Example sentences of "and [vb past] it [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | Lyn put a cloth on a tray and laid it and on an impulse picked a small blue iris and put it in a vase to go on the tray as well . |
| 3 | She ran out and posted it before she could change her mind . |
| 4 | Victor breathed on the glass in his hand , and buffed it until it gleamed . |
| 5 | Now you 're gon na get on and read it and you can report back in ten minutes and I do n't want any questions . |
| 6 | I will send you a copy before it actually goes off and read it and ring me aft if if there 's anything you do n't understand or you do n't agree with okay ? |
| 7 | One of the respondents turned it over and read it and said oh well you could put that in the wine shop . |
| 8 | The Daily Mirror did not even pretend that its Scottish edition was the same paper and sold it as the Daily Record . |
| 9 | And I mashed the tea and made it and a fitting shop was there too . |
| 10 | The authorities — in this case the military authorities — were extremely reluctant to allow members of the armed forces to contract such marriages , and made it as difficult as possible for anyone wishing to do so . |
| 11 | She took a silver pin and inserted it where a dart was marked with a black V and a dot . |
| 12 | No you did it and stuffed it and all that . |
| 13 | The Baronessa raised a long white finger , weighted at the base by a sapphire ring , and wagged it as though to a child . |
| 14 | but as I wrote this and you know put in the acc th the conflict , it came up to two thousand five hundred words and I taped it and timed it and I 've been butchering it and cutting out all the really nice little sentences and the nice sentences and I 've got it down to two one sixty and now with that announcement on the end , as I 've got it taped , it 's fourteen minutes fifty-nine seconds for a fifteen minute slot , so it 's about as precise as you 're gon na get it . |
| 15 | Victoria ripped the pale-blue cotton dress from her slim body and flung it and herself onto the ruffled bed . |
| 16 | I went up to the union and reported it and asked them to do something about it . |
| 17 | He called it the Common Red Rose and described it as having ‘ flowers not very double , open wide ’ , indicating that this must have been Rosa gallica officinalis or the Apothecary 's Rose . |
| 18 | In 1858 the Illustrated London News provided an illustration of it , and described it as ‘ the most substantially ’ constructed edifice in that city , partaking more of a European or Anglican character than most civil structures in Alexandria ’ . |
| 19 | The US Defence Secretary , Dick Cheney , said on Oct. 13 , 1989 , that the technology had placed an effective anti-missile system within US reach and described it as " the single most important military bequest this generation could make to the future " . |
| 20 | I lunged for the meth. bottle and caught it before it hit the floor . |
| 21 | She tossed it up and caught it as it came slowly down . |
| 22 | With a soft top , yeah the easiest thing to do is just get a knife , stick it in and slit it and you 've got a little hole to get in . |
| 23 | She was startled when he took her hand impatiently and moved it and some small hurt must have shown on her face at his swift action because he looked down at her frustratedly . |
| 24 | He moved his hand and touched her breast through the robe she wore , found the nipple and stroked it until it hardened and she stirred . |
| 25 | It was n't until I 'd bought one and used it that I realised how much it speeded up knitting . |
| 26 | It appeared to me that the quest for publicity could do nothing but harm , so long as we were certain , as indeed we made sure , that all the disabled knew of the facility and used it if they so desired . |
| 27 | Queen Victoria had a brass plaque put up in his memory in St George 's Chapel at Windsor , where I searched for it and found it while I was at Eton . |
| 28 | for it and found it when you want it er , it would have paid you to cut a bit off a new bar . |
| 29 | As the train pulled out of the station she searched back for Moran 's face among the crowd and found it and waved . |
| 30 | Haeckel endorsed this view and regarded it as being confirmed by Eugene Dubois ' discovery of the yet more ape-like Pithecanthropus ( now known as Homo erectus ) in Java during the 1890s . |