Example sentences of "[prep] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She threw the ball across the lawn and the cat bounded after it over the frosted grass , the muscles rippling under the black sheen of his coat . |
| 2 | It was a very ill-ordered household , Mary and Claire looking after it between them in a slapdash way . |
| 3 | Formerly the collection of the Greater London Council , the 5,000-piece strong holding ( give or take a few balusters ) is now the property of English Heritage , curated by Mr Treve Rosoman who has looked after it since its days with the GLC . |
| 4 | He has been looking after it since Tuesday morning . |
| 5 | It would be insipid to say this book loves football , it does n't , it lusts after it with a taste for the perverse and the painful . |
| 6 | Garden furniture will come up looking like new and will last longer too when you look after it with your Steamatic . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd rather you went after it with my support than behind my back . |
| 8 | It 's worn well ; David must be looking after it with a coat of stop-rot now and then . ’ |
| 9 | Rather , he was to look after it on behalf of the grantor 's family . |
| 10 | ‘ His neighbour is looking after it at the moment but I do n't think she 'll be prepared to keep it indefinitely . |
| 11 | After they saw the pig — a pot-bellied Vietnamese — on Central News South last night — Environmental Health officers warned the pig 's owner that she 's breaking the law by the way she looks after it at home . |
| 12 | Unless you can do so your holding will deteriorate or you will spend a small fortune paying outsiders to look after it for you . |
| 13 | If you have forgotten anything , you can always phone whoever has a key to your house or is looking after it for you . |
| 14 | Making a will with a solicitor also has the advantage of that you 'll have a copy , he 's likely to look after it for you if you want him to . |
| 15 | If one word stands out as not being the same as the others , put a question mark after it for now . |
| 16 | He had some money saved and wanted the Army captain to look after it for Jeannie . |
| 17 | Ah yes I have looked after it for ever since it was new and er and it was the one that reopened the station after the boat 's lost here , but as I say you 've got to look forward and I think it 's a good idea to have a new boat here . |
| 18 | I 'll look after it for you until you 're back . ’ |
| 19 | Because we ca n't just accept that , that manufacturers will look after it for us , because as you 've , already said by the Chief , they 'll move the factory where it |
| 20 | I 'm looking after it for Cherry . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , ’ he says , then smashes the ball off the 15th tee , up over the hill and goes running after it down the other side . |
| 22 | I 'm off round the corner after it like Wally the cat ; then I pounce . |
| 23 | iii Caretaker or lost child : This child takes responsibility for the family and looks after it by gently blending into the background and keeping the peace . |
| 24 | Having quoted the opening of Gormenghast in 1.4 as an example of an opaque style , we shall now return to another passage which occurs shortly after it in the same novel . |
| 25 | He threw a stick into the river and the dog went after it in a flying leap , landing with a huge splash and paddling furiously , its black head sleek like a seal . |
| 26 | I mean David 's talking about the leaf stem I could n't care less about the leaf stem I 'm with most people I understand that Councillor Barry Jackson 's offered to look after it in his garden cos he likes it and he 's welcome to do that . |
| 27 | A rat as big as a cat scurried down a steep slope and a small bush slid down after it in the torrential downpour . |
| 28 | I think we do have to explain the , the re-establishment of authoritarian forms of government more carefully , we ca n't just assume that there 's a kind of almost instinctive hankering after it among the mass of the population because I 'm just not convinced by that at all . |
| 29 | It was from these that the ‘ grammatical rules of school textbooks ’ were derived , at least until the work of descriptive linguistics in this century , and perhaps still despite it in some cases . |
| 30 | There are two storeys below it with a beautiful , rich , decoratively carved entablature on classical pattern and , below , Byzantine carved capitals of basket design and exceptional quality . |