Example sentences of "[prep] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She threw the ball across the lawn and the cat bounded after it over the frosted grass , the muscles rippling under the black sheen of his coat . |
| 2 | It would be insipid to say this book loves football , it does n't , it lusts after it with a taste for the perverse and the painful . |
| 3 | It 's worn well ; David must be looking after it with a coat of stop-rot now and then . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ His neighbour is looking after it at the moment but I do n't think she 'll be prepared to keep it indefinitely . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , ’ he says , then smashes the ball off the 15th tee , up over the hill and goes running after it down the other side . |
| 6 | He threw a stick into the river and the dog went after it in a flying leap , landing with a huge splash and paddling furiously , its black head sleek like a seal . |
| 7 | Having quoted the opening of Gormenghast in 1.4 as an example of an opaque style , we shall now return to another passage which occurs shortly after it in the same novel . |
| 8 | A rat as big as a cat scurried down a steep slope and a small bush slid down after it in the torrential downpour . |
| 9 | I think we do have to explain the , the re-establishment of authoritarian forms of government more carefully , we ca n't just assume that there 's a kind of almost instinctive hankering after it among the mass of the population because I 'm just not convinced by that at all . |
| 10 | There are two storeys below it with a beautiful , rich , decoratively carved entablature on classical pattern and , below , Byzantine carved capitals of basket design and exceptional quality . |
| 11 | Their prey this morning was Lawn House , lying just below it on the hillside . |
| 12 | It was not bonded to those below it by the neat filling of soil and small growth that bound all the rest , though it lay aligned precisely to fill the place it had surely filled for a year or more . |
| 13 | The Package Name and Issue fields are self explanatory , The Selection column shows how each package selects the package immediately below it in the structure ; ie. SELECTED , LATEST or PREFERRED . |
| 14 | Finally , as this is the Christmas issue , I 'm finishing with a little quiz , which I hope you will find time to do just for the fun of it over the holiday . |
| 15 | ‘ You 're right into the teeth of it over the first five holes . |
| 16 | ‘ One hundred and fifty miles , most of it over the sea . ’ |
| 17 | His voice went away again , and I heard doggy noises-puppy noises , come to think of it over the phone . |
| 18 | Played in English on a steeply-rigged stage in a shabby hall , this revival packs a pulverising punch , the most gripping account I have experienced of it over the years . |
| 19 | After carrying out a survey of the number of people who have died of it over the past three years , COHSE 's Scottish regional officer , Jim Devine , said the union believed many low-paid workers and pensioners were forced to make a choice between eating and heating . |
| 20 | Spenser wrote A View of the Present State of Ireland not as a vindication of Elizabethan policy towards Ireland but as a document highly critical of it under a necessarily respectful guise . |
| 21 | His allowing X to repossess the car amounted to a ‘ delivery or transfer ’ of it under a ‘ disposition . ’ |
| 22 | He put it on the table and fixed the end of it under the lamp . |
| 23 | So , if I want to play a melody , I 'll think of it along the strings rather than across , to take advantage of that . |
| 24 | But both Lord Hardwicke and Lord Eldon … established extensions of it beyond a simple gift of a chattel by its delivery : the former to a gift of money secured by a bond , by delivery of the bond ; the latter to a gift of money secured by a mortgage of land , by delivery of the mortgage deed . |
| 25 | She ran to it , scooped up handfuls of loose earth and began to make a barrier of it between the edge of the fire and the hayfield . |
| 26 | There 's a lot of it about A late-season flu bug has bitten Scotland , writes Ian Mullen |
| 27 | He has done an enormous amount of hard and soft thinking , but most of it about the stimuli to which he is responding , and the rest about whether he is being honest with himself as to how he is responding . |
| 28 | I 've still got bits of it about the porno magazines and that though . |
| 29 | I poured 70 per cent of it into a glass representing the wages paid to those of us who work in the business , 20 per cent into a glass representing what was ploughed back by way of reinvestment in plant and machinery , 5 per cent into a glass representing dividends and 5 per cent into a glass representing tax . |
| 30 | Although he has a large enough income to support them both , he puts most of it into a building society and also invests money in shares . |