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Example sentences of "and [vb -s] it " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	When he appears on television or in the media , he pooh-poohs and belittles it , and gives the impression that we are exaggerating the problem .
2	I go back and sit down again , and she takes a hold of my hand and squeezes it like she 's saying sorry or summat .
3	He takes my hand and squeezes it hard .
4	So takes it up and knits it on the back .
5	Svidrigailov possesses a body , and destroys it .
6	‘ If Esau comes to the one company and destroys it , then the company which is left will escape . ’
7	Iago not only knows no altruism in himself , he blocks and destroys it in others :
8	The laser heats up and destroys it .
9	( Some pocket calculators will do this ; otherwise one obtains a random integer of 5 or 6 digits from a random number table and precedes it with a decimal point . )
10	Harry takes the matchstick out of his mouth and points it at Howard .
11	‘ One is always grateful for that kind of comic genius who takes your script and plays it for everything that 's in it , ’ as Shaffer told me .
12	Erm well a lot of them are charged part I mean if you think of let's say the neutron , it smashes into a uranium atom which is a big , really massive nucleus , and splits it up .
13	The fundamental underlying principle of homoeopathy is that what a remedy can cause in the way of symptoms and signs it can also cure — that is , the principle of treatment by similars .
14	First , the testator takes a blank piece of paper and signs it at the bottom .
15	The PLAYER gets to his feet and walks over to his barrel and kicks it and shouts into it . )
16	Or does it get left outside , and then somebody comes along and kicks it , and then it 's open and therefore the rubbish is all over .
17	In this way , the combination of light-plus-colour gives the animal a flat , undifferentiated appearance and renders it much less conspicuous to predatory eyes .
18	The 1972 Act first of all gives legal effect to all existing and future Community law and renders it enforceable in the United Kingdom by United Kingdom agencies , including courts , ( s.2(1) ) .
19	Accordingly article 12 comes into operation and renders it mandatory for the court to order the return of the child forthwith .
20	He wrenches his cigarette from his mouth , glares at me and grinds it into the ashtray , disconcerted by the firecracker element .
21	I 'm just trying to keep his feet on the ground and try to make up the yardage , but Lee hits out of the bunker and thinks it has all left him .
22	Stephanie is regularly offered geriatric roles and thinks it is because she was brought up surrounded by archetypal elderly Englishwomen — ‘ I suppose it entered my bloodstream ’ .
23	Hatcher , by contrast , prefers a 1377 figure in the 23/4–3 million range , and thinks it unlikely that this was exceeded until the second quarter of the sixteenth century .
24	They convey a double sense of experience : that of a linear process ; but also of an eternal state of being which informs and transcends it , and which is accessed within the structure of human nature , itself programmed with a restlessness that can be assuaged by nothing less .
25	Not only , therefore , was William party to the decision to request continuation of the supervision order , but he now looks back and agrees it was the right decision .
26	She feels full of it and moulds it into a glowing ball deep within .
27	EMI says the report uses emotive and inappropriate language and insists it wo n't be reviewing prices .
28	British Rail says it can now accommodate 16- or 18-inch wheelchairs in its passenger carriages , and insists it would be unfair to ask those in larger chairs to sit elsewhere .
29	Catechesis takes the experience of liturgy , and evokes it to enrich the meaning of what has been experienced , and in its own way to express praise and thanksgiving .
30	It 's more a case of conceptual comedy that takes a topical theme like the travellers and tackles it in a right-on way , trying to draw the humour from it .