Example sentences of "[prep] it and [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such was the excitement and focus on Maggie that in spite of Rose 's care to draw him into the conversation Moran began to feel out of it and grew bored . |
| 2 | And I was n't cold — I just liked wearing my anorak because I was fond of it and felt comfortable in it . |
| 3 | The Bank of England stepped in , took over the running of it and provided sufficient loans to cover the demands of its creditors . |
| 4 | Saw how he grasped every last detail of it and held that knowledge tight in his memory . |
| 5 | Alexandra Palace and Park , the latest company willing to take up the baton , has been administering a relaunch for the premises through the offices of Bizat , a genial exhibitions and catering specialist , who had been at the place only 11 weeks , in 1980 , when afire near the great organ gutted much of it and necessitated major reconstruction . |
| 6 | Wetherall just got on with it and won all the important headers . |
| 7 | He glimpsed a fallacy , said ‘ Longer to us , I mean ’ with a vague interest in nailing it , and then thought the hell with it and bought some very expensive soap . |
| 8 | He pushed a clip into it and rammed four more into his jacket pockets . |
| 9 | And then I thought I 'd really put my foot in it and embarrassed both of us |
| 10 | She hit the blancmange of the shoreline , bounced over it and flew sprawling into some bushes . |
| 11 | Mrs Hellyer only came once a week and though Dad did some of the housework , shuffling round in the mornings and yawning , almost everything had a skin of dust over it and smelt mouldy , like furniture stored in an attic . |
| 12 | Moving gingerly , she went over to it and lifted one corner of the cloth , shining her torch on the canvas . |
| 13 | She held it on her finger and sang to it and made little kissing noises with her lips that he tried to imitate . |
| 14 | Steve Wilson was equal to it and made three excellent saves . |
| 15 | It may in perfect good faith have misconstrued the provisions giving it power to act so that it failed to deal with the question remitted to it and decided some question which was not remitted to it . |
| 16 | It may have failed to deal with the questions remitted to it and decided some other question . |
| 17 | S still wondered about it and thought This is a little funny . |
| 18 | Tom would n't talk about it and spent most of his spare time at his club . |
| 19 | He liked the Latin name so much that he made up a sort of rhyme about it and chanted this as he went upstairs : |
| 20 | Olive took the glass of wine , sniffed at it and downed half in one go . |