Example sentences of "and [vb past] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nathan closed the folder and laid it on the starched tablecloth . |
| 2 | He dropped a long , searching kiss on her mouth , then took her shaking hand and laid it against the powerful , overpowering size of his arousal . |
| 3 | When he had begun to eat , I'tibar Khan entered with the box and laid it before the unhappy father , saying : ‘ King Aurangzeb , your son sends this plat to your majesty to let you see that he does not forget you . ’ |
| 4 | It became known as the Pleven Plan , named after the French premier , René Pleven , who took an outline drafted by his earlier mentor , Jean Monnet , and laid it before the French Parliament on 24 October 1950 . |
| 5 | He took the ladder and slung it into the snow-covered bushes . |
| 6 | They seem to have bullied him and made him er , make concessions , and the question that Freud and Bullett constantly ask is , why did Wilson make these concessions , especially since his position was already defined before he came to Europe , you know he already laid down the fourteen points , and sold it to the American people . |
| 7 | Troopers lifted the throne from its staging and passed it to the waiting hands below . |
| 8 | She took off everything that could identify her , and stowed it in the bottom layer of her jewellery box . |
| 9 | With that he snatched up the bottle and flung it through the open window into the yard . |
| 10 | Here , he introduced into New Testament criticism the idea of ‘ myth ’ , and applied it to the supernatural elements in the gospels . |
| 11 | By the latter half of the century , the majority of books on child care — which were enjoying a tremendous popularity — strongly recommended breast-feeding and described it as the normal practice ( Fildes 1980 ) . |
| 12 | Again he made an early break and sustained it throughout the four-lap race . |
| 13 | President Arpad Göncz , himself imprisoned for six years for joining the 1956 uprising , had refused to sign the bill and referred it to the Constitutional Court , whose unanimous ruling described the law as " vague , ambiguous and unreliable " . |
| 14 | He felt for Thomas 's hand and wrung it in the momentary blindness after the torch was quenched against the rock . |
| 15 | He won East Bristol in 1900 and retained it in the general elections of 1906 and 1910 . |
| 16 | Mitchell 's pass found Wright , who slipped but regained possession of the ball and squared it to the far post , where McGinlay was lying in wait to beat Nelson from inside the six-yard box . |
| 17 | Immediately the current caught the oil-drum and with Simon still clinging to it , whisked it off down to the Lock and crashed it into the wooden gates . |
| 18 | I took out my knife and drove it through the sleeping man 's heart ! |
| 19 | This he derisively referred to as ‘ sociologism ’ and distinguished it from the true activity of sociology , the study of social action . |
| 20 | Following her instructions to the letter , I took the centre stitch and transferred it to the adjacent needle . |
| 21 | He had brought his telescope ashore with him and mounted it in the little dormer window high up under the eaves of the steep-pitched east-facing gable of his house . |
| 22 | As they longed for a spiritual assurance of Christ 's presence and received it in the Holy Spirit which literally inspired in them knowledge and love of God so the meditator may grow in inner spiritual knowledge ( c.33 , 36 ) . |
| 23 | Absently she twitched a fading tulip from its vase and dropped it into the waste-paper basket . |
| 24 | He lifted it up and dropped it in the white plastic bag which lines the litter bin . |
| 25 | I snatched my miniature of whisky and lifted it towards the raised glasses at home , before stepping outside to watch those stars to the left of Polaris which would be blinking over Manchester . |
| 26 | He watched in horrified fascination as the lieutenant took out a single match and poised it over the striking strip . |
| 27 | He waited for a moment while Mr Hellyer removed another paving stone and added it to the growing pile in the hedge . |
| 28 | Kāli refilled her pan with plaster and kneaded it to the right consistency . |
| 29 | He had a torch , and shone it round the little entrance hall . |
| 30 | She stood up slowly and showed it to the bearded man . |