Example sentences of "it and [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 He gave a thumbs-up sign then replaced it and manoeuvred his wheelchair round behind his desk where he tapped his security code into the IBM computer linked up to the central data bank elsewhere in the building .
2 It is the same principle as the female body receiving the male sperm , and , after it has conjoined with the egg , nourishing it and gestating it so that its form can grow from fundamental simplicity to the complexity of a human body .
3 Infant teacher has it and asks me to make sure that the Head of Primary knows that one of the children had a fit on the bus this morning .
4 The people surrounding it and supporting it — and by now many are living off it — are fitter and are living longer than ever before .
5 So , next time you prepare for the carve gybe think your way through it and imagine what it feels like to bear away , bending the knees and , at the end , flipping the rig .
6 so it was a bit of er struggle to er , to get them to come and look at it and fix 'em up again , well they did n't fix 'em up they , they , they give 'em a new one , they only got it in the sale
7 Ideally , Praxis would like IBM to adopt the installer , productise it and bundle it with the RS/6000 , though it is ‘ far too early ’ to say whether this might happen , says the firm 's Stephen Robertson .
8 The post office was owned by two white-haired sisters , Annie and Lizzie , far out cousins of her own , and Annie stamped the envelope for her , postmarked it and dropped it in the calico bag on the counter .
9 And Hilderbridge lay in the sunshine , its slate roofs all turned to planes of silver , its spires sharp needles , as if a silversmith had made it and dropped it in the valley between the meadows and the moor .
10 In the latest issue of Moscow News , Daniil Granin said Czechoslovakia 's efforts to create ‘ socialism with a human face ’ was ‘ the first perestroika in socialist countries , and we crushed it and slandered it .
11 Ruthven had his cat with him , stroking it and muttering something — I could not tell whether he was talking to himself or his pet .
12 But help is there for those who need it and seek it .
13 Somehow it always righted itself and reached the front , where new hands seized it and raised it high so that everyone could see it .
14 on nine , facing Tufnell , digs out a full-length ball and guides it down on the off side , poor old David Lawrence has to give another painful chase their from backward point , but er , he lumbers after it and sends it an energetic return on the er , he 's swivelling round as he threw it .
15 I slid a fingernail under it and peeled it away , leaving a tiny redness on the skin .
16 It was too much but she loved him for it and let him kiss her when he came and stood beside her again .
17 JEWKES : He is my master and if he bids me do anything I can do I think I ought to do it and let him who has power to command me look to the lawfulness of it .
18 Usually , I know exactly what I want , but it is much better if you can get other people to do it and let them take the credit .
19 That 's it and let them , let them get on with it in the middle of bloody summer with a pint of water and say , look , that pint of water has to last you the day .
20 ‘ Come on , Terry , just mend it and let me get out of here . ’
21 I would encourage you to read it and let me have your views as soon as possible .
22 When we get back to the house , Marie gives me the key to the door and I unlock it and let her go in first .
23 Says Ken : ‘ I just read the Echo while she 's doing it and let her get on with it .
24 Says Ken : ‘ I just read the Echo while she 's doing it and let her get on with it .
25 But I said , it is , yeah , that 's what I saying i Mary was so delighted because I took it and let her see it .
26 And then they used to leave it and let us wait and this that and the other you know .
27 ‘ Think about it and let us know when you get back — we wo n't pressure you , but I know you 'd have nothing to do but relax and be your wondrous self . ’
28 Get on with it and let us back in It is a drill I suppose , is it ?
29 just read up on it and let us know !
30 Terror gripped her so completely that she was incapable of opening it and let it fall to the floor where — she very nearly followed it in a faint .
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