage until the final curtain calls and came up the stairs with the rest of the cast afterwards , observing as she did that Pepper went into his No. 2 and shut the door but that Cissy opened it and went in after him , the wide-eyed babyish stare that was the caricaturists ' joy quite absent . |
| 11 | Eventually I left them to it and went off into the night , the bells keeping me company through the streets . |
| 12 | Sara left her to it and went out to the kitchen to begin the dinner . |
| 13 | His fingers were bloody and in his eyes there was such despair that I could not stand it and went out into the filthy courtyard ’ . |
| 14 | Dalgliesh left him to it and went out into the passage . |
| 15 | I pushed the black case deep into the hanging space again , stood up outside the door , closed it and went back to the scenes of jollity to the rear . |
| 16 | Anyway , whatever , it got pretty popular for a bit before everyone got bored with it and went back to staring out of the window and hiding Brian Smart ( and his accessories ) in the stock cupboard . |
| 17 | When we sat down for our sandwiches , I made him go away with the grisly thing , but we could still hear him crunching away behind a rock — first a crunch then a cough as he swallowed a feather , then another crunch then more coughs until he realised there was no future in it and came round for a sandwich . |
| 18 | Garry answered it and came back into the kitchen with two policemen . |
| 19 | ‘ And I threw back the bedclothes before I had any more time to think about it and burst out of the bed ; threw myself into the middle of the bedroom , screaming and roaring and thrashing about . ’ |
| 20 | I was outraged by it and got on to Smith at once , saying that on no account should the students be flogged and that if the sentence was carried out I would leave immediately . |
| 21 | The pain was so unexpected , so absolute , that he had no name for it and fell over without a sound , like a baby , too shocked to make any fuss . |
| 22 | He dropped the diary into the drawer , closed it and fell back on the pillows . |
| 23 | She unfastened her apron and folded it and looked down at herself . |
| 24 | Laidlaw drove past it and pulled up at the end of the dirt road . |
| 25 | He plunged on the bomber and raked it from tail to nose ; then let his dive carry him under it and pulled up in time to plant a burst in its belly before climbing into a half-roll which brought the next plane almost within range . |
| 26 | ‘ When the show started everybody jumped on it and picked up on the things that were n't working . |
| 27 | I got bored with it and sat down with my coffee . |
| 28 | She bent her head into it and held on to her hat . |
| 29 | He leaned close to it and peered out into the night , trying to see what was out there … |
| 30 | It was a long haul with my heavy bag to the bus stop at the top of town next day , but I made it and set out on a bus journey westward from Roscommon to Galway . |