Example sentences of "it and [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I put my forehead against it and hung on with both hands . |
| 2 | As one of my comrades put it : " One bloke tried it and finished up in the Glasshouse . |
| 3 | There simply is n't any dramatic , conflict in a story about a purported villain who wears a Beatle cap , drinks from a huge glass with fish in it and gazes out from his island home on the great blue sea as he waits for his pursuers , a pair of handsome would-be lovers who sing songs like ‘ We could of , we should of , perhaps we can . |
| 4 | When the Sergeant returned with steaming liquid in a tin container , Charles warmed his hands round it and gazed out across the flat expanse of his new command . |
| 5 | And the worst part was , everyone else seemed to understand it and strode out to the quay full of knowledgeable confidence . |
| 6 | There was only forgetting it and getting on with her present life . |
| 7 | You know we 've corrected it and gone on about it and discussed it . |
| 8 | I sit astride it and reach down for him . |
| 9 | I ran towards it and flopped on to an old bench . |
| 10 | The bulldog twitched and sniffed the air , started to rise but thought better of it and flopped down with her head on her paws . |
| 11 | If it can not see the source of the danger , it can not turn to face it and lash out in defence — there is nothing there at which to lash out . |
| 12 | Well it and shut up to there with and that you can |
| 13 | Then he crouched over it and squared up to an imaginary ball . |
| 14 | There was no time to raise it and draw back for a stabbing blow . |
| 15 | I do not cast directly over the swim , but several yards beyond it and draw back to the swim before the bait can settle , covering all areas of the swim and many spots out of it . |
| 16 | He carried her glass across to the mini-bar , re-filled it and walked back with it to the bed . |
| 17 | and left it and walked off in the kitchen . |
| 18 | I left them to it and went up into my tree-house . |
| 19 | Marion Conroy was on stage until the final curtain calls and came up the stairs with the rest of the cast afterwards , observing as she did that Pepper went into his No. 2 and shut the door but that Cissy opened it and went in after him , the wide-eyed babyish stare that was the caricaturists ' joy quite absent . |
| 20 | Eventually I left them to it and went off into the night , the bells keeping me company through the streets . |
| 21 | Sara left her to it and went out to the kitchen to begin the dinner . |
| 22 | His fingers were bloody and in his eyes there was such despair that I could not stand it and went out into the filthy courtyard ’ . |
| 23 | Dalgliesh left him to it and went out into the passage . |
| 24 | I pushed the black case deep into the hanging space again , stood up outside the door , closed it and went back to the scenes of jollity to the rear . |
| 25 | Anyway , whatever , it got pretty popular for a bit before everyone got bored with it and went back to staring out of the window and hiding Brian Smart ( and his accessories ) in the stock cupboard . |
| 26 | When we sat down for our sandwiches , I made him go away with the grisly thing , but we could still hear him crunching away behind a rock — first a crunch then a cough as he swallowed a feather , then another crunch then more coughs until he realised there was no future in it and came round for a sandwich . |
| 27 | Garry answered it and came back into the kitchen with two policemen . |
| 28 | ‘ And I threw back the bedclothes before I had any more time to think about it and burst out of the bed ; threw myself into the middle of the bedroom , screaming and roaring and thrashing about . ’ |
| 29 | I was outraged by it and got on to Smith at once , saying that on no account should the students be flogged and that if the sentence was carried out I would leave immediately . |
| 30 | Slightly overbend it and bend back to the correct angle |