Example sentences of "it [adv prt] and [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can you help out ? he 's paying in gold and you can melt it down and make a new battleaxe that will never go rusty . |
| 2 | He made me put it down and began a long , fast conversation with the soldier . |
| 3 | MR ASHDOWN , the Liberal Democrat leader , stressed yesterday that without a commitment to proportional representation in the Queen 's Speech the Liberal Democrats would seek to vote it down and force a second general election . |
| 4 | It was an old house there and that 's what she said , it was derelict , they knocked it down and rebuilt the new one . |
| 5 | She lifted it down and read the brief note inside . |
| 6 | The wind has battered this aviary a lot and the wire needs replacing — in fact , when I can afford it I 'm going to knock it down and build a new one , but it 's been very useful over the years . |
| 7 | Later I thought it through and decided a big part of it was that , although he was coining it from the teds , I think he felt he was seen — by his peers — as an artistic cretin . |
| 8 | Even when she had turned it over and seen the franked stamps she was childishly afraid . |
| 9 | He pulled it off and felt the cold air bite into his hot skin , his scanty hair standing up and waving gently in the breeze . |
| 10 | He nodded his satisfaction and let go , and she wrenched it off and took a deep breath . |
| 11 | I 'm not turn it off and re-wind the fucking thing . |
| 12 | I 'd far sooner take it off and do a proper job but well |
| 13 | He said : ‘ They 've struck it off and look a great combination . ’ |
| 14 | Well I think it 's best to , yeah yeah , I mean o the best thing to do is actually lift it up and use a little bit of the underneath to try out the colours what colour 's that going to be ? |
| 15 | He picked it up and tapped the old tobacco out onto the range . |
| 16 | ‘ She covers it up and tells the little girl it 's full of fairies and pretty make-believe so she must n't be scared , and she tells the boy it 's really there , dead , under the shawl . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ No it 's the phone , ’ said Ellen , who picked it up and had a pretend conversation in her undifferentiated monotone . |
| 18 | Er and they 're very sensitive to that and they pick it up and make the most of it . |
| 19 | But as you are determined to live it up and have a good time , you must watch your health and try not to burn the candle at both ends . |
| 20 | But , when she picked it up and gasped a breathless ‘ hello ’ , the voice that answered was n't Luke at all . |
| 21 | In the chip shop we bought some fish out the fryer and put in the top and straight away got them bloody tongs picked it up and poured the bloody grease off it and put it in the bloody bag thought it was terrible . |
| 22 | She was going to cope , to face this , to brave it out and lay a certain ghost . |
| 23 | She pulled her jumper off and handed it to him , then watched as he spread it out and laid the dead animal on it . |
| 24 | ‘ Now take it out and keep a firm hold on it . |
| 25 | We might have to , we might be able to get away without having to take the board out , if I if I use the old de- solderer might be able to just hook it out and put the next one in . |
| 26 | It was on display for the day and was being steamed so that the boiler inspectors could check it out and issue the necessary documents confirming that it was tested and available to work . |
| 27 | You should put it in your building society and then draw it out and get a few bob on it . |
| 28 | It was a huge house , too big to survive as a single occupied unit ; a developer had stripped it out and done a thorough conversion to make it into four self-contained apartments with only the hall and stairs common to each . |
| 29 | Get it out and take a close look at it . |
| 30 | So Oh I say , I 'll cut it out and make a wee hole and transport part of the wood work across the window . |