Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [verb] it [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In future , she would not go looking for love , or trying to manufacture it out of other lesser emotions , but she still believed it would find her one day . |
| 2 | The 39-nation Conference on Disarmament meeting in Geneva on Sept. 3 adopted a draft treaty banning the use , production or stock-piling of chemical weapons , and agreed to pass it on for approval by the UN General Assembly . |
| 3 | Mr MacConachie took over Sherwoods 12 years ago and has built it up from a 34-man , £25m. business , to one which now employs 125 . |
| 4 | There 's a regular traffic of straw from here to the west country which is mostly pasture-land and needs to order it in from outside the area for animal feed . |
| 5 | But you have no faith in the power of the economy and want to prop it up with the crutches of the rotten police regime . |
| 6 | There is times I 've casually picked it up , dropped it on the floor and forgotten to pick it up for a while because I 'm on the phone and sometimes it is quite loud in my ear . |
| 7 | When he did n't reply she felt something bad approaching and tried to ward it off with an apology . |
| 8 | I carried my bewilderment into the coffee shop and tried to drown it along with the froth of my cappuccino . |
| 9 | All this happened in the twinkling of an eye and just as quickly I extricated myself from the upholstered prison , scraped up my hat and tried to bash it back into shape as I hobbled to retrieve a far-flung shoe . |
| 10 | The classy Irish defender can already picture the season building to a climax with Aston Villa and United slugging it out for the Championship . |
| 11 | They 'll accept it and put send it through on the nod if we can get his support . |
| 12 | At each end are two women : young one , lying on front and side , half-wrapped in her mantle as a blanket and beginning to pull it up on her shoulder as a dress while she lifts herself to look towards the centre ; and an old one with cropped hair , a slave , fully dressed , beginning to get to her knees . |
| 13 | A group of men who had come with Leofnoth found a broached cask and began to drag it out of the rear of the wood , and Siward had three of them hanged . |
| 14 | Cyril emptied several grams of cocaine on to a circular mirror and began to cut it up with a razor blade . |
| 15 | She untied the sleeves of her sweater and began to pull it on over her head , aware as she did so of a faint muffled sound behind her . |
| 16 | Annie weed down her leg and started to wipe it up with her hands . |
| 17 | John had done a burglary and bought a quarter ounce and started selling it out in bags . |
| 18 | For a moment I considered bolting , but I noticed that a young reptilian reception-clerk was watching me narrowly , as if he thought I might roll up a carpet and try to carry it out under my arm , and I became instantly obstreperous . |
| 19 | The children are not allowed to touch the fish with the paper and try to move it along by hitting it on the floor to create a draught . |
| 20 | Whatever the truth , it 's the all-mahogany Customs that have escaped the attentions of guitar-fakers , who often take a mid-'50s gold-top , strip the paint off , rout it for PAFs , refinish it sunburst and try to pass it off as a late-'50s Les Paul Standard . |
| 21 | Twenty years ago , when the firm was of negligible size , Mr Fikret Abdić became its director and proceeded to build it up into a giant enterprise . |
| 22 | She took the garment , and struggled to pull it up over her hips . |
| 23 | However it can become fully charged up with ammonia , and start to leach it back into the water . |
| 24 | He drank when young and while still young drank a lot , challenging himself to knock off all comers , but most of all to align himself with the legendary drinking miners who could and did sweat it off down the pit while Richard had to force it off in games . |
| 25 | Someone spills the maple syrup , and tries to mop it up with another table 's tablecloth . |
| 26 | Anyone who buys a piece of plant and machinery and tries to sell it back to the manufacturer at 75 per cent . |
| 27 | He must have written it as soon as Barbara had telephoned the news and had sent it round by one of his nurses who , in a hurry to get home after night duty , had n't even stopped to hand it in but had slipped it through the letter box . |
| 28 | Elizabeth had noticed the lighthouse on her flight back to England two years previously , and had marked it down as a place that she must see . |
| 29 | I naturally assumed you were using your dust-pan and had left it out in the hall . |
| 30 | Belinda had the case-file in front her and had handed it over without a word almost before he had realised who she was . |