Example sentences of "[vb past] and [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The process was patented by Squire in 1875 , and Squire and Messel described and demonstrated it before the Chemical Society the following April . |
| 2 | So remorseful was Shiva that he took the head of the first creature he encountered and placed it on the boy 's shoulders . |
| 3 | You felt , tasted and swallowed it in an effort to breathe . |
| 4 | He both expected and accepted it as a matter of course . |
| 5 | She dressed in black trousers and a white blouse with long full sleeves , brushed her hair till it shone and twisted it into a tight knot on top of her head , thinking with satisfaction that Roman would n't like it but she was n't about to let him dictate how she wore her hair , or dressed . |
| 6 | The strange boy grinned and wiped it on the seat of his shorts . |
| 7 | She pulled and patted it into a comfortable pad and Midnight slumped down , leaning forward against his crooked legs , his hands draped over his knees . |
| 8 | One day Tod took from the trash a framed certificate and went and hung it on the toilet doornail . |
| 9 | Watford were the better team in the second half they pulled level with a header from Julian Alsford and went and won it in the very last minute with a great strike from Gary Porter … |
| 10 | Watford were the better team in the second half they pulled level with a header from Julian Alsford and went and won it in the very last minute with a great strike from Gary Porter … |
| 11 | But he , he give him three thousand in readies and he went and wrapped it round a blooming tree on top of the Molton Road ! |
| 12 | A horse called Metronome and a rider called Pippa Nolan set the pace over the cross country course at Blenheim on Saturday … second after the dressage they pushed into the lead … a re-run of last year when Pippa went and lost it on the showjumping … this year the field was even tougher |
| 13 | Also a photo of all the officers of Walsall that I saw in a second hand shop and I went and bought it for a few pence . |
| 14 | Ember seized and aimed it at the control panel beside the door and the room went as dark as it could with the little amber safety-lights glimmering in case of accident . |
| 15 | ‘ I use this for sticking pigs , ’ he said , giving me a mysterious smile , gesturing with the ugly blade across his uncovered throat , then laughing , flicking it shut and thrusting it into a long pocket in the side of his dusty black corduroys . |
| 16 | He took a cheap cigarette out of his jacket pocket , paused and lit it with a match in his cupped hand . |
| 17 | ‘ It was hers , ’ he said and hurled it into the pool . |
| 18 | Finally he stood and placed it at the head of the mound . |