Example sentences of "it and [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard had already been remarked as the kind of small boy enchanted by small girls and deaf to the ridicule of his peers on the matter ; on this occasion he watched Victoria twist her curls around her fingers in motionless fascination for ten minutes , then followed her for the rest of the afternoon , fetching drinks and finding seats , carrying her favourite blue rabbit when she dropped it and picking out the choicest pieces of bread and butter for her at tea . |
| 2 | If it does , no consequent action is needed ; if it does not , then either discard the generalization or amend it and try out the fresh implications . |
| 3 | Then , as your write a letter the computer interprets it and pops up the letter it thinks you have written . |
| 4 | Now you can look at that and sort of chant it out to yourself and learn that as a table or learn it visually or vaguely remember some of it and fill in the gaps by going back , What happened when we tried when we dripped ac acid on a metal ? |
| 5 | They jumped it and went up the opposite slope . |
| 6 | Parish council clerk at Gainford Margaret Brown said : ‘ They should n't strictly have been on the bridge but a lot of people do walk on it and climb over the small barricade at each end . |
| 7 | Minutes later it rammed a police car which tried to stop it and headed up the M5 . |
| 8 | The information carried by an amplitude-modulated signal ( see section 5.9 ) is recovered by rectifying it and filtering out the carrier wave to leave the amplitude-modulating wave . |
| 9 | Leave the brush in the oil for several hours , or longer , and then remove it and squeeze out the oil and work the brush backwards and forwards over plain brown paper or the side of a clean carton . |
| 10 | The mob tried to overturn it and drag out the driver . |
| 11 | He folded it and smoothed back the sheet . |
| 12 | In the former , Lord Macmillan hesitated ‘ to hold that in these days and in an industrial community it was a non-natural use of land to build a factory on it and conduct there the manufacture of explosives . ’ |
| 13 | But we were able to work through it and come out the other side . |
| 14 | Easier to imagine Sisyphus looking forward to the cigarette which will make his lungs heave under the effort of work and which , when he has finished it and tossed away the butt , will add to the rubbish below . |
| 15 | Adam quickly crossed to the desk , leant behind it and pulled up the register . |
| 16 | Doubly foolproof in a way , since the 103/4 is , as I had been led to expect from someone in whose ears I have complete trust , one of the most ‘ out-of-thebox ’ loudspeakers that I have had the pleasure to use — one can be very quickly up and running with it and feel only the need to make relatively small adjustments to positioning and so on in due course as listening progresses ; such changes with this loudspeaker result in subtle rather than profound modifications to the sound . |
| 17 | Plummer crossed to it and picked up the receiver . |
| 18 | And the woman seemed in no hurry to close it and shut out the dangerous night ; she simply stood , looking down at the children and smiling . |
| 19 | They went to Zliten and spent the night in a guestroom ; in the morning the Zliten boy asked to borrow the vehicle for a few moments , drove it away , smashed it and abandoned both the vehicle and his Zuwayi friend who had to find other means to get back to Benghazi . |
| 20 | She grabbed hold of it and peered down the microscope again . |
| 21 | The bag struck the paving , bounced , and now the boy caught it and peeled away the bag to reveal a football which he struck in a high , curling shot which ricocheted off the wall slightly to the left of a priest who had emerged from the large church which dosed off one end of the piazza . |
| 22 | I 'd like to raze it and plough over the site like the Romans did with Carthage . ’ |
| 23 | By the time she had eaten it and cleared away the dishes , dusk was beginning to fall . |