Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] and [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To find you and give it to you . ‘ |
| 2 | The Founders were to be the guardians of the purity of the paper , protecting it and keeping it in touch with the grass roots which they represented . |
| 3 | There were plans to revive it and turn it into an Ulster Loyalist pressure group when a leading member , Archibald Whitmore , an ex-member of the Ulster Volunteer Force , announced to influential people at the Bath Club that he planned to develop the BF in Ireland along the same lines as the movement in 1914 . |
| 4 | If we examine their structure , we shall perceive the way in which the wishful purpose that is at work has mixed up the material of which they are built , has rearranged it and formed it into a new whole . |
| 5 | An unidentified spokesman for the V&A was quoted in The Independent newspaper of 16 May , 1992 ( which featured several colour illustrations from the album ) as stating , ‘ We have always said that we could not raise the money to buy it , but would be very happy if someone would buy it and give it to us ’ . |
| 6 | you might as well buy it and leave it at home . |
| 7 | Caroline jerked her hand back , and Nicolo caught it and held it in his . |
| 8 | The connotations of this in the creation of manhood were made clear by Baden Powell , founder of the Scout movement , who observed that masturbation checks the semen from getting its full chance of making the strong , manly man : ‘ You are throwing away the seed that has been handed down to you as a trust instead of keeping it and ripening it for bringing a son to you later on . ’ |
| 9 | Ruth shall unpack it and put it on you . |
| 10 | And why should the palm be so thickly clotted , almost as if another 's hand had lifted it and smeared it into the blood at the throat ? |
| 11 | I grab it and squirt it at the gape of her frightened mouth . |
| 12 | Minto House is being sold to a Japanese consortium whose intention is to dismantle it and ship it to Japan . |
| 13 | He believed that his body was a good guide to his character and he punished it and indulged it by turns . |
| 14 | We have to get special stuff called bulb fibre and wet it and put it in a bowl and then we plant our bulbs in it . ’ |
| 15 | She had a small torch in her case , and spared the extra minute to find it and thrust it into her pocket . |
| 16 | She sucked her teeth , took another ticket down at random , glanced at it , crumpled it and tossed it into the disposal by her left knee . |
| 17 | Which brought her back to the sack and to the Friar who had carried it and left it in their care . |
| 18 | He looked round for the phone , found it and took it to the woman , laying it in her lap . |
| 19 | ‘ There is a letter somewhere , ’ Sister Cooney searched until she found it and handed it to him . |
| 20 | He found it and packed it among orange and strawberry lollies so it could be taken to Middlesbrough General Hospital to be sewed back on in a four-hour operation . |
| 21 | I 'd find something as er pretty near to what I wanted , you know and I could perhaps , and did , use what 's called beeswax a lot , you know and er warm it up and ply it and put it onto er something to make it to what the shape I wanted , you know . |
| 22 | But he had written all over this one — the handwriting was unmistakable — before tearing it and throwing it on the floor . |
| 23 | This formal writing-up took nearly twenty years : it is one thing to collect data , and another to evaluate it and make it into public knowledge . |
| 24 | Then either dismantle clean , lubricate and reassemble the old valve , or remove it and replace it with a more modern and reliable one . |
| 25 | If you 're not going to fly , remove it and store it in a dry spot . |
| 26 | Well can you empty one of those and put it and put it in that bucket . |
| 27 | The sweat that had begun in anticipation of what she might encounter in the street now ran in fear of her mother 's rage ; Nunzia 's eyes had gone hard and wrinkled like black olive pips when Rosa had produced the plover , and she had clucked impatiently with her tongue when Rosa lied and said her grandfather had shot it and presented it to her . |
| 28 | So , Sir , because of that quality of the Queen 's Speech , I support it and recommend it to the House . |
| 29 | Now it is something that you could find out for yourself but on the other hand it is there and I would like to highlight it and bring it to your attention . |
| 30 | Lowes did in fact trace many of the images unerringly to their source ; and what was even more interesting was how Coleridge 's mind took the raw material of some explorer , and twisted it and mixed it with many other ideas to produce the incomparable poetry of The Ancient Mariner and Xanadu . |