Example sentences of "[prep] it and [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not believe a word of it and despised Ellen for concocting such a sentimental and silly scene . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | During the " 14 — " 18 war , I started singing " Eternal Father strong to save " at the end of my prayers and Basil got very tired of it and asked Mother to stop me , but this she felt unable to do . |
| 4 | When the time comes to settle your Access account , you have the option of paying off the whole amount owing , without it costing you a penny in interest , or of repaying a portion of it and paying interest on what is left . |
| 5 | She could understand why Isabelle had wanted none of it and chosen Les Hiboux instead . |
| 6 | The tiny hamlet , carefully restored , has kept its appearance and much of the original spirit thanks to the young couple , Giovanni and Chiara , who own most of it and run things from their little ‘ taverna ’ . |
| 7 | I feel er something of a stranger walking in on the Maastricht reunion er annual dinner er at the er I have to say that erm I er would n't wish to cross swords with the honourable gentleman on the detail of the Maastricht bill but certainly but certainly I 'ave to say that for many people and maybe even some people on this own side who may be prepared to admit it , the false divide between Euro sceptics and Euro fanatics is one that does n't appeal to the new generations of members and I suspect on both sides of the house , we are in our considered view in Europe and we need to make the best of it and treat Europe on its merits rather than re-live the battles of the er late seventies and early eighties . |
| 8 | You 're only here once so you 've got to try and make the most of it and enjoy life to the full . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I just hope that United come out of it and score bags of goals . |
| 10 | Eubank has been at his best when right up against it and facing defeat , especially in the battle with Nigel Benn that first gave him the world middleweight title and then when he climbed off the floor in the second , tragic contest with Michael Watson . |
| 11 | Some said that I should , in fact , have dealt with it and asked Mr Heseltine to go earlier . |
| 12 | Have a little fun with it and let shapes drawn down a wall spill over a dresser or chest of drawers . |
| 13 | He says they 've grown up with it and become part of the community . |
| 14 | You are , as they say , stuck with it and have leisure to feel all its peculiar irritations and discomforts . |
| 15 | But how to deal with it and encourage loyalty , impose discipline upon the people of the future notional Christian state ? |
| 16 | And what was happening was , I was dripping sweat into it and rusting bits and shorting the battery . |
| 17 | There has been a tendency on the part of the Commission to interpret Article 85(1) very widely so that all restrictions fall within it and require exemption . |
| 18 | There was a sensuousness about it that filled him with a desire to run shouting across it , to roll in it , to bury his face in it and sniff life out of its roots , to draw up his childhood from the green stems , to lie supine and shade his eyes from the sun and dream himself back into nature . |
| 19 | Tim 's idea of a mess is to put his hands in it and got shooooo |
| 20 | And she stared at it , glad to have been told that it was not good , for she could make nothing of it : it stood about five feet high , on a stone lump , and it had holes in it and stretching arms . |
| 21 | In the centre stood a jam jar with flowers in it and surrounding Willie 's place were parcels and envelopes . |
| 22 | driving over it and getting glass in their tyres ? |
| 23 | To my utter astonishment the motion was passed unanimously and thereafter , and to my lesser astonishment , completely ignored ; at a by-election at Pollok the Liberal candidate devoted just ten out of the 150 lines of his election address to it and came bottom of the Poll . |
| 24 | I keep thi I keep sitting down to it and thinking God ! |
| 25 | one time they had this big trolley of all smashed up Easter eggs and me and my mum kept running up to it and nicking bits of chocolate |
| 26 | By a notice of appeal dated 23 April 1992 the Treasury Solicitor appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) on a true construction of the Evidence ( Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions ) Act 1975 the court was precluded from making the order for examination ; ( 2 ) the deputy judge had erred in law in making the order and in holding that ( i ) it was possible to interpret section 9(4) of the Act so as not to preclude the order sought , ( ii ) the exclusion contained in section 9(4) was restricted to cases where the actual capacity in which the witness was called on to give evidence was a Crown capacity and that the fact that the evidence sought was acquired in the course of the witness 's employment as a servant of the Crown was not of itself sufficient to bring the case within the exclusion , ( iii ) the fact that the witness was now retired from his position was relevant to the question whether the exclusion in section 9(4) applied , ( iv ) if some other interpretation were possible , it would be unacceptable to approach section 9(4) as requiring the court to refuse to make the order that a witness who was competent and compellable within the United Kingdom should give evidence for foreign proceedings , ( v ) there was nothing in the material sought to be given in evidence which it could have been the policy or intention of the Act to have prevented being explored ; ( 3 ) the deputy judge had erred in law in approaching the question of capacity by concentrating on the position of the witness at the time that the evidence was to be given as opposed to the position of the witness at the time that he acquired the information which was the subject matter of the evidence and the nature content and source of such evidence ; ( 4 ) the judge had wrongly ignored the fact that the Crown as a party to the Hague Convention was in a position to give effect to it and to provide evidence to foreign courts in accordance with it without recourse to the court ; and ( 5 ) the judge had wrongly approached section 9(4) on the footing that it most likely addressed prejudice to the sovereignty of the state . |
| 27 | Instead of doing all that , try ‘ preparing ’ your numbers in the following way : where the top number is the smaller one , add 10 to it and add I to the bottom figure immediately to the left . |
| 28 | She placed a small delicate hand on it and bade Miriam good-night . |
| 29 | and sort of went like this and landed on it and went bang down . |
| 30 | I bought an expensive photograph album with a padded cover and gold curlicues on it and spent ages arranging the photographs I had taken at his house so that they were in just the right order . |