Example sentences of "it and [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There was a Django Reinhardt tape playing , I know because I recorded it and sold it to Stubbly , and Ken the barman was sitting on a bar stool reading the News of the World . |
| 32 | After its discovery in 1873 , the Tongue had found its way into the hands of a treasure-hunter , who had kept quiet about it and sold it to a London dealer , who in turn had sold it to an American collector , who had lent it to an exhibition in Philadelphia in 1922 — which latter appearance had provided the clues , sixty-five years later , for a detective-story-like investigation on the part of Theodore Kemp of the Ashmolean Museum — a man who now lay dead in the mortuary at the Radcliffe Infirmary . |
| 33 | De Valois saw it and accepted it for the repertory . |
| 34 | But he had written all over this one — the handwriting was unmistakable — before tearing it and throwing it on the floor . |
| 35 | So , Sir , because of that quality of the Queen 's Speech , I support it and recommend it to the House . |
| 36 | This formal writing-up took nearly twenty years : it is one thing to collect data , and another to evaluate it and make it into public knowledge . |
| 37 | And so , when you come to the bible and you read the account of Jesus here on the earth , turning the water into wine , of Jesus stilling the storm , when you into the old testament and you read accounts there of the children of Israel , of the me , of the tremendous miracles that were performed by Jehovah , God for them well of course , there 's a natural explanation to it , because you ca n't do these things , there are natural laws that stop you doing them you can not take a glass of water , even if you 're God , you can not take it and make it into a glass of wine instantly , it 's got natural processes to go through . |
| 38 | She saw Adam take two strides to it and grip it in his hands . |
| 39 | Carolyn had had a couple of goes at it and made it into — well , more of a privet dodo than a hen . |
| 40 | With care he lifted it and took it to the mouth of the chamber . |
| 41 | He looked round for the phone , found it and took it to the woman , laying it in her lap . |
| 42 | There 's supposed to be a back fire-escape , but years ago , before I came here , someone unhooked it and took it for scrap . |
| 43 | This was the station where the fire had been , she had read about it and seen it on television . |
| 44 | Where Ken wanted to jolly the world along , Bernard wanted to push it and shove it for its own good . |
| 45 | The Profitboss devotes time and effort to this , taking his team away periodically to discuss their vision of excellence , clarifying it , refining it and defining it in terms of the best standards , the best contribution , the best performance . |
| 46 | She picked up the box with the frog-magician in it and wedged it into her cape pocket . |
| 47 | The porter arrived with a trolley and they lowered the woman on to it and rushed her into Resuscitation . |
| 48 | He lay there , listening to the noises in the street , quite tranquilly ; not caring much how the time went , but watching it and watching everything about him with observing eyes ( 2 ) . |
| 49 | She feels full of it and moulds it into a glowing ball deep within . |
| 50 | The aim is to arrange the rig in such a way that the wind can blow under it and release it from the water . |
| 51 | The second is that it allows you to make a fast flank attack on the end of the enemy 's line with the possibility of rolling along it and taking lots of his troops in the flanks . |
| 52 | The old woman lay in her hammock , sleeping ; it was a time when she had taken a heavy dose , and he was able to lead Ariel out and let her walk before him , now and then turning to make sure he was not about to do something to her , put a halter on her or hit her , and she made for the fence and pointed over it and asked him with her hands and eyes if she could go there , beyond the stockade , into the receding forest , where the bromeliads pushed out their stiff blades , and the monkeys nibbled at mango fruits and threw them down when they were unripe with tiny rows of toothmarks like some sharp-fanged fairy child 's , where the birds of many colours screeched . |
| 53 | Anyway , he waffled on for a little while about everything that did n't matter and then … ’ she swallowed ‘ … then he got down to it and told me about everything that did . ’ |
| 54 | ‘ Its purpose is to help middle and secondary schools plan their overall curriculum to include an adequate coverage of pupils ’ study needs : the ability to formulate and focus a question , find possible sources , judge their appropriateness , extract the relevant information , reorganize it and prepare it for future use , or reorganize it and prepare it for future presentation to others . |
| 55 | ‘ Its purpose is to help middle and secondary schools plan their overall curriculum to include an adequate coverage of pupils ’ study needs : the ability to formulate and focus a question , find possible sources , judge their appropriateness , extract the relevant information , reorganize it and prepare it for future use , or reorganize it and prepare it for future presentation to others . |
| 56 | Instead , fill in the section at the foot of the page overleaf , detach it and return it at once , with the complete Renewal Notice . |
| 57 | Instead , fill in the section below , detach it and return it at once , with the complete Renewal Notice . |
| 58 | About 1890 , 100 years after his grandfather had presented the horn , Sir Charles Tennant , aware of the family tradition connecting the horn with Robert Burns and his poem Tam O' Shanter , decided to trace it and return it to the family 's safe-keeping . |
| 59 | As each piece was released , Judith took it in charge to chop it up finely on the wooden board , then season it and return it to her mother . |
| 60 | When you have done so please sign it and return it to me immediately in the pre-paid envelope provided . |