Example sentences of "and [vb past] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jean Pert was sent this poem by a partner in her Prayer Chain and asked to share it with us . |
| 2 | The steep-sided valley of Stroud-Water in Gloucestershire must have presented much the same kind of picture , but Defoe does not attempt any description of it beyond saying that ‘ the clothiers Iye all along the banks of this river for near 20 miles ’ ; and Celia Fiennes passed along the high road over the uplands from Gloucester to Bath and failed to notice it at all . |
| 3 | We see , for example , his debt to Hobbes , who placed great emphasis on the idea of authority and sought to detach it from the idea of consent . |
| 4 | At a meeting in Guinea-Bissau on July 25-27 , 1990 , the joint co-operation commission , meeting for the first time since the 1980 coup , decided that it was unable to settle the longstanding dispute over the demarcation of the maritime border , and agreed to refer it to their heads of state [ see also pp. 36840 ] . |
| 5 | 13–1–1906 They had under consideration the question of using the Hymnary in the public worship and agreed to use it in the summer if there was no serious collection among the people . |
| 6 | So I really wanted to nail the bastard — preferably with the cooperation of my team-mates just to prove the point — but the fucking technology let me down and the gun jammed and he had me pinned , firing shot after shot at me , and finally I gave up trying to un-jam the gun and made to throw it at him though I could hardly see because there was yellow paint all over my visor , but he ducked and tripped and sat down on a trunk , holding his stomach , and the bastard was laughing his socks off because I looked like a giant dripping banana , only I 'd just realised the gun was n't jammed after all , the safety catch was on . |
| 7 | Jean held up her hand to it and when it made a bright white spot on her palm , she closed her fingers over it and pretended to give it into Donald 's hand , like a delicacy . |
| 8 | She has long thick hair and tried drying it with three different dryers . |
| 9 | As a diversion , which would allow time for the passing of the trembling , I reached into my pocket , pulled out the tin of rubbers , and tried to open it in the dark . |
| 10 | I ca n't actually recall all the numbers , but I remember I was in the States at one point and I took the album over and tried to sell it to a record company . |
| 11 | She knew all about it in theory and tried to explain it to Enoch . |
| 12 | He pulled out his billfold and tried to hand it to me . |
| 13 | They invited people whose backgrounds were very different to join this ‘ high class Jewish fraternity , ’ and tried to run it as a continuous party . |
| 14 | He pulled the duvet off the bed and tried to wrap it round her , but she reacted violently , as if he was trying to suffocate her . |
| 15 | I worked on this for some time and extended , integrated and tried to twist it to my style . |
| 16 | Men went down the main shaft and tried to clear it by shovelling the slurry into tubs which were then hauled to the surface but this was soon abandoned as it was realised that it would take weeks or months to clear a way through to the trapped men . |
| 17 | She rummaged in her handbag for the key on its wooden key ring and tried to fit it into the lock . |
| 18 | ‘ Then when she caught me with a cigarette she went really mad and tried to grab it off me . ’ |
| 19 | She shot her arm out and tried to grab it from him , but his fingers closed firmly around her wrist and easily held her at bay . |
| 20 | It looked as if the builder had started off with the plans of a Tudor manor house , swapped them for an Early English cathedral in mid-storey , and then suffered a total loss of confidence and tried to convert it into a Dutch barn . |
| 21 | Guest of honour was Pat Moody , a member of a local team of people who took aid to the orphanage and helped to refurbish it in May last year and have been charting progress there ever since . |
| 22 | Without speaking , Massingham took the next turning to the left and drove toward– it down a narrow road bordered on each side by a terrace of small houses . |
| 23 | They were given some money , and told to divide it into two accounts , one ‘ private ’ , one ‘ public ’ . |
| 24 | Guido took a mouthful of his Cynar and seemed to savour it for a moment . |
| 25 | The snarl on his face , twisted horribly with contempt , was terrifying to behold but worse was the way he wiped the saliva away from his slobbering mouth with his sleeve and seemed to cast it towards her . |
| 26 | The tsar was well aware that the legislation left much to be desired and delayed publishing it until 5 March , the first day of Lent : " alarmed by the prospect of riot , " wrote an admittedly hostile contemporary , " he hesitated a long time before choosing a day for promulgating the sham freedom and eventually chose the day when it was least of all expected " . |
| 27 | As we have seen , DVI is essentially a process by which digital video information is compressed and decompressed to enable it to be stored and retrieved as full frame , full motion video in a CD-ROM system . |
| 28 | I landed the fish , which weighed 3lb , and turned to show it to Peter . |
| 29 | On Sept. 25 Bush called the new bill " a bunch of garbage " and threatened to veto it on budgetary grounds . |
| 30 | We staggered out and began to use it as a battering ram against the locked door . |