Example sentences of "it and [verb] it in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The post office was owned by two white-haired sisters , Annie and Lizzie , far out cousins of her own , and Annie stamped the envelope for her , postmarked it and dropped it in the calico bag on the counter . |
| 2 | And Hilderbridge lay in the sunshine , its slate roofs all turned to planes of silver , its spires sharp needles , as if a silversmith had made it and dropped it in the valley between the meadows and the moor . |
| 3 | He reaches up for it and takes it in both hands . |
| 4 | Young children often play with just one block at a time ; they may stand on it , sit on it and use it in their imaginative play as a parcel , steering wheel or tool . |
| 5 | ‘ If we want a lively and thriving democracy we have to enable people to have information in a way in which they can deal with it and use it in a way which enhances their understanding of the subject . ’ |
| 6 | I can pick the cigar up just with my eye-power and push it and pull it in the air any way I want ! ’ |
| 7 | The philosophy of LMS was rehearsed in the Coopers & Lybrand Report ( 1988 ) and the government has now adopted it and enshrined it in legislation . |
| 8 | She saw Adam take two strides to it and grip it in his hands . |
| 9 | The Profitboss devotes time and effort to this , taking his team away periodically to discuss their vision of excellence , clarifying it , refining it and defining it in terms of the best standards , the best contribution , the best performance . |
| 10 | An adult , by itself , will be hard-pressed to repel a determined attack on its young , but in a massed colony , outraged parents join together and surround an intruder in a cloud , shrieking angrily , diving on it and harrying it in a continuous attack . |
| 11 | Which brought her back to the sack and to the Friar who had carried it and left it in their care . |
| 12 | The pike rushed at it , bit it and left it in disgust . |
| 13 | His agent , Peter Müller , had prepared it and left it in one of the embassy ‘ letter boxes ’ for collection . |
| 14 | What I tried to teach people was that if we did n't increase the added value , but took more of it and put it in our pockets , the only place we could take it from was the glass marked reinvestment and that makes people unemployed quicker than anything — and permanently . |
| 15 | I tossed the wallet into the high grass and counted the money again before I folded it and put it in my pocket . |
| 16 | Ludens folded it and put it in his pocket . |
| 17 | We 'll probably wait for some boring moment on the tour and go over it , collect it and put it in a book for posterity ! ’ |
| 18 | Then the bruiser produced a letter , the bearded man gave him a bit of a stony look , but took it and put it in his wallet . |
| 19 | At the end of the summer , a beautiful girl passed , and she saw the tall weed , and plucked it and put it in her dress , where it blushed a glorious red and died content ; the weed on the bank saw it die , and laughed , and reflected that it would live till the next year . |
| 20 | He took a bar of bubble-gum from his pocket , unwrapped it and put it in his mouth . |
| 21 | She unwrapped it and put it in her mouth . |
| 22 | Well , you take that out of the stream , take it home , bake it , powder it and put it in a box ; and you use oils with it the same as you do for the milch . |
| 23 | If it is a real big son , great , we stuff it and put it in the front room . |
| 24 | We have to get special stuff called bulb fibre and wet it and put it in a bowl and then we plant our bulbs in it . ’ |
| 25 | I took the cheque , folded it and put it in the back pocket of my jeans . |
| 26 | She says that her husband suggested they buy it and put it in the bedroom ! |
| 27 | In the chip shop we bought some fish out the fryer and put in the top and straight away got them bloody tongs picked it up and poured the bloody grease off it and put it in the bloody bag thought it was terrible . |
| 28 | Yeah but what you could do , Nancy will be really responsible about things like that , you can say to her if a big fat Housing Benefit cheque comes for me cash it and put it in my bank . |
| 29 | Well can you empty one of those and put it and put it in that bucket . |
| 30 | ‘ I thing it is my forte to take something like a relationship , and then examine it and mirror it in different songs , it 's actually the same relationship but looked at from a different way . |