Example sentences of "it and [v-ing] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he had written all over this one — the handwriting was unmistakable — before tearing it and throwing it on the floor . |
| 2 | When property passes on death , it will go in the first instance to the executor appointed by will , or the administrator appointed by the court , who are charged with the duty of dealing with it and transferring it to the persons entitled ( see p. 114 ) . |
| 3 | Worst of all , her self-image was low with the best years of her life fast disappearing , taking her previous good health with it and leaving her with the excess baggage . |
| 4 | The backing sheet is then removed from the film before wetting it and applying it to the window . |
| 5 | the gathering up of all this scattered craft knowledge , systematising it and concentrating it in the hands of the employer and then doling it out again only in the form of minute instructions , giving to each worker only the knowledge needed for the performance of a particular relatively minute task . |
| 6 | It involves sucking the contaminated oil into a cleaning system housed in a mobile trailer , cleaning it and returning it to the transformer . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're sending it and keeping it at the same time ? ’ |
| 8 | It moves me playing it and it upsets me playing it , it 's very upsetting to play Alfie , because A he 's such a disastrous man as a person d you know you think oh god I do n't really wan na be playing this man for sixteen weeks but the part is so wonderful and the play is so rich that you ca n't help s sort of s submitting to it and putting yourself in the position of being a masochist I suppose . |