Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] and [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many old people tell their elderly friends , in confidence , that although they worry sometimes about various things in the house that need attention and are beyond their capabilities , they do n't like to keep mentioning ‘ this and that ’ to their children when they visit , as they are only too delighted to see them and feel it is a bit hard to put them to work as soon as they arrive . |
| 2 | He felt for the edges of the square door , found them and lifted it gently . |
| 3 | To find you and give it to you . ‘ |
| 4 | Jack hid in the churn , but she found him and turned it round and round . |
| 5 | As his faithful knight Bedivere cast Arthur 's sword Excalibur into the waters of Llyn Llydaw the hand of the Lady of the Lake rose up to catch it and draw it down into the depths forever . |
| 6 | The record company folk who have been talking Gulf and eating her sarnies leave and Susanna draws up a chair , sits on it cross-legged and starts to play with her hair , twisting it and knitting it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Terror gripped her so completely that she was incapable of opening it and let it fall to the floor where — she very nearly followed it in a faint . |
| 9 | opening it and shutting it , |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He wanted to drink it and touch it and explore it , for , he thought , surely there can be nothing so magical as the moment when you know , beyond all question , that the woman you desire desires you in return . |
| 12 | Here and here alone the bourgeois and even more the petty bourgeois family could maintain the illusion of a harmonious , hierarchic happiness , surrounded by the material artefacts which demonstrated it and made it possible , the dream-life which found its culminating expression in the domestic ritual systematically developed for this purpose , the celebration of Christmas . |
| 13 | Then empty it and allow it to dry . |
| 14 | So fine is it that even the slightest movement in the air will catch it and lift it . |
| 15 | Humans ca n't catch it and pass it on , especially not through solid glass.in But he refused to give ground on this issue . |
| 16 | However , many things had happened during the two years since she had been told that her mother had died of the fever and that , prior to this , she had not been allowed to see her in case she should catch it and spread it further . |
| 17 | But he did much more than write : he drew it and painted it . |
| 18 | How he 's supposed to tax and insure it and run it ? have said ! |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It was only a one-sided lock , which is completely and totally different to an ordinary lock er working both sides , you see what I mean and er I er I 'd got to er make a key , number thirty-nine just like that , see but I had it and I could find out what thirty-nine was and I could make them one and send it and knowing it would fit see and er when they had different people working there , you know staff , things like that , not a lot of orders but er somebody else come . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | you might as well buy it and leave it at home . |
| 23 | And er I mean , things like squid and that I ca I quite like , but I 'd never think of get buying it , I would n't buy it and cook it myself or anything . |
| 24 | In the morning erm we got some bread and put it on the window and came down and we caught it and put it out again . |
| 25 | People walked round it , a pram wheel caught it and dragged it a little way . |
| 26 | Caroline jerked her hand back , and Nicolo caught it and held it in his . |
| 27 | Ronni caught it and threw it back at him , impatient of his criticism . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | Plus , taking , keeping it and doing it if you see benefit in that . |
| 30 | You see , he knew he would get more income in the long run from returning your hat than from keeping it and selling it . ’ |