Example sentences of "and it [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patrick Standun 's book ‘ Lovers ’ has on its cover a priest and a semi-naked woman in bed and it opens with a character using a sock for purposes he claims he learned from ‘ The Dark ’ . |
| 2 | This was the brainchild of Francesco de Carerra , a senior legislator in Padua , and it amounted to a padlock that closed the vaginal labia tight by the simple expedient of passing right through them — or as it was more decorously phrased at the time ‘ locked up the seat of voluptuousness ’ . |
| 3 | The story of the railways is intimately tied up with the wider saga of the industrialization of Europe , and it proceeded at a different rate in each country . |
| 4 | This is a public right of way for walkers and it continues as a track alongside Loch Coulin , where camera enthusiasts are often fortunate to find a moored rowing boat posing for the foreground of a perfect picture . |
| 5 | The cushioning provided by the Trinonic units in the EVA midsole did the job well and it feels like a very stable shoe . |
| 6 | Caroline Lamb says her version is ‘ wonderful … it has a rigid handle so you can take it out over your arm and still carry other things , and it converts into a rocking chair indoors . ’ |
| 7 | The sundial looks expensive — the metal part was a Christmas present from his brother , and it sits on a piece of balustrade given by a friend . |
| 8 | Sgr A West is smaller ( 2pc ) , its radiation is largely thermal , and it sits within a highly turbulent circumnuclear disk of molecules that extends out to a distance of 7pc from the nucleus . |
| 9 | In a sense , this is typical first-novel fare , and it reads like a first novel , with its attendant flaws — the heavy imbalances and visible seams . |
| 10 | This made it a no-go area for the Hong Kong police and it developed into a warren of opium dens and criminal hideouts . |
| 11 | Lack of an alternative summer team sport protected cricket between the wars and it benefited from a brief post-1945 resurgence in numbers , but then numbers fell so dramatically that by 1965 they stood at about a third of the post-1945 years . |
| 12 | Mention travel , and it led to a woman travelling alone ; lending a novel , to a circular room full of books — there was that underswell . |
| 13 | This was broadly speaking the approach adopted in Chapter 2 , and it led to a model which located each discipline somewhere in a three-dimensional space , defined by its object , stance and mode , all of which may vary over time . |
| 14 | They were n't so much being difficult as simply teasing , and it made for a very amusing if unproductive hour . |
| 15 | This never took place , and it sold to a phone bidder for $42,000 ( £23,300 ) ( est. $20–25,000 ) . |
| 16 | Leave the whiskey in oak too long and it tastes like a sack of splinters , but if the ageing is done correctly , it makes the spirit mellow and vanillin-sweet . |
| 17 | And it belonged to a family , and reflected their stubborn conservative tastes , with a minimum of staff providing a maximum of service . |
| 18 | It was holding a newspaper and it belonged to an old gentleman . |
| 19 | He kicked one , and it disintegrated into a white powder . |
| 20 | Its working was rather fitful and it failed in a couple of astounding thunderstorms they had . |
| 21 | Tony Dobson put Portsmouth ahead early on and it looked for a long time as though that was going to be the only goal of the game . |
| 22 | yeah , the , that 's the awful part I tried one of them with a big bit here and I tried it on and it looked like a tit on a pimple , I said god what am I gon na do ? |
| 23 | Where , when you sub- contract some international work , at some stage you get something back that you checked and it looked like a right pig but . |
| 24 | He looked to the side of the room and saw the plastic speaker from which the sound had come ; it was a component from an old car stereo , and it hung from a hook with its wire incompetently stapled to the boards . |
| 25 | And it got to a point where I could n't move . |
| 26 | Certainly information can be easily conveyed in BSL and it functions to a marked degree as an effective socialisation agent in deaf children whose parents are fluent in the language . |
| 27 | and it lasted about a week |
| 28 | She took the package and it lay for a moment in her lap while she stared down at it . |
| 29 | Its stomach gaped , and it lay like a woman with a stillborn child beside it . |
| 30 | Japanese , it 's a massive one , one er , it 's a thirty thousand gallon erm pond and it 's got , and it goes through a filter box and it 's four and a half tons of erm four and a half tons and that is a lot of |