Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , take the legs and heave them up and over ; then grab the body by the arms or legs and drag it to the edge … no , that would n't be practicable , that way the killer would be moving backwards and be the first to fall . |
| 2 | It is quite commonplace for me to thrust my hand past my ferrets , grab a rabbit by its hind legs and pull it past the ferret . |
| 3 | But in order to understand the problems faced in accounting theory students must often look to the literature on business organizations and apply it to the public sector context , albeit with great caution and common sense . |
| 4 | Hall takes a Schumpeterian view of long waves and translates it into a geographical context . |
| 5 | Having said that , he self-consciously dropped his gaze from her disappointed eyes and turned it to the multi-patterned carpet . |
| 6 | We begin , however , with an examination of a recommendation which , when introduced , will take much of the control of pre-trial procedure out of the hands of the parties and place it under the control of the court . |
| 7 | Jelinek trained his system on a corpus of 1,500,000 words and tested it on a test corpus of 300,000 . |
| 8 | They took pictures and reported it to the RSPCA . |
| 9 | Children , particularly our own grandchildren I discovered er had got money in the building societies I mean we give them money for presents and throw it into a building society , and I said what 's happening about your , your tax ? |
| 10 | I put the small boat on my shoulders and carried it to the edge of the water , then I put it in the sea . |
| 11 | Impatiently he finished the task , ripping the material from his shoulders and tossing it to the floor . |
| 12 | This product grabs Windows by the lapels and uses it in a whole new way . |
| 13 | Then the Scots raided down from the borders and put it to the torch . |
| 14 | I finished my list of demands and took it to the Branch Office , where I received something of a hero 's welcome . |
| 15 | Jack had to fill the coal scuttles , Kevin to bring in the logs , Aengus had to roll yesterday 's papers into sausage-like shapes which would be used for lighting the fires later , Gerry , who was meant to be the animal lover , had to take Oswald for a run in the park , and see that there was something on the bird table in the garden , and Ronan had to open the big heavy curtains in the front rooms , take the milk in from the steps and place it in the big fridge and brush whatever had to be brushed from the big granite steps leading up to the house . |
| 16 | Edward of course was unaware of its connotations and encouraged it as a handsome and relatively uncommon plant . |
| 17 | She felt an overwhelming urge to lick her lips and fought it for a while till her treacherous tongue simply shot out — only to be retracted slowly , under Lucenzo 's predatory eyes . |
| 18 | The result is a tax designed to raise cash from better-off voters in safe Tory areas and push it towards the marginals . |
| 19 | After the new dpc has been installed it is essential to remove all the old plaster from the affected areas and replace it with a special waterproof plaster developed for the purpose . |
| 20 | Take it from the liquid , sprinkle it with oil , press it between two plates and leave it until the next day . |
| 21 | The aim here is to look at its political and social repercussions and to set it in the wider context of central-local administrative relations . |
| 22 | Polish Count recovers Leonardo 's ‘ Lady with the Ermine ’ from the Communists and donates it to a foundation |
| 23 | A rabbit dodged between her feet and made it to the hedgerow . |
| 24 | The first person puts the banana on their feet and passes it to the next . |
| 25 | Instinctively he waved it from his face before getting to his feet and brushing it from the lapels of his overcoat . |
| 26 | Suddenly the man bent and grabbed the leather thong , swinging the hound off its feet and hurling it against the tree . |
| 27 | Select chips and plan it round the chips ? |
| 28 | So , until EMI comes to its senses and restores it to the catalogue , the Nuova Era will have to stand as an adequate , if less than ideal stopgap . |
| 29 | Balberith ripped the remains of the fruit and salad bar from its mountings and flung it through the roof . |
| 30 | Anna picked up the saucepan into which she had been putting potatoes and transferred it to the stove . |