Example sentences of "it and [pron] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no escape from it and we longed for the luxury of sun glasses or a peaked cap . |
| 2 | We got the coffee , he paid for it and we walked to the remotest part of the canteen , behind a sort of screen , why here I said . |
| 3 | They bought half excuse me half of it and they lived in the basement , then the other half came up for sale so Peter bought the whole lot then |
| 4 | No it 's the name of a horse it , it 's about to give a foal or something and erm somebody took it and they found in the New Forest . |
| 5 | up there and all of a sudden he saw it and he came in the room , Tony and he went he looked up at it and the stood up at the back of his neck and he was going grurgh ever so quietly under his breath grurgh . |
| 6 | But er I did two or three hundred , four hundred , five hundred a day and I got fed up on it and I said to the gaffers one day , if you do n't change me from this job I 'm leaving , so they says oh we do n't want you to do that , best filer we 've had . |
| 7 | However I try it and I went in the shop and . |
| 8 | One of the other Germans emptied it and I recognized among the papers the interrogation form which the naval officer on the island had filled in . |
| 9 | So I fell for it and I volunteered for the Guards , but after a week , they decided I , I 'd got flat feet which was n't very good for slamming your foot down as the guards demanded in those days . |
| 10 | A long throw on the Leeds left went into the box , someone got a head to it and it looped towards the far post . |
| 11 | Defries , Daak and Ace could n't take their eyes from it as the shuttle took them inexorably towards it and it grew across the window . |
| 12 | On one of the islands he saw a shaggy water rat ; he shouted at it and it slid into the water and swam away with only the top of its head showing . |
| 13 | A gust of wind caught it and it slid towards the ground , but only for a moment or so . |
| 14 | Mum opened it and it flew in the house . |