Example sentences of "it and [vb mod] [verb] it " in BNC.

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1 If we can improve let's hom let's home in on it and let's improve it .
2 Please note that where an area is marked for cyclists ( as in Middle Meadow Walk ) pedestrians have not been physically excluded from it and may use it ; also children or dogs may run on to it unexpectedly .
3 There was always too much to do and although she hated it when she came as a young bride , she had grown to love it and would defend it with her life .
4 The old nineteenth-century role of Parliament as a body which chose the government , maintained it and could reject it , which operated as an intermediary between the electorate and the executive , has gone .
5 If I 'm going to spend several hundred pounds on an outfit , I make sure I get real value out of it and will wear it a lot .
6 I do not need it and will set it aside for you , my dear boy , to complete your studies .
7 From the moment of it 's birth , in fact poss er , even before it 's actual birth , not long after it 's conception , now that that babe has a will of it 's own , and it will exercise it and will use it .
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