Example sentences of "[prep] it and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the money to fund a curator is n't raised in time , the Pitt Rivers music collection will be the only music collection of its class in the world without a qualified musicologist to look after it and keep it alive for the rest of us . |
| 2 | I mean , you look after it and protect it … ’ |
| 3 | One scheme was to transfer his legal estate to a relative or friend who was staying behind , who could look after it and administer it until he returned , or who , should the knight die abroad , could take care of it until the knight 's son reached his majority and could take it over himself . |
| 4 | It was hard to tell , at the moment , whether it would be moving at or away from him , but Sheikh , a patient and methodical child , looked ready to run after it and beat it to death on the boundary should this prove necessary . |
| 5 | A Kentish hegemony in south-east England at this time is not , therefore , wholly out of the question , and Offa 's intention in intervening in 784–5 and thereafter may have been to gain mastery of it and contain it . |
| 6 | Put a piece of rope and , and stand on the end of it and pull . |
| 7 | Oh all you got ta do is to hold that white , hold both ends of it and pull it , it 'll come out . |
| 8 | I touched the needle tip of it and wished I had n't . |
| 9 | We decided the deception was the worst part of it and agreed to give honesty a try . |
| 10 | ‘ But I 've enjoyed every minute of it and remain as fascinated today by the cut and thrust of politics as I ever was . |
| 11 | He considered leaving the rucksack on the train , but as it contained several of his favourite Fair Isle jumpers , and this was bonny Scotland after all , he thought better of it and shouldered the thing . |
| 12 | If so , any school or group of schools in consultation with the College and the leader of the in-service team may decide to depart from a particular syllabus or portions of it and develop in its place new material which after being tried out and improved upon may be passed on to other schools and colleges for use on a wider scale with the approval of the Ministry . |
| 13 | ‘ I loved every minute of it and played against many of the touring sides . |
| 14 | But it was no use bemoaning her fate — she must make the best of it and hope that time would eventually heal the biggest wound she had ever experienced . |
| 15 | ‘ If you must write — you do n't need to by the way , I can earn enough to support my family — but if you really must , you should always write ‘ Mrs Nigel Hughes ’ at the end of it and tell the editor you are married to me . ’ |
| 16 | She did not believe a word of it and despised Ellen for concocting such a sentimental and silly scene . |
| 17 | But there were those who said that Douglas had known of it and connived at it . |
| 18 | She took a ready-cut slice of it and ate it . |
| 19 | Then you put a good big handle on it , so that everyone can get hold of it and pick it up . |
| 20 | When the copyists sold the originals to Wildenstein 's for $665,000 and decamped with the proceeds , Wallis got to hear of it and had to buy back the pictures . |
| 21 | A low range of hills lifted in the north , yellow , rumpled , threadbare , as if someone had been carrying a lionskin and had grown tired of it and had thrown it down . |
| 22 | Ron said that he 'd been preparing an obituary of Lord Mountbatten for some time , that Mountbatten had somehow got wind of it and had approached the BBC with a view to taking part . |
| 23 | But by midday they had taken most of it and had begun to dig in . |
| 24 | He added : ‘ I was staggered to learn that limestone was to go from Redmire to Redcar by road when we were told in 1988 that British Steel could n't get enough of it and had put on an additional train . |
| 25 | Cassie was fond of it and kept it dust free and well polished . |
| 26 | Echoing Kant , he insisted that any properly objective enquiry could not impose on its material methods worked out in advance or in relation to some other topic ; only within the context of encounter with and experience of the object itself could it discover how to speak of it and enquire into it . |
| 27 | Divorce is common enough for even young children to be aware of it and to fear you may split up . |
| 28 | You know when you 're small , you cover yourself with ropes of it and run along the beach ? |
| 29 | And I know these people do n't feel free , I know they 're all hurrying along or sitting there worrying about their jobs or their mortgages or being late or an IRA bomb in the nearest litter-bin , but I look at them and feel a terrible sense of loss , because I think I 've surrendered all this ; the ordinariness of life , the ability just to be part of it and take part in it . |
| 30 | She tried to make light of it and failed . |