Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Originally six absconded from a local farm and successfully made it to the mill in a lorry chassis , however they had dwindled to a single cockerel . |
| 2 | He moved from St James 's Hall to a large , sedate house in Lime Grove , and swiftly converted it into a combination of a commercial office , a factory and a school of physical culture . |
| 3 | Temple was sincere in his desire to preserve native society from too sudden change : he enjoyed its idiosyncrasies , respected its vitality , and greatly loved it as an unkempt garden in which the product of a more ordered civilization might find repose . |
| 4 | He took hold of her hand and gently directed it under the blanket which shrouded him . |
| 5 | She reached up and gently touched it as the pall-bearers halted at the spot where her mother , on holiday from Rochdale , Lancs , was gunned down by mistake by an IRA sniper in Belfast last Friday . |
| 6 | After Brundle 's Jaguar took off like a scalded cat , it was Mass who hunted it down , and soon engaged it in a lurid battle . |
| 7 | Even Marguerite 's tight shoulders relaxed and , as he slowed the car and finally brought it to a halt before the house , Alain made a sound of deep satisfaction . |
| 8 | Carl Glenn , a commission investigator , describing events in El Chorrillo , a poor , primarily Black neighbourhood located near the Panamanian Defense Force headquarters , where 10,000 were made homeless , said : US troops bombed the community , shelled it with heavy artillery , strafed it and finally burned it to the ground . |
| 9 | We tried tooth and nail and finally impaled it on a thorn tree , tugging at it until the branch flew off and hurtled us into a ditch . |
| 10 | Now extremely overweight and looking older than his sixty-five years , Brando spurns most film offers , although he appeared in The Freshman in 1989 and promptly denounced it to the world before it was even in the can . |
| 11 | In the end , he did n't — he started bouncing , so he got one hard wallop and promptly jumped it from a standstill . |
| 12 | He laid siege to the fortress and gradually weakened it to the point of collapse . |
| 13 | Phoebe loathed housekeeping so profoundly that she felt guilty about it and always did it with a disciplined and joyless rigour , expecting everyone else to do so too . |
| 14 | ‘ You made me squash it , ’ snapped Victoria and pettishly threw it across the room , where it struck the sleeping dog sharply on the flank . |
| 15 | He lightly scored his finger on the edge of the spur , gasped and quickly dipped it in the bowl of water on the lavarium before bathing it in a little wine . |
| 16 | You wanted to hear all that stuff about nipples and erections and squeezing and pushing — how we fell onto the bed and nearly crashed it through the floor ? |
| 17 | In the second century B.C. the Romans had gained control of the Sacred island of Delos in the Cyclades and later established it as a commercial trading post in the Mediterranean . |
| 18 | It was a bird that would appeal to popular sentiment ; indeed , Gould advocated its adoption as Australia 's national bird , and later used it as a motif on the covers of his Birds of Australia series , showing the male lyre-bird with the beautiful lyre-shaped plumes of its tail raised in courtship . |
| 19 | The following day , Elinor again hid her medication under her tongue , slipped it into her handkerchief , and later flushed it down the lavatory . |
| 20 | It was released in December 1945 , to an overwhelmingly positive critical response that praised its ‘ maturity ’ and ‘ realism ’ , and also hailed it as the latest success from the Coward/Lean ‘ team ’ , which had , during the Second World War , produced three notably successful films , namely In Which We Serve ( 1942 ) , This Happy Breed ( 1944 ) , and Blithe Spirit ( 1945 ) . |
| 21 | He was handsome in an altogether splendid way and probably knew it by the haughty way he behaved . |
| 22 | He gave her an estate at Alva as a dowry and probably accompanied it with a large sum of money . |
| 23 | In fact Pachycephalosaurus had a 10-inch thick skull , and probably used it as a battering ram in ritual contests . |
| 24 | Then , after a moment 's thought , she also removed the package she 'd brought with her , and carefully stowed it in the drawer of the bedside table . |
| 25 | Charles took his bride 's hand and tenderly kissed it on the banks of the River Dee . |
| 26 | They ‘ hot-wired ’ a prison van and repeatedly rammed it into a security gate . |
| 27 | Obviously a transfer of allegiance in the feudal way was much less of a strain than the submergence of a national spirit , and there was a great difference between the national spirit of Englishmen and the allegiance to the King of France or to the Great Moghul felt by the inhabitants of New France and of Bengal ; if the inhabitants of Bengal had felt that they were citizens of the nation of Bengal it would hardly have been possible for them to change to feeling they were Englishmen , but for them to feel that they used to owe allegiance to the Nawab of Bengal and now owed it to the British businessmen who had conquered the Nawab was not such a difficult transition . |
| 28 | Once again demonstrating the resilience which had become a characteristic of his candidacy , Clinton campaigned strongly in New York , and even chose it as the venue for his first foreign policy speech since December . |
| 29 | Seeing this we panicked , and high tailed it out the back of the graveyard ; cursing and falling over each other all the way . |
| 30 | She put out a finger and tentatively slid it over the thin plastic through which the knickers , crumpled and stained round the crotch , were clearly visible . |