Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] it [prep] the " 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 | Having said that , he self-consciously dropped his gaze from her disappointed eyes and turned it to the multi-patterned carpet . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They took pictures and reported it to the RSPCA . |
| 7 | I put the small boat on my shoulders and carried it to the edge of the water , then I put it in the sea . |
| 8 | Impatiently he finished the task , ripping the material from his shoulders and tossing it to the floor . |
| 9 | Then the Scots raided down from the borders and put it to the torch . |
| 10 | I finished my list of demands and took it to the Branch Office , where I received something of a hero 's welcome . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The result is a tax designed to raise cash from better-off voters in safe Tory areas and push it towards the marginals . |
| 13 | Take it from the liquid , sprinkle it with oil , press it between two plates and leave it until the next day . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A rabbit dodged between her feet and made it to the hedgerow . |
| 16 | The first person puts the banana on their feet and passes it to the next . |
| 17 | Instinctively he waved it from his face before getting to his feet and brushing it from the lapels of his overcoat . |
| 18 | Suddenly the man bent and grabbed the leather thong , swinging the hound off its feet and hurling it against the tree . |
| 19 | Select chips and plan it round the chips ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Balberith ripped the remains of the fruit and salad bar from its mountings and flung it through the roof . |
| 22 | Anna picked up the saucepan into which she had been putting potatoes and transferred it to the stove . |
| 23 | Or you can scoop out the flesh of the potatoes and mix it with the sauce . |
| 24 | This enabled us to calculate the ratio of cortex to ganglion cells for the region enclosed within the labelled sites and to compare it with the same ratio obtained for the rest of the retina . |
| 25 | There was so much that we used to cut it into strips and string it from the eaves to dry in the wind and sun . |
| 26 | Silently he took the notebook from her nerveless fingers and dropped it on the floor . |
| 27 | With a lunge , he grabbed the bag from between her fingers and flung it across the parquet , where it landed with a thump before skidding to rest beneath a radiator , then before she could react to such a flare of violence he was reaching out for her , dragging her into his embrace , his lips ravening hungrily over her own with a fever of desire that sent shock waves of fear and desire quivering through her . |
| 28 | ‘ This crap , ’ Laura took the book from Rex 's fingers and struck it with the back of her hand . |
| 29 | Helplessly she watched him remove the key from her nerveless fingers and insert it into the lock where it turned easily , clicking the door open . |
| 30 | But cruelty in intensifying awareness contracts and withdraws it from the pleasures , even from pains not inflicted by the sadist himself . |