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Example sentences of "and [verb] it [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Taking her hand warmly in his and tucking it into his pocket , he ordered softly , ‘ Tell me about Elinor Browne with an ‘ E ’ . ’
2	Jonathan , Jonathan , dad wants to watch the news in a minute please , so hurry up and change it over You 'd think they 'd save that You do n't know , I would n't be surprised you will well that 's marvellous is n't it ?
3	Instead , I just lit up a straight fag and shared it with her , Bogart style .
4	Jim ( no one who knows him calls him Iggy ) being Jim was squatting on the table stuffing everyone else 's venison into his roll and eating it with his fingers .
5	‘ One is always grateful for that kind of comic genius who takes your script and plays it for everything that 's in it , ’ as Shaffer told me .
6	Sharpe took the loaded pistol from his belt , cocked it , and laid it beside him .
7	She had rolled up her coat and laid it on her suitcase .
8	Scathach dragged the stiff body back into the trees and laid it on its side .
9	Overwhelmed with compassion , Melissa put out a hand and laid it on his arm .
10	Impulsively now , she put her hand out and laid it on his , saying quietly , ‘ I 'm going to miss you all over again , Ben , that 's if I take this place . ’
11	They called it All-Heal and laid it upon their altars as an emblem of the advent of the Messiah .
12	Jean-Claude fetched a mattress from the pavillon and laid it in his working space .
13	Then they brought food in and laid it inside her shelter .
14	He lifted his hand and laid it against her cheek , his fingers cool and firm against her skin .
15	Not even Dali , however , thought of designing a surrealist town and naming it after himself .
16	Ellwood snatched up his wine glass and clapped it to his mouth , driving the rim past his teeth .
17	In his fury Pascoe might have grabbed the knife — which could have belonged to MacQuillan and been to hand — and plunged it into him .
18	We argue that it was a marked drop in aggregate supply , larger than the initial fall in demand and magnifying it through its knock-on effects , which caused the recession to be much deeper than expected .
19	She wrote Ben a hasty reply saying that she would love to go with him , thank you very much , and posted it through his letter box almost immediately .
20	‘ My son lives in England and he saved up the vouchers to buy the ticket and posted it to me .
21	‘ You can help if you like , ’ William said , and he showed Wee Joe how to mix in the water and squeeze it in his hands until the bulb fibre was wet through .
22	‘ We wish , my brother and I , we wish you to take some of our money and to invest it for us in — in such places where you invest your own . ’
23	The reaper cut the corn by bending over and gasping a bunch of ears in his left hand , as Caleb Howe did on his allotment , inserting the sickle and drawing it towards him in a sawing action .
24	‘ Luncheon for only three and ninepence , ’ she declared , reaching out towards a miniature steamed pudding and drawing it towards her , ‘ excellent ! ’
25	Choose a scheme that will tone in with your tablecloth and china or pick out one small colour detail and highlight it with your floral display .
26	It is possible to make a single , and sell it at your own gigs , for quite a small sum of money ( see Chapter 13 , ‘ Doing it the Right Way ’ by Horace Trubridge ) .
27	‘ She confessed she had not meant to let me see it or sign it and said Joseph had promised to take it to America and sell it under her own name .
28	‘ You could video that and sell it as what you expect from a player the control , the passing , the will to take responsibility , to work , to retrieve situations .
29	It was a good thing he had finally come to his senses and realized it for himself .
30	A second element in this theory is that Jesus entered into every aspect of human life and sanctifies it with his presence and love .