Example sentences of "and [vb past] it [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hollins , a cotton broker who was ignorant of the fraud , bought it from B and resold it to another person , receiving only broker 's commission . |
| 2 | He suddenly thought of the hat she had lost , searched for it , and found it among some leaves on the ground . |
| 3 | He could mend any broken toy , and make things too — I remember he made a great big rocking-horse for Hilary , and painted it in all sorts of marvellous colours . |
| 4 | Then he opened the cage , took out the part ( which now looked slightly different ) and dropped it into another bin . |
| 5 | He opened the camera , took out the film and handed it with another smile to the man with the spoonbill nose . |
| 6 | They passed two landings , Gordon following her with majestic tread , but faster than one might expect , since although he had lost time in hanging up his raincoat in the hall , he reached the door first , and opened it without any kind of announcement , and Edward was standing , with his back to them at first , thinner and smaller than she remembered , but then she always made the mistake when she had n't seen him for a bit — he turned round , protesting , and it was Edward . |
| 7 | He groped his way through the shadows at the foot of the stairs , located the large brass handle and turned it with both hands . |
| 8 | Military engineers would have worked out this information , and fed it into each missile , many months before . |
| 9 | And Jimmy had grabbed up a nearby typist 's chair from behind the screen and raised it with both hands like some huge club , ready to smash it across Duvall 's face . |
| 10 | I returned it to the centre and exchanged it for another kit which also gave me a zero reading . |
| 11 | This case was so complex and difficult that it filled many books of written record and there was so much opposing evidence that it was difficult to get at the truth , but he at last clarified everything and settled it with such skill and wisdom that all commended his extreme cleverness . |
| 12 | ‘ It was only a postcard photo and I gave it spirituality , animation and took it to another vocabulary ’ . |
| 13 | Cadfael stooped and took it in both hands , and lifted it , and it parted from its setting without trailing a blade of grass or a torn edge of moss . |
| 14 | He reached for the case and took it in both hands . |
| 15 | A fortnight later Edward sealed the text and issued it to all sheriffs . |
| 16 | The amount of RNA synthesized was unrelated to motor activity or any measure of stress that we could identify ( for instance how much the birds peeped or twittered ) , but it was strongly correlated with their preference score ; that is , the more the chicks had learned about the flashing light and preferred it to any alternative , the more RNA was synthesized in their forebrain roof . |
| 17 | The new army had to hold the Western Front after the demoralization of the French , following General Nivelle 's failed offensive of 16 April-21 May 1917 and did it with such success , that Allied victory became a possibility in 1918 . |
| 18 | When Councillor and his Party showed the care and concern they have for our staff , when sixty members of our staff on that day attended a committee meeting of this Council to see the Labour leader open it and shut it without any debate whatsoever and walk out of the room . |
| 19 | And had it in any case anything to do with Francis Garland being shot through the head ? |
| 20 | However , he eventually sold it , and replaced it with another model . |
| 21 | 21 ) who explicitly rejected the ‘ classical doctrine ’ of democracy , according to which it embodies distinctive ideals concerning participation in political life and the relationship between political leaders and the people , and replaced it by another theory of democracy as ‘ competition for political leadership ’ : ‘ the democratic method is that institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people 's vote ’ ( p. 269 ) . |
| 22 | But one lad messed about and pushed it through those holes . |
| 23 | I 've spotted it in lots of people and suspected it in most others . |
| 24 | It would be interesting to know , however , whether the intensity of the debate at the time served to sear the official mind and closed it for many years afterwards to consideration of an alternative policy for sterling which substantially reduced its international role . |