Example sentences of "and [prep] it a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I mean it , erm , Mr is quite right , and I 'm very surprised at the length of time , I 'm not sure if he 's still in on planning , but he 's certainly been on and off it a lot , erm , has n't worked it out yet . |
| 2 | A tidy desk and behind it a man who might have come in on the Saturday afternoon for extra work . |
| 3 | Inside the main entrance was a counter , and behind it a door led into the office . |
| 4 | The design was n't very clear , but she could just make out a building shaped like a tower , she thought , tracing the outline with her fingertip , and beneath it a flower which might or might not be a rose . |
| 5 | ‘ Café ’ was daubed in whitewash on the wall and beneath it a metal plaque advertising ‘ Fanta ’ . |
| 6 | At the top end you put a wad of chemical explosive and beneath it a slug of Plutonium 239 . |
| 7 | The New Year came and with it a kind of hope , though of what Penelope was not sure . |
| 8 | She is no longer young , thought Fergus , and pity stirred in him , and with it a thread of forgiveness . |
| 9 | As this suggests , the appeal of such a tune could be seen as a ‘ leftover ’ , an ‘ echo ’ of a bygone era of craftsmanship ; and Adorno recognizes the possibility of this — indeed , he acknowledges that it is precisely in popular music that the category of the ‘ idea ’ ( a relatively independent , memorable element within a totality , a phenomenon more or less abandoned by ‘ serious ’ music ) lives on , and with it a sense of creative spontaneity ( Adorno 1976 : 34–7 ) . |
| 10 | As Maggie became more settled , and ate and slept better , Phoebe 's own health and energy returned , and with it a determination to get some sort of job and pay for her own keep . |
| 11 | In this context new kinds of employment ( eg public and private services ) have come to the fore and with it a rise in the proportion of female workers . |
| 12 | Night came , and with it a respite in the fighting . |
| 13 | She stripped it angrily off again , and put back the sweat shirt , and with it a feeling of appropriateness and even virtue , as if she had been tempted briefly by the forbidden . |
| 14 | The browning increased and with it a brittleness , and a general botanical lackadaisicalness that boded ill . |
| 15 | ‘ If we win we would have one trophy in the bag and with it a place in Europe . |
| 16 | They observed that their right winger , Franck Corrihons , had never dropped a goal until the 73rd minute of the cliff-hanger against Bayonne when , with Biarritz trailing 15–13 , he landed a monstrous 60-metre drop-goal to steal the game and with it a place in the semi-finals . |
| 17 | The tenth defeat of the season arrived and with it a place at the bottom of the table this time 2–1 at home to Peterborough . |
| 18 | The early post-war years saw a rapid rise in prosperity and with it a desire to own motor cars . |
| 19 | Silence , and with it a circle of bewildering calm , closed about them . |
| 20 | Besides , with GEMU , which no East German politician dare oppose , East Germany will already have yielded its monetary sovereignty to the West German Bundesbank and with it a lot of its room for political manoeuvre . |
| 21 | She woke up , at first disorientated and unaware of exactly where she was , but memory soon came flooding back , and with it a drop to her spirits . |
| 22 | ‘ Such a mist came that grim morning and with it a sound I feared then and fear now . |
| 23 | You have , like.it or not , curiosity and with it an adjunct : the desire to explain things . |
| 24 | But life was over ; it had been left irretrievably behind before the war , and with it an animation which could never be resurrected , if it had been at all . |
| 25 | However , Nato 's Secretary-General , Mr Manfred Woerner said that the promise of ‘ an end to a divided Europe , and with it an end to the division of Germany , has never been brighter ’ . |
| 26 | A large roadside car park has been made and from it a track has been worn to the saddle on the ridge ; the steep climb has been helped by this path formed since my first visit . |
| 27 | In each of these cases the basic problem is the same : a will has been made , and in it a debtor is left a legacy of liberatio from what he owes the testator . |
| 28 | There was a huge range on which a vast kettle simmered like a cauldron and beside it a gun rack where four guns rested , gleaming with care and beautiful . |
| 29 | Under it was a narrow bed covered with a brown army blanket and beside it a chair with a collection of objects neatly arranged . |
| 30 | There is also a hut with a thatched roof and beside it a store room of split poles . |