Example sentences of "and [vb past] it [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took off the first slice , you know the rather well-done , brown bit at the end , and laid it on one side of the serving dish and then he cut the next slice off for the first lady and so on . ’ |
| 2 | Zach and George dragged the case up to the bedroom and laid it on one side . |
| 3 | So he 'd taken an upstairs room and divided it into six spaces , figuring he could charge £1.50 an hour for each of them and really coin it in . |
| 4 | They then measured the distance between Hartwell and Roade Station and divided it into three equal parts . |
| 5 | In 678 Ecgfrith , urged on by his second wife Iurminburg , expelled Wilfrid from his see and divided it in two , with a new bishop in Hexham as well as York . |
| 6 | The Goths , however , objected to this national treasure being handed over , and redeemed it for 200,000 solidi . |
| 7 | But the Labour Party dislikes this prospect , and avoided it in 1967 because of the fear that an elected House might feel entitled to challenge the supremacy of the Commons . |
| 8 | And things like Time Out and so on , and City Limits , tried on the listings in the culture front seem to be seduced by , on the one hand , the need to simply provide information in terms of the listings , or then they felt some kind of twinge of conscience and had to be counter-balanced by radical politics on the other side , which produced a completely split , a paper that you could tear in half and read it as two sort of separate things , and erm and they always erm and something like that always felt |
| 9 | She took her hip flask from her coveralls and emptied it in one long gulp . |
| 10 | An individual who bought the FT All Share Index at 31 March 1982 and sold it on 31 August 1989 would have suffered tax ( at 40% and ignoring the annual exemption ) of 24.2% of the proceeds . |
| 11 | This was quite a long passage for us , but we were lucky with the weather and made it in one leg . |
| 12 | And it was , it was about two hundred pounds a night and got it for ten pounds a night . |
| 13 | I broke off a piece of wood or whatever it is from a tree , if that 's a tree , and flung it at one of the huge pancake things like giant water-lily leaves that floated on the surface of the water . |
| 14 | Simpson called it quantum evolution and described it as one of three evolutionary modes . |
| 15 | If we look at Pound in 1927 and 1928 , when he instituted from or through Paris his periodical , The Exile , and sustained it through four issues , we get the impression of a man yawing about without direction , as at no time either earlier or later in his career . |
| 16 | He clasped the royal hand and plastered it with three lingering kisses . |
| 17 | UN relief flights to Juba — known as " Operation Lifeline Sudan " — were halted temporarily on July 21 , after Sudanese government troops had boarded a UN plane and used it for one week to transport troops and military equipment . |
| 18 | The ball bounced near Scott and he trapped it with his left foot , then swivelled and hooked it to one of the young boys with his right , smiling to himself . |
| 19 | His brother , Tim drove a pick up similar to Simon 's and parked it in one of Banbury 's main car parks . |
| 20 | The Dane Valdemar Poulsen invented his ‘ Telegraphone ’ in 1898 and patented it in 1900 , but ( as with commercial electrical recording ) amplification was needed before it could become practicable . |
| 21 | Leni came back with the coffee and poured it into two non-matching teacups . |
| 22 | A shift in viewpoint , not in technology , totally changed the economics of ocean shipping and turned it into one of the major growth industries of the last 20 to 30 years . |
| 23 | Jane Melvin came to the New Inn at Pembridge in Herefordshire in 1984 , and turned it into one of the most popular country pubs in the county . |
| 24 | He peeled it off and threw it to one side then sat facing the three Americans . |
| 25 | She found she could n't tear her eyes away , and when he managed to get his second boot off and threw it to one side , then lifted his head , she was still staring . |
| 26 | She took some gravel off the top of the pill-box and threw it through one of the slits . |
| 27 | And timesed it by thirty . |
| 28 | Daly started his first round at 1pm , and finished it at 7.30 the previous evening . |
| 29 | She developed a complete mental block against her pregnancy , and concealed it until four days before she went into labour . |
| 30 | DALGLISH 'S Liverpool had not long recorded their biggest League win this century ( 7-1 at Derby ) and followed it with five goals against Leeds . |