Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] it [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain 's top twenty girls fought or flowed it out in the championships over the weekend … the big prize for them this season is a place at the Olympics … only two girls can go … the competition is made up of four disciplines rope … hoop … ball and clubs … |
| 2 | They read somewhat strangely , as if I had imagined the whole thing , or cooked it up for an April Fool joke . |
| 3 | But unless I talked out the issue with others , or wrote it up in my diary , it may be far from clear even to myself whether or not I did verbally formulate the alternatives . |
| 4 | Jane had decreed bowls rather than plates for the curry and spooned it out in the kitchen whence it was ferried by Christopher , Francis and Martine ( Jane 's mind darted back involuntarily to Puchero and gauchos in Argentina ) . |
| 5 | Riven had lost his in the river , but he snatched up one of the long river poles and stabbed it down on the crowds of hairy heads which thronged the water , clicking against skulls . |
| 6 | ‘ Finally on the seventh day , I thought that , being Catholic , they 'd rest , but still unfed and unwatered , each pony was blindfolded and tacked up , and Raimundo got on each one 's back , and whipped it and whipped it out into the pampas , until the pony 's spirit was completely broken , and it 'll never argue with man again . |
| 7 | It was long since Adam had thought of him so , and he gathered the warmth of their recollection to him as gratefully as if he had salved one bleached and solitary bone of the beloved right hand out of the Severn , and laid it back in holy ground . |
| 8 | When it had been cut and bound into sheaves , Kalchu carried it back to the village and laid it out on racks inside the house until it was dry enough to thresh . |
| 9 | She fetched my rope and laid it out on a clear patch of ground . |
| 10 | We unpacked our kit and laid it out on the floor , and then started the lengthy and tiresome process of folding it ‘ à carré ’ so that it sat on our shelves in tidy , identical bricks . |
| 11 | Jake drained his coffee-cup and laid it down on the saucer . |
| 12 | Guido drained his champagne glass and laid it down on the wall beside him . |
| 13 | Guido drained his whisky glass and laid it down on a nearby table . |
| 14 | He folded his newspaper and laid it down on a seat beside him . |
| 15 | ‘ I gathered it up , ’ he was to say , ‘ I actually scooped up the evil hungering thing in my arms and carried it into the house and laid it down by the fire . ’ |
| 16 | She took the proffered tiny scrap of blotting paper and wiped it on to her tongue . |
| 17 | ‘ I cut a picture of a model in a swimsuit out of Vogue and posted it back to one man . |
| 18 | ‘ He connected a wire to his computer , ran it under the carpet downstairs and soldered it on to the line so he could still make calls . |
| 19 | He shouldered the mattress and carried it back to Hut 2 , and slung it up onto his bunk , and threw the pillow and blanket after it . |
| 20 | She took off her jacket and slung it down on the settee . |
| 21 | He landed the plane himself and taxied it over to where President and Mrs Sadat were waiting with a guard of honour , a twenty-one-gun salute , a military band to play the national anthems of Iran and Egypt , and a red carpet . |
| 22 | The spokesman for United Engineering Steels said Irish firm Malone Parkinson Project Design had bought the furnaces and associated equipment and sold it on to the Chinese . |
| 23 | The candlelight had taken his cheap suit and made it over in some priceless fabric . |
| 24 | He selected a tape from the rack and threaded it on to a spare machine . |
| 25 | She read it twice and passed it over to Roman . |
| 26 | Hopefully , er I thought we , we played very very well at Port Vale last week and passed it around with three men in the middle of the park . |
| 27 | An unsuspecting crew member intercepted a call destined for the prince and passed it on to Diana . |
| 28 | Culley took change from a ten pound note from the barman and passed it on to Stan , then carried the drinks over to the table where Kelso was sitting . |
| 29 | The very poor even sold the combings of their hair , to hawkers who came by crying for it , and passed it on to the dollmakers in Naples where it would stuff the turban of a king or tassel the tail of a donkey for a Nativity crib at Christmas . |
| 30 | ‘ They found it when they returned , and passed it on to me . ’ |