Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , because governments and ministers still retain political objectives and motivations , they will attempt to guard jealously information within their purview and to use it in such ways as to influence and direct public opinion . |
| 2 | The operation of the wheel is unusual , being a variation on the overshot type in which water falls on to the top of the wheel and turns it in the same direction as the water 's flow . |
| 3 | If you have quick release wheels , take off the front wheel and lock it to the frame and back wheel . |
| 4 | He had taken one hand from the wheel and held it up in protest . |
| 5 | " Besides all this Tristan learned to ride nimbly with shield and lance , to spur his mount skilfully on either flank , put it to the gallop with dash , wheel and give it free rein and urge it on with his knees , in strict accordance with the chivalric art . |
| 6 | ‘ If they keep their bikes in garages , they should consider removing a wheel and putting it in the house . |
| 7 | Alternatively , an economical and effective way of securing your car is to fit a strong chain and padlock around the steering wheel and attach it to the seat , clutch or brake pedal . |
| 8 | It also reduces the load on the tail-skid or wheel and makes it slip sideways more easily . |
| 9 | I understand that Wyre Borough Council are standardising all the play equipment throughout the borough and bringing it up to British Standards safety requirements . |
| 10 | Its presence will indicate hostility towards religion and make it very difficult for people to take religion seriously . |
| 11 | Only Sinead O'Connor would have the courage , the reckless spirit , to take on songs made famous by the greatest singers — Ella Fitzgerald , Billie Holiday , Peggy Lee — to sing them live in front of a 47-piece orchestra , then take on organised religion and blame it for child abuse , and damn the consequences . |
| 12 | I have great admiration for all those involved in the Academy of Culinary Arts and think it a fine , courageous and important creation , but can someone explain how a meal of such ineptitude can be served in its name , and how some of the best chefs and restaurateurs in the world can have eaten it without public comment ? |
| 13 | We camped upriver from the falls , stalling the leap into the chasm of some of the water by boiling it on the Trangia and making it into Earl Grey tea . |
| 14 | she does wan na get a wig and cover it |
| 15 | As this knowledge of the remedies grows in you , do not be surprised if you sometimes ‘ just know ’ which is the right remedy and know it without any doubts . |
| 16 | It will be helping with localisation and pushing it on Apple Computer Inc 's Power Book line . |
| 17 | It 's like I took a completed album of all kinds of different songs and threw it up in the air and it came crashing down . |
| 18 | There are organisations which take a positive approach to creative thinking and build it into their staff development structure by organising creative days or even weeks . |
| 19 | The most curious thing is that we actually esteem this sort of thinking and consider it clever instead of facile . |
| 20 | ‘ I had daft wee notions about setting up a mobile massage unit going round theatres at matinees getting people 's shoulders out of their ears and calling it Feels on Wheels , ’ said the Glasgow-born actress . |
| 21 | ‘ I had daft wee notions about setting up a mobile massage unit going round theatres at matinees getting people 's shoulders out of their ears and calling it Feels on Wheels , ’ said the Glasgow-born actress . |
| 22 | My mind 's got so flexible I could pull it out of my ears and tie it under my chin ! ’ snapped Gurder . |
| 23 | It will be important too to let her see that you understand her special kind of grief and respect it . |
| 24 | He looked upwards now at the bunting stretched across the girders of the platform , then said , ‘ With a little imagination you know I could dismiss the Coronation and take it that this show of affection was all for my being twenty-one today . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , the real value of land is constant ; and capital invested in it will not deteriorate with inflation ; in the long term the purchase of a smallholding even at inflated prices , can make sense if the buyer can hold back enough to put it in order , and stock and equip it . |
| 27 | A PEDIGREE Charolais heifer has been donated by Harry and Jean Marguess of Muckamore for the ‘ Farm for Africa ’ project , part of an overall drive spearheaded by Magheralin Parish Church to buy a 100-acre farm in Uganda and stock and equip it . |
| 28 | Geraldine checked no one was looking , took one daffodil and dropped it over a wall into a garden . |
| 29 | In many ways , he would have preferred to have been able to give himself over to the delusion and accept it as truth ; but there seemed to be a definite boundary here , and it was n't his choice whether or not he crossed it . |
| 30 | The county council had wanted to demolish the towering and elegant stone-built landmark and replace it with a more functional concrete and steel structure . |