Example sentences of "it and [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruthven had his cat with him , stroking it and muttering something — I could not tell whether he was talking to himself or his pet . |
| 2 | As so often , first idea best , though you only discover that when you 've decided to discard it and try something else . |
| 3 | However , shortly before the List 's publication , I received a visit from Harold Evans , then the editor of the Sunday Times , who came to breakfast and rather slyly asked if I had seen it ; to which I replied that I had not seen it and knew nothing of its contents . |
| 4 | James , one of the best writers who out of love for the old detective story has taken it and made something more of it , once summed it up very neatly . |
| 5 | He lay there , listening to the noises in the street , quite tranquilly ; not caring much how the time went , but watching it and watching everything about him with observing eyes ( 2 ) . |
| 6 | [ Dombey and Son , Ch 16 ] The artlessness of the child 's mind is reflected partly in the repetitions " watching it and watching everything " and " deepen , deepen , deepen " ; in the use of common words , especially those with monosyllabic stems : " he thought how the long streets were dotted with lamps " , " and now he thought how black it was " ; and in the way the cohesion of the passage rests on the subject pronoun he and the conjunction and . |
| 7 | Sentences ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) illustrate the point : ( 2 ) He lay there listening to the noises not caring how time went but watching it and watching everything … ( 3 ) When the sunbeams struck into his room and quivered on the opposite wall through the rustling blinds like golden water he knew that evening was coming on , and that the sky was red and beautiful . |
| 8 | The second is that it allows you to make a fast flank attack on the end of the enemy 's line with the possibility of rolling along it and taking lots of his troops in the flanks . |
| 9 | Carter praises her for transcending the naturalistic , however — for taking off from it and creating something original . |
| 10 | He is absolutely amazed by it and spends lots of time in a garage at the back , which actually means that I spend an awful lot of time in that garage in the cold too ! |
| 11 | He is absolutely amazed by it and spends lots of time in the garage and the back , which actually means that I spend an awful lot of time in that garage in the cold too . |
| 12 | He is absolutely amazed by it and spends lots of time in a garage at the back , which actually means that I spend an awful lot of time in that garage in the cold too ! |
| 13 | We 'll probably take this on paper , so the reason it 's on the agenda is to tell you as a department that we 've had this sent to us , erm we 've got a meeting later this week to actually sit down and analyse it and to put something on paper to send up to command . |
| 14 | While a small crowd collected around the barrel-organ , a policeman idled across to the pile of rags , thrust his boot into it and said something inaudible . |
| 15 | It developed into a bubble , and holders — people who bought for business reasons — began to outnumber users , those who looked at it and got something out of it . |
| 16 | and then tomorrow you can take everything off right , everything , dust it and rearrange everything , okay ? |
| 17 | Comfort shook it and murmured something formally polite , but she looked him over in rather obvious disdain , tilting back her small head to see his face . |
| 18 | Either save it and get something top-of-the-range or stay with the cheap one if it works . |
| 19 | Everyone else had gone to Japan and I was still in New York trying desperately to get a visa for Russia but I could n't get one , so I convince Tony deFries that if I went to Japan and went to the Russian Embassy in Tokyo , they 'd be so confused by an American applying for a visa in Tokyo 's Embassy that i could fake it and get one , and he said I was welcome to try . |
| 20 | The robot watched the animal and touched it and measured everything . |
| 21 | It describes the situation in Scotland as I see it and contains nothing confidential ! ’ |
| 22 | Moan about it and do nothing like all of them . |
| 23 | But then they may take it and do nothing . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ You can point at any object on the screen , click on it and do everything you could possibly do to that object without having to remember any instructions , ’ says Ms Reay . |
| 25 | Drill it and do everything . |
| 26 | Presumably if , if people ca n't get to Sunday School , you would hear about it and do something about it |
| 27 | Try reading it , try reading it some time because what it says to the people of is , if you do n't like the level of services being provided by your Council , if you feel your Council are not giving you value for money , then we 're gon na give you the right to complain about it and do something . |
| 28 | Well you must have left but then the bet was if Charlie could do it and do something like splits in the middle or something , ca n't remember what it was , then I w |
| 29 | they snapped it up at that price that his er sold and then they could n't pay er when , when the time came , you know the everything went off , so they sold it and bought something else and they 've made a lot of money on that so they 've paid it off and have er a lot of money on the house |
| 30 | Of course , I had opened it and found nothing more than a piece of costly silk , blood-red and fringed at each end . |