Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb -s] it [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This monitors nine separate areas of the car and immobilises it if someone tries to break in . |
| 2 | A wide recording head stretches across the jumbo roll of tape and magnetises it before it is slit to domestic size . |
| 3 | The tube can be lowered into the tank and once a syphon has been made , the tube picks up gravel and agitates it and once you apply your thumb to the end of the hose , the gravel falls back to the bottom , leaving you with clean substrate and a bucketful of dirty water . |
| 4 | The PLAYER gets to his feet and walks over to his barrel and kicks it and shouts into it . ) |
| 5 | The UK , however , is far from happy about the prospect and sees it as helping to create a paradise for criminals , terrorists and drug traffickers . |
| 6 | So it 's an attempt on , on , on the second level to minutely reconstructing historical , the lost , the truest but what really happened and in that on that level , it 's important for Freud to establish that Moses was not Jewish but Egyptian , because this gives him the link with Egyptian monarchism and the events of the exodus and explains it as well . |
| 7 | Brundle puts the car into a massive slide across the bend and catches it after we have left the track on the other side . |
| 8 | I do n't know how strong it is because as I say , erm most contracts of employment do include a provision that if somebody h has a driving licence and loses it and driving is part of their work , even if it 's only a minor part of their work , then the employer can erm dismiss . |
| 9 | Marie helps me off with my coat and holds it while I slip the jacket on . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The cricket periodically tests the size of its acoustic horn and adjusts it until it resonates at the frequency produced by its wings — a remarkable feat since it can only gauge the efficiency of its amplifier by detecting the changes in pressure waves within the chamber . |