Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb past] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She pulled out her warrant card and slapped it on the desk then marched out of the office , slamming the door behind her . |
| 2 | Rohmer brought out an ID card and showed it to Cardiff . |
| 3 | Tom unbuttoned his overcoat , fished in the pocket of the dark suit which he scathingly referred to as his ‘ city uniform ’ for his identity card and flashed it at the uniformed security man . |
| 4 | The moment it was free of debt they dissolved the partnership and replaced it by the limited-liability company she had suggested in the first place . |
| 5 | Her eyes had opened wide in wonder , and the light entered their long-lashed blackness and turned it to a dusky , flecked gold . |
| 6 | Lord Hailsham , however , used twentieth century reasoning and applied it to nineteenth century cases . |
| 7 | Beggars ca n't be choosers though , he thought philosophically as he got up , removed the boiling kettle from the gas ring and emptied it into a small china teapot . |
| 8 | I was wearing the King 's ring , but I took off my Rassendyll family ring and gave it to her . |
| 9 | He had a hammer and banged it against the walls to restore order but nobody took any notice of him . |
| 10 | Turning her back , she weighed the hammer and smashed it into the centre of the clay skull at her feet . |
| 11 | Zach and George dragged the case up to the bedroom and laid it on one side . |
| 12 | He fetched a blanket from the bedroom and wrapped it round Doyle 's body , trying not to touch the wounds . |
| 13 | He went to the lavatory , lifted a large tin bath off its wall hook , took it into the bedroom and placed it on the floor . |
| 14 | She knew only that suddenly her hand was upraised , that his shot out with lightning speed and caught it in mid-air . |
| 15 | Sendei obtained one from the dispenser and tossed it to her . |
| 16 | I use a very old Gibson pickup and wired it with hardcore , heavy duty cable on a guitar built by a guy out in San Francisco called Gary Brower . |
| 17 | There was a rustle beside her as Gladys removed a shapeless cardigan and hung it over the back of the adjoining chair . |
| 18 | Mrs Hollidaye glanced down at her brooch and touched it like Dot used to touch her token . |
| 19 | Mr Gill spotted the manuscript at a local auction and purchased it for £1,500 , realising its quality but not its rarity or importance ; Sotheby 's Christopher de Hamel found it ‘ extraordinarily interesting ’ . |
| 20 | The company had to bid for its new broadcasting licence at auction and won it with a bid of £2,000 . |
| 21 | On Oct. 5 the deputy Defence Minister , Gen. Muhammad Nabi Azimi , confirmed the defeat and blamed it on interference by Pakistan 's Inter-Services Intelligence agency ( ISI ) , which , it was alleged , had been " supplying new weapons to the armed extremists in a bid to capture one of the cities inside Afghanistan " . |
| 22 | Whereas previously each local authority had access to its own business rate revenue , now the central government collected all this revenue and redistributed it to local authorities in proportion to the local population . |
| 23 | Sinatra also held the rights to the movie and withdrew it from the public domain shortly after release because it closely shadowed the Kennedy assassination . |
| 24 | In 1733 , the Apothecaries erected a marble statue by Rysbrack to their most generous benefactor and placed it in one of the rooms of the orange house , but in 1748 it was moved to the centre of the garden , where a replica stands today . |
| 25 | It was as if the attacking force had drawn back their battering-ram and steadied it for one final assault . |
| 26 | Once they took one away from the woodpile and hid it in the stable and the mother searched everywhere , growing more and more distressed . |
| 27 | His son Brendan then inherited the seat and kept it until his retirement in 1982 . |
| 28 | She looked for Patrick 's photograph and saw it under the sofa . |
| 29 | Deliberately , he lifted the photograph and flung it at the fireplace . |
| 30 | ‘ She was driving very fast , ’ he said as he folded the map round the photograph and tucked it into the inner pocket of the waterproof saddlebag . |