Example sentences of "and [vb past] [prep] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While I was in these fine showrooms I saw exquisite pieces of antique furniture , old silver , paintings , porcelain , figures , antique clocks , masses of objets d'art , and the most fabulous coral and white Meissen porcelain dinner service — I just stood and gazed at it with sheer enjoyment ! |
| 2 | She stopped for a moment , and gazed at it with pleasure , and saw how huge it was , surging against the rocks with far more power and energy than it had in the shelter of the estuary , flinging plumes of spray about in a reckless manner and dragging back to gather itself for the next rush forward . |
| 3 | Bright too had misgivings in this area , particularly about size of the single conductor , and asked for it to be enlarged . |
| 4 | On 11 July Cross had taken a sample of his own tapwater into the local North Cornwall District Council offices and asked for it to be analysed , but the Council refused . |
| 5 | The letter did not say that they would continue to be charged for the service , unless they wrote and asked for it to be stopped . |
| 6 | On 28 August 1651 , while Alured was evidently on his deathbed , James Chaloner [ q.v. ] , the Yorkshire MP , reported to the House that Alured was owed £8,769 and asked for it to be paid . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ I took it in yesterday and asked for it to be repaired as soon as possible . |
| 8 | And in the year 1037 Ferdinand slew Bermudo the King of Leon in battle , who was his wife 's brother , and conquered his kingdom , and succeeded to it in right of his wife Doña Sancha . |
| 9 | Gassendi adopted it enthusiastically and argued for it at great length . |
| 10 | But Beatriz Lavandera has adopted this approach to syntactic variation in a much more radical form , and argued for it in some detail . |
| 11 | Only I would have probably braked , changed down ended up in second and crept past it on the inside and then speeded up again . |
| 12 | Now and then she lifted an eyeglass up and peered through it for a moment , and , evidently finding it useless at this distance , let it fall again , shaking her head in a frustrated way . |
| 13 | He constructed his own refined version of the newly-invented telescope and peered through it from the top of St Mark 's tower in Venice . |
| 14 | As the two women were saying their goodbyes he came to the end of his task , switched off the motor-mower and headed with it towards the narrow gate at the side of the house . |
| 15 | Both the New Criticism and Scrutiny were products of the modernist literary revolution , and drew on it for their methods and their assumptions . |
| 16 | To get there they had to cross the mud , and sank in it to their ankles , but below the soft surface the foreshore was hard here , and although it was a filthy journey it was n't particularly difficult . |
| 17 | Molly passed a cup to Cornelius , who perched it on the palm of his hand and gaped at it in awe . |
| 18 | Early workings were always upon these outcrops , yet despite their equipment and methods ( all very labour intensive ) the " old men " sank up to 200 ft. on the Bonsor Vein prior to the Civil War , and drove into it at least two long adits or " stollen(s) " in hard rock without the aid of explosives . |
| 19 | Dolly picked up the chop bone and nibbled at it with sharp teeth . |
| 20 | Newton and Leibnitz discovered the principles of calculus at the same time ( and squabbled over it for twenty years ) ; Darwin thought of how the species evolved , but so did someone called A.R.Wallace , and at exactly the same time . |
| 21 | Having reached the most distant onlookers , a young couple pushing up-and-down a baby in a pram , the girl drew tight the neck of the bag and strolled with it to the stage . |
| 22 | Rather than spend too long on developing a perfect composition , I settled for a core arrangement of objects that looked good together and added to it as the drawing and colouring progressed . |
| 23 | Raindrops hit the surface of the road and danced upon it like spinning coins . |
| 24 | They kept their secret identities and paid for it through their Swiss bank accounts . |
| 25 | ‘ I slipped it in my pocket and forgot about it till one day when I was down at yon ford and I took a swig and , by God , it 's potent . ’ |
| 26 | In the ‘ free chase ’ of Knaresborough , which had been assigned to Queen Isabella for life , they made an unauthorized perambulation and acted upon it by felling trees , planting hedges , and hunting the deer without warrant . |
| 27 | I misunderstood the cause of his mood and remarked on it in a letter . |
| 28 | And stuck on it for life I think . |
| 29 | I went to the very edge and walked along it like a tightrope . |
| 30 | He spread it out , and glanced from it to the screen . |