Example sentences of "it and [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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1 | Richard had already been remarked as the kind of small boy enchanted by small girls and deaf to the ridicule of his peers on the matter ; on this occasion he watched Victoria twist her curls around her fingers in motionless fascination for ten minutes , then followed her for the rest of the afternoon , fetching drinks and finding seats , carrying her favourite blue rabbit when she dropped it and picking out the choicest pieces of bread and butter for her at tea . |
2 | If it does , no consequent action is needed ; if it does not , then either discard the generalization or amend it and try out the fresh implications . |
3 | Then , as your write a letter the computer interprets it and pops up the letter it thinks you have written . |
4 | Now you can look at that and sort of chant it out to yourself and learn that as a table or learn it visually or vaguely remember some of it and fill in the gaps by going back , What happened when we tried when we dripped ac acid on a metal ? |
5 | They jumped it and went up the opposite slope . |
6 | Parish council clerk at Gainford Margaret Brown said : ‘ They should n't strictly have been on the bridge but a lot of people do walk on it and climb over the small barricade at each end . |
7 | Minutes later it rammed a police car which tried to stop it and headed up the M5 . |
8 | The information carried by an amplitude-modulated signal ( see section 5.9 ) is recovered by rectifying it and filtering out the carrier wave to leave the amplitude-modulating wave . |
9 | Leave the brush in the oil for several hours , or longer , and then remove it and squeeze out the oil and work the brush backwards and forwards over plain brown paper or the side of a clean carton . |
10 | The mob tried to overturn it and drag out the driver . |
11 | He folded it and smoothed back the sheet . |
12 | But we were able to work through it and come out the other side . |
13 | Adam quickly crossed to the desk , leant behind it and pulled up the register . |
14 | Plummer crossed to it and picked up the receiver . |
15 | And the woman seemed in no hurry to close it and shut out the dangerous night ; she simply stood , looking down at the children and smiling . |
16 | She grabbed hold of it and peered down the microscope again . |
17 | I 'd like to raze it and plough over the site like the Romans did with Carthage . ’ |