Example sentences of "it and [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not express what a privilege it has been transcribing it and entering your very mind and spirit in the throes of creativity , as it were . |
| 2 | Squatting down naked by the calf they stroked it and ran their small fingers through its coat . |
| 3 | I mean they put something round the mother 's tummy and they can see the heart beat beating , whereas we , if we wanted to know if the baby was alright and er it was n't getting distressed you 'd just put a , a cloth on the mummy 's tum and put your ear down to it and hear it that way . |
| 4 | Then she turned her head and stared to the top of her cage , and then flew darkly up to it and took her usual stance staring up , up now towards the moon and distant stars . |
| 5 | I polished the latches a bit with my shirtsleeve , then I put the briefcase back exactly as I 'd found it and took my leaf-trembling self along to the dining car , already regretting , before I got there , that I had n't stayed until the Canadian left , knowing that I 'd wasted some of the best and perhaps the only chance I would get of seeing what Filmer had brought with him on the train . |
| 6 | Maybe people will look at the squad , see I 'm out of it and assume my best days are over . |
| 7 | " Taking a spouse for granted " — in which , perhaps , something of the same reason exists — was listed by 7 per cent in respect of women and 21 per cent in respect of men ; how many men , once their wife 's attentions are taken up by child-rearing , leave them to get on with it and follow their own devices ? |
| 8 | He reached out and touched her shoulder , squeezed it and bade her good night . |
| 9 | He seemed very cheerful about it and chanted his ridiculous Ho ! |
| 10 | It should acknowledge what is confessional about itself too which compromises it and opposes its intended outcome of openness and tolerance . |
| 11 | She crossed to the wardrobe and opened it and saw her abandoned clothes hanging in a neat row . |
| 12 | Emily Lloyd really made an outing out of it and brought her whole family — her mother , grandmother , brother , sister … |
| 13 | The received wisdom in North Down is that Mr Kilfedder will shade it and begin his 23rd year as MP for the constituency . |
| 14 | To deal with it and to prevent its persistent effects on children , doctors and nurses need more training to develop their psychological awareness and their counselling skills . |
| 15 | She stood still for a moment and looked up and down the street ; it seemed to shine ; the light the sun had poured onto the packed dirt of the road glowed back pewter under the stars ; there was no longer any moon , it had set earlier that night , and the dimensions of the scene had expanded , creating a vacancy which made Rosa feel her pulse quicken , as if she too were growing , becoming less stubby , less compact , stretching upwards and turning silvery herself like the leaf of an olive when the breeze lifts it and shows its metallic underside . |
| 16 | It was therefore thought important to publicise again the condition and at the same time characterise it and discover its natural history using a larger number of cases . |
| 17 | Co-star Adam Faith — himself a big success as a pop star in the Sixties — knows all about making it and warned her that TV fame would have its price . |
| 18 | I recently had some bad news and everyone helped me through it and gave me great support . |
| 19 | Advanced Visual Sytems Inc , the Waltham , Massachusetts-based spin-out from now defunct Stardent Computer Systems Inc , is attempting to put the past behind it and do its own thing with former parent 's flagship graphics software environment , the Application Visualisation System . |
| 20 | An unmarked police car had been detailed to shadow it and report its ultimate destination . |
| 21 | Fronting the object , on the other hand , foregrounds it and gives it local prominence ( cf. A great deal of publicity was received in China and A great deal of publicity the book received in China ) . |
| 22 | Then I felt a fool and decided to leave it and mind my own business . |
| 23 | They should bring along a crane and pick the whole thing up with me in it and call it Frozen Communications and put it in some art gallery . |