Example sentences of "and [vb past] it [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And … and she grabbed the rope round the mule 's neck and … and led it away to safety , leaving her husband lying in the road . |
| 2 | She read it twice and passed it over to Roman . |
| 3 | Then I picked up a pebble and flung it out to sea ; it rose straight up into the air and landed on the ground a few yards behind me . |
| 4 | A council inspector was called in to test the beer at the club in Bury St Edmunds , Suffolk … and found it up to strength . |
| 5 | They sucked it and licked it down to size . |
| 6 | They caught up with the truck and followed it back to camp . |
| 7 | I made a short story of the business and sent it up to Encounter , but the puritanical buggers in charge sent me a rejection slip ! |
| 8 | ‘ As you can see , I 've simplified it and brought it up to date … |
| 9 | After a while he made tea and brought it back to bed and they talked in a way she never could have with Mike , or anyone she knew , about Garstang 's book on the songs of birds and about Haydn 's Bird Quartet and Wagner 's bird music in Siegfried . |
| 10 | She made the coffee and brought it back to bed — a compromise . |
| 11 | In the end , she made herself a drink of hot milk with a dash of brandy and took it up to bed , taking along the hot water bottle for good measure . |
| 12 | It was ill , and she brought it in and nursed it back to health . |
| 13 | He shouldered the mattress and carried it back to Hut 2 , and slung it up onto his bunk , and threw the pillow and blanket after it . |
| 14 | Tom put the bone in his shirt and carried it back to camp ’ . |