Example sentences of "it [adv prt] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | You sprinkle it on and then cut the pie into pieces . ’ |
| 2 | So she 'd try it on and it would n't fit . |
| 3 | I had almost consciously to go out of the house in the morning with a smile fixed on my face , keep it on and breathe an air of absolute confidence when I was feeling anything but that way inclined . |
| 4 | Tolkien never finished the Kay of Leithian , though he worked at it on and off far seven years , composing at least two versions of the poem in more than four thousand lines of octosyllabic couplets . |
| 5 | Forsyth forced a corner on the left , Beagrie swung the ball towards the near post , Adams nodded it on and Wise forced in England 's first goal at the far post . |
| 6 | Just catch some unsuspecting psychopathic bee , strap it on and watch it go . |
| 7 | He put it on and leant back against Lee . |
| 8 | We decided to keep it on and sub-let it as the rent was so low . ’ |
| 9 | The ‘ cure ’ to all pullers , we are frequently told , is to let the horse gallop , and when it is tired to push it on and on and on ! |
| 10 | But he did not admit defeat to the extent of turning the television off ; he simply left it on and went into another room . |
| 11 | He plonked it on and got his first four . |
| 12 | Well we knocked it on and made four but poor old Tommy had a disaster . |
| 13 | He began to fiddle with the hat , made to put it on and then changed his mind . |
| 14 | Nails said , towards the kitchen door , ‘ I 'm goin' out , ’ picked up a leather jacket that lay on the floor , shrugged it on and opened the door again . |
| 15 | Then , putting it on and pulling the collar tight about her throat , she lit the candle that was standing in a holder on her bedside table , and went quietly out and along the corridor to the kitchen , through it and into the scullery , where they had a running tap above a shallow stone sink . |
| 16 | As the older generations who had kept up the tradition passed away , there were not so many young people in the village to carry it on and they had left to find employment and housing in the towns . |
| 17 | He could switch it on and off like central heating . |
| 18 | She had put it on and taken it off three times ; it now lay on the chair beside her . |
| 19 | Zach put it on and when the jacket was done up it looked as if he was wearing a proper dress shirt . |
| 20 | This is the type of garment that always looks good as soon as you put it on and makes you feel comfortable and at ease , whatever the occasion . |
| 21 | At last , wonder of wonders it was finished for the second time , I tried it on and it drowned me . |
| 22 | Then he switched it on and laughed as she was jolted round and round . |
| 23 | Unless the agent can give you figures showing that it really will pay you to cash in your present policy and take out a completely new one , keep it on and top it up with another , smaller policy . |
| 24 | She switched it on and traced its sensitive receiver over the door and surrounding floor area . |
| 25 | If you take on a project , you take it on and put everything into it . ’ |
| 26 | She wanted to do that with him , yes , actually that ; she thought about it on and on and waited all week for the moment that might or might not come on Sunday morning in church when , as her cousins went first down the aisle , Tristram glanced in her direction and their eyes met and she was able to send a thought message which said to him , yes , I have n't forgotten . |
| 27 | I have turned it on and it is doing its little best but our guests from the south are obviously |
| 28 | Er , after I had my children my whole body sagged and I 'd lost a lot of weight and I could n't put it on and I was really skinny and there was no way I could eat , eat a lot and I still would n't put weight on so I started on the weight training and that does n't cost me money and now I 've started putting weight on , so for the skinny kids I think the thing is to do the weight training |
| 29 | so many of the teachers that teach it are far too embarrassed to broach the subject sensibly , you know , and they just pass it on and so kids do n't treat it sensibly . |
| 30 | When Ernest left , Rosie tried it on and the two dressmakers stood back to survey their handiwork . |