Example sentences of "and [vb past] it [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They barricaded the building and ocupied it all night . |
| 2 | I cleared it out and relaid it this morning , fortunately . |
| 3 | It appeared in WW for July 28 and August 4 , 1926 and owed it considerable success and subsequent fame to the new technique of neutralising the RF stage triode and to the use of an RF coil design by Cocking . |
| 4 | Happily , after this the judge went on to say that nevertheless it was ‘ a beautiful thing ’ and awarded it first prize . |
| 5 | He could n't remember what he had done with his bike when he got to the Fletchers ' , left it there and collected it next day perhaps , but he could remember most of the rest of it . |
| 6 | And his two escorts had shrugged and sympathised , and called it bad luck . |
| 7 | we sat and watched it last night . |
| 8 | ‘ I saw it before , and felt it last night when I kissed you . |
| 9 | The press picked up the story the following day and gave it wide coverage . |
| 10 | He conceived the idea of artificial daylight and gave it practical reality by filtering the light of an Argand oil lamp through blue glass . |
| 11 | Woolley swung into a second chorus , and gave it greater volume . |
| 12 | Also on 13 March Fawcett received the ‘ preliminary note ’ at his editor 's office and gave it top priority . |
| 13 | The Authority rightly identified teachers ' classroom practice as a critical factor in children 's learning and gave it considerable prominence in documents , courses and the day-to-day work of its advisory staff in schools . |
| 14 | ‘ A night out with John Minton , ’ Lehmann recorded in his diary in October 1951 , ‘ for which he arrived with a bunch of carnations in the wildest , gayest form , having been on a jag for three nights — and continued it that night in spite of my attempts at restraint ( which were spoiled by laughing all the time ) , flinging his arms about , shouting shrilly with highly risqué asseverations at the White Tower ( at which Tennessee [ Williams ] appeared for a hallucinatory moment ) , becoming embarrassingly affectionate and enthusiastic about me , and pouring money out for champagne in the Caribbean and another unidentified night club . ’ |
| 15 | she spoke to and said we 've discussed it cos I asked whether she 'd done that , she said she 'd spoken to and said we 've discussed that we should share the work more equally and said no I 'm happy with the way things were and left it that way |
| 16 | I joined the Associate Membership scheme in the beginning and left it last year because of what I felt was gross overcharging for a pathetic members ' service . |
| 17 | At 2 p.m. , rather than face more questions from the femme ménage , she ladled the food that had been left for her to eat into one bowl and carried it some way down the hill to a place where she knew it would be picked up by stray dogs and cats . |
| 18 | If in other company , he was constantly saying that he was asexual , in the presence of Orton and Halliwell he was one of them — and wanted it that way . |
| 19 | This is IBM 's troubled attempt to develop a complete local network-based application development environment for client-server systems — IBM failed outright with AD/Cycle for MVS , and abandoned it last year . |
| 20 | ADP is IBM 's troubled attempt to develop a complete LAN-based application development environment for client/server systems — IBM failed outright with AD/Cycle for MVS , and abandoned it last year ( UX No 353 ) . |
| 21 | In 1991 , for example , Fareed Armaly and Christian Philipp Muller cloned the banal façade of the building and relocated it full scale at the edge of a forest : ‘ Fassade Galerie Nagel 1:1 ’ showed the same , faceless , empty apartment building but joined to a work belonging to Munich art dealer , Hanns Daxer and his wife ( to which ‘ Fassade ’ now also belongs ) . |