Example sentences of "it [adv prt] [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Send it on soon and work to a deadline |
| 2 | He took off his trench coat , shivered in the cold , shook the dirt off the coat , put it on again and slipped behind the wheel . |
| 3 | Add the oil very carefully , drop by drop , beating in between each drop to avoid curdling until about a quarter has been added , then mix in the rest , pouring it in slowly and beating at the same time . |
| 4 | It is exactly the sort of corkscrew I always use but the room was so dark and I so flurried that I drove it in sideways and broke the cork . |
| 5 | You lower it in gently and sloosh it about so that the acid covers the surface . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ I took it in yesterday and asked for it to be repaired as soon as possible . |
| 7 | Drain it down again and refill it once more with fresh water , closing air vents one by one as radiators fill up . |
| 8 | I picked up a book , but put it down again and began looking at a tiny red spider on the leaf of a geranium , ad lost count of time . |
| 9 | Scathach led the way to the gate , pulled it down again and mounted his own horse . |
| 10 | After a few seconds she drew it down again and strained her ears . |
| 11 | She placed it down again and sank a little into herself . |
| 12 | Then he laid it down again and sat back in his seat , resting his dark head lightly against the cushions . |
| 13 | But you ca n't even leave it down here and pick it up later |
| 14 | If you do n't want to finish it just put it down there and keep quiet . |
| 15 | If you thought what the people said possessed an intrinsic interest , if you wrote it down verbatim and pictured yourself as a sort of secretary to the outside world , recording something which had its own imaginative value but would otherwise have been lost , then you are one sort of writer — a naturalist . |
| 16 | To his everlasting credit , Ritchie , instead of having the intruder thrown out , read it through carefully and promised to hand it personally to Auchinleck . |
| 17 | Meryl switched it off again and stared across the room , her heart thudding . |
| 18 | They did indeed put the kettle on , but then the Bishop took it off again and said he needed a drink more , oh , that poor fellow ; and his wife said , ‘ And his poor wife . ’ |
| 19 | Or should he just take it off again and hope that she 'd come back in time . |
| 20 | He dropped his briefcase on the chesterfield , and Mrs Stych snatched it up crossly and took it into his den , while he went to the refrigerator in search of ice cubes for a drink . |
| 21 | The sinking feeling I get when I fold it up again and stuff the envelope under my bed makes me realise how much I wanted it to come up with some answers . |
| 22 | Do n't look at the whole answer and then cover it up again and think right okay that 's a start and then try and do all I mean you 're not going to have the book to help you in the exam . |
| 23 | Well switch it off and bring it up again and see if it changes . |
| 24 | He picked it up immediately and looked at it closely , his hands shaking . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've got to weigh it up carefully and make sure I can justify my selection . ’ |
| 26 | You can also use your yarn for weaving , which by combining it with another fine yarn , will lighten , darken or brighten it up considerably and leave you with a beautiful fine fabric . |
| 27 | That 's still there now , cos they used to take it up there and dump it when it were n't any good . |
| 28 | I made it up there and scrabbled through into the bathroom . |
| 29 | Evelyn opened it up idly and began to read . |
| 30 | A copy of Return Safe from the Wilderness lay on a workbench , and I picked it up idly and looked through it . |