Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [verb] it [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These include plungers , wormscrews ( for boring into a blockage and pulling it out ) , and scrapers for removing sludge and silt and either pushing it down the drain or pulling it back into the inspection chamber on which you are working . |
| 2 | He had taken one hand from the wheel and held it up in protest . |
| 3 | I understand that Wyre Borough Council are standardising all the play equipment throughout the borough and bringing it up to British Standards safety requirements . |
| 4 | It 's like I took a completed album of all kinds of different songs and threw it up in the air and it came crashing down . |
| 5 | The unarmed man then produced a buff-coloured plastic ID card and held it up in front of Vasili . |
| 6 | He ordered Rose to take one of Effie 's legs and lift it on to her shoulders , and McAllister the other , to make it easier for him to help the insistent baby on its way . |
| 7 | Yes , I think really it 's a er , faulty gene in the system and no matter how men hate women , the majority of men really like women other than perhaps envy , or jealousy , or women earning more than their husbands and throwing it back in them , in their face , but the main subject , the main point to me is , there is a faulty ge gene in their system and there 's no way you will eradicate that ! |
| 8 | Tie a cord to each bottom ring and thread it up through the rings on each tape . |
| 9 | Then he nodded at Benny who took the hammer and brought it back over his head , ready to smash it down on to the cartridge at a sign from his brother . |
| 10 | There was a warning glitter of laughter in his eyes , and casually he dropped his cigar to the terrace and ground it out under his heel , then moved a fraction closer to her . |
| 11 | Simply waggle the club and set it down in your normal address position . |
| 12 | We are very sorry we have caused any inconvenience to club and are hoping E McCormick accepts this letter of apology on our behalf club and puts it down to a mis-understanding by his supporters . |
| 13 | He got the top off and a cup poured before lowering himself gingerly back into the driving seat and passing it over to Catherine . |
| 14 | Pete lifted his knight but changed his mind and put it back on the board . |
| 15 | To read Tolkien , Morris , Hodgson , Wells and Verne , to mention a few of the most imaginative of authors is to expand the confines of the mind and to jolt it out of its habitual furrow . |
| 16 | He had to walk about three miles to collect the mail and carry it back to the village , for which a charge of sixpence per missive was made . |
| 17 | Firstly it belongs to John Major himself , for taking to the hustings , and restoring , a cutting edge to the party dialogue — and thus taking the Central Office by the scruff of the neck and lifting it out of the doldrums into which it had sunk . |
| 18 | The book traces his family history leading up to that midnight stroke and carries it through to the dark period of Mrs Gandhi 's emergency . |
| 19 | Should one of the fry slip from the nest the male will catch it in his mouth and spit it back into the nest . |
| 20 | I have never seen a player catch a football in his mouth and spit it back to his keeper before . |
| 21 | Darius grabs a wedge , ices it with half an inch of butter , crams it in his mouth and washes it down with a can of Coke . |
| 22 | He was obviously embarrassed at his lack of preparedness and when he saw me glance involuntarily at my watch he grew more agitated , pulling his pipe from his mouth and putting it back in again , tucking the hammer under his arm , rummaging in a large box of matches . |
| 23 | It was Marian who picked up a broken cross-bow from the debris piled about on the roof and held it out to Allen . |
| 24 | I baited a 6 's hook to 6lb b.s. line paternostered on a 1½ oz bomb with half a lobworm and sent it out to the marker . |
| 25 | After a while he made tea and brought it back to bed and they talked in a way she never could have with Mike , or anyone she knew , about Garstang 's book on the songs of birds and about Haydn 's Bird Quartet and Wagner 's bird music in Siegfried . |
| 26 | Jack thought to himself as he poured yet another cup of tea and took it back to his comfortable swivel chair . |
| 27 | George poured out her tea and took it in to her . |
| 28 | That 's fine , now all we 've got to do is to tidy up this end of the halyard and tuck it out of the way . |
| 29 | Alternatively , use standard furnishing fabric and match it up to other furnishings in the room . |
| 30 | THE EBDG group 's chairman , Paul Bennetts , has welcomed the Commons vote and followed it up with a plea to quickly rejoin the ERM . |