Example sentences of "and [vb past] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What angers me is that they were on a government controlled game reserve and planned it carefully . |
| 2 | She seized a passing shirt and propelled it vainly towards the bird . |
| 3 | Having bought the best you can afford and laid it properly , you should keep it clean . |
| 4 | Luke lifted his hand and laid it softly against her cheek . |
| 5 | Alexei watched as Artai rolled the parchment and laid it aside . |
| 6 | He lifted the edge of the hood , and laid it gently over the shattered head , hiding the face . |
| 7 | Cadfael picked up the psaltery with due respect , and laid it safely aside on the little prayer-desk . |
| 8 | ‘ And … and she grabbed the rope round the mule 's neck and … and led it away to safety , leaving her husband lying in the road . |
| 9 | Cromwell took his army across St. George 's Channel and led it forward ruthlessly and successfully , and by 1650 it was clear that the English government was going to be able to reconquer the island . |
| 10 | She whisked Nicandra 's large linen napkin off her knees and tied it round her waist , then joined her own to it and knotted it securely to the back of Nicandra 's chair . |
| 11 | He felt a trickle of blood touch his lip and wiped it away . |
| 12 | However carefully he spoke , he still released a little dribble from the stiff site of his mouth and wiped it away with a routine gesture of his left hand . |
| 13 | Presently she slid her hand away and wiped it furtively on the upholstery of the seat beside her . |
| 14 | Deuce found a circular box of herbal bath powder and smelled it deeply . |
| 15 | When they reached the prison , at Riom , and an official tried to argue that they had no authority to remove the canisters , Jacques Allier took out a pistol and levelled it wordlessly at the bureaucratic face . |
| 16 | Three streets away an old man dropped a coin into a saucer of acid and swirled it gently . |
| 17 | They had n't heard the scratching sounds since Daak had straightened out the protesting shuttle and lowered it serenely towards the whorled ridges that made up the top of the space station . |
| 18 | He heard his voice shouting and lowered it carefully . |
| 19 | She was careful not to disturb the make-up she had applied secretly before retiring , and checked it quickly in a polished bronze mirror that lay next to the bowl , the deep yellow glow from the oil lamp she had left burning providing her with just enough light to see that none had smudged . |
| 20 | This encourages logging companies to send over plain logs , but it would be more profitable if the countries themselves designed and built furniture and fitments and sold it direct to the West . |
| 21 | The familiar modern terminology was already in use : " bull " already described a dealer who bought stock and sold it ahead of having to pay for it , while " bear " applied to those who contracted to sell stock they had yet to obtain . |
| 22 | As the enclosure movement gained impetus towards the end of the eighteenth century , many of the poor could not afford the fences necessary to confirm their claim to the land , and therefore sold it to the wealthy ; those who could were often unable to raise a living on the poor land they acquired , and sold it too ; those who were squatters had no right to land at all and none to sell . |
| 23 | she has n't gone out and sold it though has she ? for one or two fairly decent names er |
| 24 | Priestley supported them and made it well known , so much so that he was asked not to attend the dinner — just in case . |
| 25 | He drew a clear division between the " free " world and the Communist world , and made it equally clear that if the Soviet Union tried to expand into the free world the USA was prepared to act . |
| 26 | I sought a mandate from my constituents to oppose the poll tax and made it plain exactly what I would do . |
| 27 | The Inspector had seen him earlier that night and made it plain what he thought of him . |
| 28 | There had been a morning of heavy rain before the event and this must have reduced the expected numbers present and made it more subdued than it might otherwise have been . |
| 29 | At the time the experts believed that a previous transfusion sensitised the patient and made it more likely that a transplant would be rejected . |
| 30 | The EOC found that direct discrimination occurred when managers described the mobility requirement differently to men and women and made it more onerous for women to comply with it . |