Example sentences of "it and [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ideally , Praxis would like IBM to adopt the installer , productise it and bundle it with the RS/6000 , though it is ‘ far too early ’ to say whether this might happen , says the firm 's Stephen Robertson . |
| 2 | The post office was owned by two white-haired sisters , Annie and Lizzie , far out cousins of her own , and Annie stamped the envelope for her , postmarked it and dropped it in the calico bag on the counter . |
| 3 | And Hilderbridge lay in the sunshine , its slate roofs all turned to planes of silver , its spires sharp needles , as if a silversmith had made it and dropped it in the valley between the meadows and the moor . |
| 4 | Expand it and throw it onto the ground on the other side of the wheelbarrow . |
| 5 | It happens that what we 've done is we 've taken it and hung it on the starlight , the magic of starlight — how wonderful it is , how much you can tell from just looking at a star through a telescope and measuring the light that comes out of it , and this takes us into realms of why a star shines ; what do you mean by time when you go back millions of years into the universe lifetime ; what do you mean , why do stars shine with different colours . |
| 6 | Indeed , as Amiss saw with fascination , his first act on sitting down to breakfast was to open the tabloid at page three , fold it and prop it against the sugar bowl in such a way that the topless pin-up of the day was there to be looked at every time he got bored with the Telegraph . |
| 7 | I can pick the cigar up just with my eye-power and push it and pull it in the air any way I want ! ’ |
| 8 | Finally , she snatched up the envelope from the table where she 'd left it and carried it to the one window that might , if she were lucky , catch a vagrant breeze from the river a block away . |
| 9 | ‘ We 'll have to snap him out of it and keep him to the exercises or he 'll ruin himself . ’ |
| 10 | De Valois saw it and accepted it for the repertory . |
| 11 | But he had written all over this one — the handwriting was unmistakable — before tearing it and throwing it on the floor . |
| 12 | So , Sir , because of that quality of the Queen 's Speech , I support it and recommend it to the House . |
| 13 | With care he lifted it and took it to the mouth of the chamber . |
| 14 | He looked round for the phone , found it and took it to the woman , laying it in her lap . |
| 15 | The aim is to arrange the rig in such a way that the wind can blow under it and release it from the water . |
| 16 | About 1890 , 100 years after his grandfather had presented the horn , Sir Charles Tennant , aware of the family tradition connecting the horn with Robert Burns and his poem Tam O' Shanter , decided to trace it and return it to the family 's safe-keeping . |
| 17 | Pinched some of my old Dad 's plum brandy and soaked raisins in it and left 'em in the clearing . |
| 18 | However , when I stripped the pump off the block , cleaned it and left it on the workbench , I noticed it had leaked a small amount of oil from a 1.5mm hole located near the back underside of the pump . |
| 19 | I washed and sterilised it and put it on the hall table , beside the front door . |
| 20 | They must carbon-date it and put it under the microscope , and we must examine Aziz carefully and get him to say where he found it . |
| 21 | If it is a real big son , great , we stuff it and put it in the front room . |
| 22 | I took the cheque , folded it and put it in the back pocket of my jeans . |
| 23 | She says that her husband suggested they buy it and put it in the bedroom ! |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Barbie said she 'd rather have a cigarette anyway and gave them back to us , but we could n't break any of them off , so we kept passing this lump backwards and forwards , sucking it and grinding little chunks off it , till we got fed up with it and chucked it on the floor . |
| 26 | The painting of the boarding will improve its appearance and will waterproof it and protect it against the elements . |
| 27 | He described the heap of rubble from which it and the rest of the building had risen and how he and the owner , who came up for weekends , had taken eight years to finish it and turn it into the Mirimar which we now perceived it to be . |
| 28 | I grab it and squirt it at the gape of her frightened mouth . |
| 29 | I turned it and played it to the net , though it did n't come in easily . |
| 30 | Typically the customer selects the equipment from the supplier , and the finance lessor buys it and leases it to the customer on rentals calculated to pay off the purchase price plus interest . |