Example sentences of "and [vb past] it [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And made it more black letter . |
| 2 | He collected his coat and draped it over one shoulder . |
| 3 | It was on Stephen Leacock 's advice that I tried my hand at writing humour and found it very arduous work ; writing ordinary prose was hard enough , but trying to make it funny was even harder . |
| 4 | Portraying 80 years of Queen Victoria 's life in 2 hours , she starred in the role for 517 performances on Broadway , and played it over 400 times more in a 1937-38 tour that grossed an unheard-of $1.2 million at the box office . |
| 5 | Then he screwed up the bag and threw it about two feet away . |
| 6 | She 'd tacked a few scraps of old cotton into a baby-gown too and sent it round next door for the new Rattrie baby , born very inconveniently , as it turned out , the day after the funeral , her fit of generosity entirely misplaced , since the child had only lived a few hours and the gown — upon which Odette had worked a few hasty stitches of embroidery — had ended up in the pawnshop — Cara had seen it herself in the window — to help pay , she supposed , for yet another infantile disposal . |
| 7 | For two years the Italians and Germans launched air raids , blockaded the island to the verge of starvation , and kept it under constant threat of invasion . |
| 8 | Leaving Harry briefly I went to the dinghy and heaved it over right side up . |
| 9 | His daughter Beattie was born in the Bulls Head , and took it over 44 years ago . |
| 10 | Anyway , I resealed the file and took it back this morning . ’ |
| 11 | Her own college , at first encounter , struck her as somewhat dimly conformist , with long brown corridors and an unexpectedly high proportion of young women apparently wrapped up in the triumphs of yesteryear on the hockey field or in the prefects ' Common Room , but even there she had discovered part of what she was looking for : in the persons of Liz Ablewhite ( now Headleand ) and Esther Breuer ( still Breuer ) she had discovered it , and rediscovered it there each time she met them , which was , these days , on average once a fortnight . |
| 12 | From telephone surveys and detailed representative group discussions , the planners developed the programme 's shape — the neighbourhood , story line , characters — and launched it successfully four years later . |