Example sentences of "[pron] and [vb past] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I laughed at him but , when he heard footsteps in the corridor , he wrenched it off my neck himself and flung it from the window . |
| 2 | Tom mumbled something to himself and handed it to him . |
| 3 | I finished some games in absolute agony , but said nothing and kept it to myself . |
| 4 | Rigorists rejected compromise : they would surrender nothing and understood it to be of the essence of their Christian allegiance that every Lord 's day they would unfailingly celebrate the eucharist . |
| 5 | After she had squeezed blood out of me and squirted it into little bottles , she said ‘ Thank you very much ’ — I thought ‘ That was n't so bad ’ and was halfway out the door when a nurse redirected me to a bed and rolled up my sleeve . |
| 6 | As it happened , I emerged a little late and I fear I rather startled the young gentleman , who immediately pulled his attaché case away from me and clutched it to his chest with both arms . |
| 7 | Mrs McDougall , with a quick , concerned look at me , took my basket from me and dumped it on the counter . |
| 8 | My voice was taut with anger as I pulled it out of the shelf in front of me and opened it on my knees . |
| 9 | I could never remember how to do them , I mean if somebody , if someone sat with me and explained it to me and then I , and then I could do it , I would do |
| 10 | The three youths waited , debating within themselves whether honour had been satisfied as he took his attention from them and returned it to Marion ; and suddenly , as his eyes burned into her like a couple of lasers , it was as if the two of them stood alone and everything else was just background . |
| 11 | He placed a little white enamel cup before each of them and filled it with strong black tea . |
| 12 | I composed a note for them and left it in the hall beside the phone . |
| 13 | They started to run meetings in the house for the wives of the clergy , where Ramsey talked theology to them and mixed it with a lot of humour . |
| 14 | Then , leaning forward , she picked an olive out of the glass dish in front of them and held it between thumb and forefinger . |
| 15 | This case was so complex and difficult that it filled many books of written record and there was so much opposing evidence that it was difficult to get at the truth , but he at last clarified everything and settled it with such skill and wisdom that all commended his extreme cleverness . |
| 16 | The old crow selected the largest one and dragged it to safety , out of the way of a pair of young birds chasing them down . |
| 17 | She had fed the precious child herself and carried it with her into the fields , watching it as she wielded a hoe or sickle , tears of weakness and fatigue often coursing down her dusty cheeks . |
| 18 | He had brought his telescope ashore with him and mounted it in the little dormer window high up under the eaves of the steep-pitched east-facing gable of his house . |
| 19 | I pulled the coat off him and flung it onto the hawthorn bushes where it rested upside down , spilling the contents of the torn pockets . |
| 20 | He took out the photograph which he always carried with him and compared it to the woman he had just seen . |
| 21 | He thinks the Ukrainian probably was killed and someone stole it from him and got it to Europe . ’ |
| 22 | He made coffee , then found the piece of paper Roxborough had given him and took it to the phone . |
| 23 | There had been a steady diminution — since the operation — in his own interest in dentistry but she had tapped his experience out of him and collected it with care . |
| 24 | He picked a newly constructed swatch of samples up from the desk in front of him and chucked it at Antinou , who caught the flopping thing one-handed and proceeded to fondle it familiarly . |
| 25 | Windeler took the sheet from him and slipped it into a drawer in the desk . |
| 26 | Jack snatched it from him and tore it in two . |
| 27 | When it was obvious that Inez was not coming back he packed up everything connected with her and stored it in one of the attics . |
| 28 | Julius immediately took the receiver away from her and replaced it on the rest . |
| 29 | Melissa took the tray from her and carried it to the buffet , while Juliette covered her face with a towel . |
| 30 | She made a grab for her shirt but Felipe took it from her and flung it into the back . |