Example sentences of "[noun] and [adv] [vb base] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark on parallel lines with the pastry wheel and then use it to wrap round the sides of the cake . |
| 2 | Take in breath quickly through the mouth and then let it escape in an even hiss . |
| 3 | The CME hopes to entice more foreign users to its product range and thus enable it to globalise its contract markets without the need for linkages or extending pit trading hours . |
| 4 | However , after dark the plants and algae stop producing oxygen and instead use it to respire . |
| 5 | Want to sort of put on the top of the wardrobe and then make it drop |
| 6 | Together for an instant and then smash it 's all gone still its worth it . |
| 7 | Handlers guided it down the ramp with ropes and then let it wander away rather unsteadily . |
| 8 | After details of the case emerged , the student movement never regained the broad base and wide influence it had once had on the Japanese political scene . |
| 9 | If we stopped trying to rig the market in money and instead let it change hands between willing borrowers and willing lenders , its price would certainly tumble and might just about halve . |
| 10 | He squeezed her hand for a moment and then let it go . |
| 11 | Parties to CITES must give the secretariat the finances with which to do its job and not oblige it to raise its own funds in ways which lead to question and criticism . ’ |
| 12 | I ca n't believe anyone would be stupid enough to trail a wire on to power cables and then leave it lying around for someone to touch . ’ |
| 13 | Electric immersion heater , er , ah , oh of course we had an Ideal boiler under there and it , that 's what heated this kitchen actually an Ideal boiler and it heated the water in the winter and also heated the , and in the summer we let that out and had an immersion heater , well being in the electrical trade we had an immersion heater all the time and if we wanted to top up from the boiler we used to just put the immersion heater on for a erm week or so and get hot water and then let it go off in the winter time , you know , but er we have n't made a great deal of alteration to this place really , we 've put a new front door on fairly recently , that was one of the things that er was very ugly , they , the back of the front of the doors to look at , ooh they were ugly doors |
| 14 | ‘ It is a great shame that we should provide such a superb facility and then see it treated like that . ’ |
| 15 | More work is also needed to reduce the memory structures to dimensions of below five thousandths of a micron and so enable it to operate at room temperature . |
| 16 | It is less clear whether it can be used to measure plant area though a possible technique is to redesign its optical system to focus on a small area and then use it to scan a larger area , agreeing that a reading above some pre-determined level is ON , below it is OFF . |
| 17 | ‘ He taught me how to tie a package with very little twine and very little paper and still make it look nice , ’ Walton later recalled . |
| 18 | Maria made a tiny whimpering sound as Luke moved a hand to the tautness of one high breast and then let it drop to rest a moment on her lap . |
| 19 | They ordered calvados and played canards , dipping the sugar cubes in the tawny liquid so that the surfaces just met , the liqueur drawn up through the sugar , flushing and softening it until at just the right moment , a split second before the sweetness might dissolve and fall into the drink and spoil it , you tipped your head back and took the lump on your tongue and either let it melt there , or gnashed the singingly sweet grit of the sugar grains . |
| 20 | Now tense the whole of your right leg and then let it go . |
| 21 | They were in control of life and never let it buffet them about . |
| 22 | Songs like ‘ High As A Kite ’ , ‘ Drop The Bomb ’ and ‘ Highway 's Gate ’ scrape the sky and then bring it crashing down to earth . |
| 23 | Such bodies could ease the burden on central government and so help it to concentrate on matters of national importance . |
| 24 | ‘ Luke — ’ Shaken , desperately needing to know the cause of such possessiveness , Maria lifted a hand and then let it fall helplessly . |
| 25 | If you putt the ball , you can hit it firmly to the top of the bank and simply let it roll down to the hole . |
| 26 | And I 'm angry that I 'm not doing anything , ’ so I thought maybe for once I could use my name — my fame — in a constructive way and maybe make it heard above that dreadful silence . |
| 27 | Kevin Doyle of Caledonian Holdings [ the owners ] wants to keep the site in good order and not have it used as a car park as at present . |
| 28 | Kevin Doyle of Caledonian Holdings ( the owners ) wants to keep the site in good order and not have it used as a car park as at present . |
| 29 | Now , Carol 's noisy insistence that he take his coat into his own office and not leave it to drip on the communal coat-stand . |