Example sentences of "and [vb past] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It both created the revolution and paralysed it . |
| 2 | Jane had decreed bowls rather than plates for the curry and spooned it out in the kitchen whence it was ferried by Christopher , Francis and Martine ( Jane 's mind darted back involuntarily to Puchero and gauchos in Argentina ) . |
| 3 | ‘ she has never seen what is good , how can she be good ? ’ — Vincent quoted from Zola 's L'Assommoir to back up his contention ; or perhaps he had read it there in the first place and appropriated it . |
| 4 | Bertha Cohen felt his anxiety and shared it . |
| 5 | Instead , I just lit up a straight fag and shared it with her , Bogart style . |
| 6 | She found the rabbit , chewing on a stubby cactus , and stabbed it in the neck . |
| 7 | She switched on the vibrator , and stabbed it in and out of his backside like a demented piston . |
| 8 | Riven had lost his in the river , but he snatched up one of the long river poles and stabbed it down on the crowds of hairy heads which thronged the water , clicking against skulls . |
| 9 | ‘ What angers me is that they were on a government controlled game reserve and planned it carefully . |
| 10 | ‘ Finally on the seventh day , I thought that , being Catholic , they 'd rest , but still unfed and unwatered , each pony was blindfolded and tacked up , and Raimundo got on each one 's back , and whipped it and whipped it out into the pampas , until the pony 's spirit was completely broken , and it 'll never argue with man again . |
| 11 | ‘ Finally on the seventh day , I thought that , being Catholic , they 'd rest , but still unfed and unwatered , each pony was blindfolded and tacked up , and Raimundo got on each one 's back , and whipped it and whipped it out into the pampas , until the pony 's spirit was completely broken , and it 'll never argue with man again . |
| 12 | The Levellers articulated this awareness , and channelled it into a coherent set of democratic political demands . |
| 13 | She seized a passing shirt and propelled it vainly towards the bird . |
| 14 | He took off the first slice , you know the rather well-done , brown bit at the end , and laid it on one side of the serving dish and then he cut the next slice off for the first lady and so on . ’ |
| 15 | When she had finished , she put the top on the pen and laid it down . |
| 16 | As they walked round to the back door , Ben , Simon 's dog , came lolloping up the beach , charged at Marie with a stick in his mouth and laid it down carefully at her feet . |
| 17 | I picked up a likely length and laid it in the boat . |
| 18 | I took my gun out of the closet and put two bullets in the magazine and laid it on the table beside my bed . |
| 19 | Louis carefully folded his handkerchief into a square and laid it on the deck beside his chair . |
| 20 | While he was doing this Maggie took a pan of boiling water from the cooker and laid it by the side of the sink . |
| 21 | He took the flare from its bracket and laid it on the top of the trap-door . |
| 22 | The teacher then took a length of string , cut it to the height of the child and laid it on the ground on top of the shadow of Leanne . |
| 23 | When it had been cut and bound into sheaves , Kalchu carried it back to the village and laid it out on racks inside the house until it was dry enough to thresh . |
| 24 | She fetched my rope and laid it out on a clear patch of ground . |
| 25 | He frowned , pulled the napkin from his lap and laid it on the table as he stood up , shrugging apologetically to his mother , seeming to indicate that it was the kind of thing that had happened before , from time to time . |
| 26 | Zach and George dragged the case up to the bedroom and laid it on one side . |
| 27 | They called it All-Heal and laid it upon their altars as an emblem of the advent of the Messiah . |
| 28 | She took off her hat and laid it on the table , and he saw with a sense of shock that her hair was white down the line of the parting where the tinting had grown out . |
| 29 | There was not a needy person among them , for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them , and brought the proceeds of what was sold and laid it at the apostles ’ feet ; and distribution was made to each as any had need' ( Acts 4:32 , 34–5 ) . |
| 30 | She reached for her mother 's photograph and laid it in the case with the rest of the things . |