Example sentences of "it and [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As one of my comrades put it : " One bloke tried it and finished up in the Glasshouse . |
| 2 | When the Sergeant returned with steaming liquid in a tin container , Charles warmed his hands round it and gazed out across the flat expanse of his new command . |
| 3 | And the worst part was , everyone else seemed to understand it and strode out to the quay full of knowledgeable confidence . |
| 4 | I ran towards it and flopped on to an old bench . |
| 5 | Then he crouched over it and squared up to an imaginary ball . |
| 6 | There was no time to raise it and draw back for a stabbing blow . |
| 7 | I do not cast directly over the swim , but several yards beyond it and draw back to the swim before the bait can settle , covering all areas of the swim and many spots out of it . |
| 8 | and left it and walked off in the kitchen . |
| 9 | Eventually I left them to it and went off into the night , the bells keeping me company through the streets . |
| 10 | Sara left her to it and went out to the kitchen to begin the dinner . |
| 11 | His fingers were bloody and in his eyes there was such despair that I could not stand it and went out into the filthy courtyard ’ . |
| 12 | Dalgliesh left him to it and went out into the passage . |
| 13 | I pushed the black case deep into the hanging space again , stood up outside the door , closed it and went back to the scenes of jollity to the rear . |
| 14 | When we sat down for our sandwiches , I made him go away with the grisly thing , but we could still hear him crunching away behind a rock — first a crunch then a cough as he swallowed a feather , then another crunch then more coughs until he realised there was no future in it and came round for a sandwich . |
| 15 | Garry answered it and came back into the kitchen with two policemen . |
| 16 | ‘ And I threw back the bedclothes before I had any more time to think about it and burst out of the bed ; threw myself into the middle of the bedroom , screaming and roaring and thrashing about . ’ |
| 17 | Slightly overbend it and bend back to the correct angle |
| 18 | A good agency interviewer will look through it and pick up on the same gaps and discrepancies which will appear to the job interviewer but will not be looking with any one particular job in mind . |
| 19 | The pain was so unexpected , so absolute , that he had no name for it and fell over without a sound , like a baby , too shocked to make any fuss . |
| 20 | He dropped the diary into the drawer , closed it and fell back on the pillows . |
| 21 | Budget sub-committee said , we understand that , what we 're asking , what we ask is that the er , director of finance and the Chief Executive look at it and come back with a report . |
| 22 | It 's best with anything like that to dismiss it and get on with the game , ’ said Richardson , whose team were playing their opening tour match against an Australian Cricket Board XI in Perth today . |
| 23 | As the full , six-strong complement of the member 's Committee representatives were present , and obviously in support , he would quickly realise the arithmetic of it and press on to a vote . |
| 24 | ‘ Up ’ ( and I think we 're talking more than the one level of ambiguity in that solitary two-letter word ) is a record that actually makes you feel happy , in that all of it is uplifting ( oi ! spiritually , not trouserly ) , you can dance to some of it and sing along to the rest , the words are rude and witty and always smart , and Richard Fairbrass is a fantastic pop singer , all post-Bowie and Ferry and languid , a sort of brightly-coloured Neil Tennant . |
| 25 | Laidlaw drove past it and pulled up at the end of the dirt road . |
| 26 | Just mention it and move on to the weather , football , the SDP and whether it will turn political , anything . |
| 27 | He was just getting out of the car and he could just get back in it and move out with the same expertise . |
| 28 | ‘ When the show started everybody jumped on it and picked up on the things that were n't working . |
| 29 | ‘ I used to walk past it and peep in through the windows and think how much I 'd love to live there , ’ she confesses . |
| 30 | I stand in front of it and look up at the lights . |