Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Originally six absconded from a local farm and successfully made it to the mill in a lorry chassis , however they had dwindled to a single cockerel . |
| 2 | He took hold of her hand and gently directed it under the blanket which shrouded him . |
| 3 | She reached up and gently touched it as the pall-bearers halted at the spot where her mother , on holiday from Rochdale , Lancs , was gunned down by mistake by an IRA sniper in Belfast last Friday . |
| 4 | Carl Glenn , a commission investigator , describing events in El Chorrillo , a poor , primarily Black neighbourhood located near the Panamanian Defense Force headquarters , where 10,000 were made homeless , said : US troops bombed the community , shelled it with heavy artillery , strafed it and finally burned it to the ground . |
| 5 | Now extremely overweight and looking older than his sixty-five years , Brando spurns most film offers , although he appeared in The Freshman in 1989 and promptly denounced it to the world before it was even in the can . |
| 6 | He laid siege to the fortress and gradually weakened it to the point of collapse . |
| 7 | ‘ You made me squash it , ’ snapped Victoria and pettishly threw it across the room , where it struck the sleeping dog sharply on the flank . |
| 8 | He lightly scored his finger on the edge of the spur , gasped and quickly dipped it in the bowl of water on the lavarium before bathing it in a little wine . |
| 9 | You wanted to hear all that stuff about nipples and erections and squeezing and pushing — how we fell onto the bed and nearly crashed it through the floor ? |
| 10 | The following day , Elinor again hid her medication under her tongue , slipped it into her handkerchief , and later flushed it down the lavatory . |
| 11 | It was released in December 1945 , to an overwhelmingly positive critical response that praised its ‘ maturity ’ and ‘ realism ’ , and also hailed it as the latest success from the Coward/Lean ‘ team ’ , which had , during the Second World War , produced three notably successful films , namely In Which We Serve ( 1942 ) , This Happy Breed ( 1944 ) , and Blithe Spirit ( 1945 ) . |
| 12 | He was handsome in an altogether splendid way and probably knew it by the haughty way he behaved . |
| 13 | Then , after a moment 's thought , she also removed the package she 'd brought with her , and carefully stowed it in the drawer of the bedside table . |
| 14 | Charles took his bride 's hand and tenderly kissed it on the banks of the River Dee . |
| 15 | Obviously a transfer of allegiance in the feudal way was much less of a strain than the submergence of a national spirit , and there was a great difference between the national spirit of Englishmen and the allegiance to the King of France or to the Great Moghul felt by the inhabitants of New France and of Bengal ; if the inhabitants of Bengal had felt that they were citizens of the nation of Bengal it would hardly have been possible for them to change to feeling they were Englishmen , but for them to feel that they used to owe allegiance to the Nawab of Bengal and now owed it to the British businessmen who had conquered the Nawab was not such a difficult transition . |
| 16 | Once again demonstrating the resilience which had become a characteristic of his candidacy , Clinton campaigned strongly in New York , and even chose it as the venue for his first foreign policy speech since December . |
| 17 | Seeing this we panicked , and high tailed it out the back of the graveyard ; cursing and falling over each other all the way . |
| 18 | She put out a finger and tentatively slid it over the thin plastic through which the knickers , crumpled and stained round the crotch , were clearly visible . |
| 19 | He did discover a serious oil leak in its engine late last year and immediately changed it for the spare he keeps in what looks like a glass case in his garage . |
| 20 | Brian needed to shit so I gave him a plastic bag and then left it in the bathroom . |
| 21 | Her father tapped the ash off his cigarette into his cupped hand and then blew it into the air . |
| 22 | In other words , they created a self-image and then sold it to the greater powers of western Europe ; and whatever their reaction , be it incredulous , admiring or contemptuous , these powers now found it impossible to ignore the Scots ' insistent demands that they should be noticed . |
| 23 | He drew one out , bit off its tip and then lit it with the licking tongue of his petrol lighter . |
| 24 | This is a rather strange piece of behaviour , which gave rise in the l9th century to the belief that the female cuckoo swallowed her egg after laying it and then regurgitated it into the host 's nest . |
| 25 | Wiping his hands on a towel , he opened it up , stretched it a couple of times , and then slipped it in the pocket of his dirty apron . |
| 26 | He held it up for the others to see and then threw it at the thin man contemptuously who automatically caught it in both hands . |
| 27 | He took another length of rope , and lovingly wound it around the post and her waist . |
| 28 | His ‘ act as if you own the place ’ approach seemed to work , and he made it to the double doors that opened into the main tunnel complex , not even pausing as he attached a circuit board to a second brick and casually tossed it into the heart of the pile of drums on the dock nearby . |
| 29 | they 're , went to all that trouble to produce a good photograph , and absolutely ruined it with the stool . |
| 30 | Linda appeared with her bicycle , and reluctantly returned it to the gloom of the garage when Chrissie called to her to do so . |