Example sentences of "it [adv prt] and [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I always say that we all spend our money on what we really want to spend it on and put a bit by for what we really desire to achieve . |
| 2 | I had almost consciously to go out of the house in the morning with a smile fixed on my face , keep it on and breathe an air of absolute confidence when I was feeling anything but that way inclined . |
| 3 | Then , putting it on and pulling the collar tight about her throat , she lit the candle that was standing in a holder on her bedside table , and went quietly out and along the corridor to the kitchen , through it and into the scullery , where they had a running tap above a shallow stone sink . |
| 4 | Nails said , towards the kitchen door , ‘ I 'm goin' out , ’ picked up a leather jacket that lay on the floor , shrugged it on and opened the door again . |
| 5 | He cut it in and holed the putt from about 12 feet . |
| 6 | And since even a polygonal story should have at least two sides in all international farewell orgies , how about packing it in and having a bash at normal behaviour eh , so as to get bashed again as whipping boy despite my morseled-out attempts to break free or go shiating on , turning the other cheek to sheer cheek as sitting target for the unclear missiles of affreux dizzy acts or as wailing wall of blame beyond the demarcation line or bowstring frontier that will boomerang back and much joy may it give me. ( 102 ) |
| 7 | The loop will now be round the person 's body and all you have to do is to pull it down and ask the volunteer to step out of it . |
| 8 | If it 's not written down I do n't know when they 've had or what they 've had , you 'll have to write it down and put a date on it . |
| 9 | Just bung that in like that seal it down and put a stamp on it . |
| 10 | I 'll , I 'll write it down and put a sticker up on the wall . |
| 11 | Can you help out ? he 's paying in gold and you can melt it down and make a new battleaxe that will never go rusty . |
| 12 | He made me put it down and began a long , fast conversation with the soldier . |
| 13 | MR ASHDOWN , the Liberal Democrat leader , stressed yesterday that without a commitment to proportional representation in the Queen 's Speech the Liberal Democrats would seek to vote it down and force a second general election . |
| 14 | The goal is made concrete by writing it down and making a commitment to it . |
| 15 | It was an old house there and that 's what she said , it was derelict , they knocked it down and rebuilt the new one . |
| 16 | She lifted it down and read the brief note inside . |
| 17 | After the sketch came the paint — black paint , and a lot of ‘ turps ’ to water it down and divide the picture into blocks of light and shadow . |
| 18 | The wind has battered this aviary a lot and the wire needs replacing — in fact , when I can afford it I 'm going to knock it down and build a new one , but it 's been very useful over the years . |
| 19 | Later I thought it through and decided a big part of it was that , although he was coining it from the teds , I think he felt he was seen — by his peers — as an artistic cretin . |
| 20 | They 've got a spare room in my mum 's flat so I just took it over and put a weights bench in and , what else , a rowing machine and I started to do some weights |
| 21 | The evidence you found may not on its own be inconsistent with the suicide theory , but just the same , it 's your duty to hand it over and let the police decide if it 's worth following up . ’ |
| 22 | Even when she had turned it over and seen the franked stamps she was childishly afraid . |
| 23 | After my uncle 's death in April 1976 he visited Wyvis Hall on perhaps two , or at the most three , separate occasions simply for the purpose of looking it over and reaching a decision about the disposal of furniture and effects . |
| 24 | They thought it over and suggested a percentage to the labourer if he provided the baskets and made the sale . |
| 25 | Casually , Juliet turned it over and read the words . |
| 26 | And then er er but it was this was fixed right above , then you could , reach if you did feel you hand getting caught , you could slide it off and stop the p switch it onto loose pulley immediately . |
| 27 | I always put it off and played a lot of sport at high school instead , until I hurt my knee really badly . |
| 28 | ‘ As you know there are two kinds of roughing you can either put frost-nails in the shoe or you can take it off and turn the heels and the toes of the shoes up — turning 'em up , we used to call it . |
| 29 | He pulled it off and felt the cold air bite into his hot skin , his scanty hair standing up and waving gently in the breeze . |
| 30 | He nodded his satisfaction and let go , and she wrenched it off and took a deep breath . |