Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stanley Spencer experienced all this and felt it deeply . |
| 2 | The child hates this and resists it fiercely . |
| 3 | He pulled the drawer free and carried it outside for her , setting it on the desk . |
| 4 | Both sets of hedges are getting very overgrown and make it very difficult for pedestrians who are forced out into the middle of the road with the consequent danger from traffic . |
| 5 | So the best thing is to put the piece of paper in in a wadge and then come out on the outside and pack it vertically and put them next to each other like that . |
| 6 | Well tha no that was n't padded that was for do n't quite know what they wanted to do with that erm but there was erm a face that was built up with three different sizes of felt , small , next size , next size up , not not much bigger each time , then you had a piece of calico a little bit bigger , you did a running thread all round the outside and pulled it so that it , lapped over the felt which you had stitched down first . |
| 7 | What we sought to do , in terms of Community competence , in the discussions was to extend it in areas where we thought it was appropriate and to define it more adequately than it has been defined in the past in order to prevent , as far as it is possible to prevent it , that element of creeping competence that so offends many people in this country . |
| 8 | He applied the flannel repeatedly , then wound it around her tender joint and fastened it again with the safety-pin . |
| 9 | I love him to bits but I 'm long past the stage of believing marriage is what makes a relationship real and holds it together . |
| 10 | The next matter is , Is the proposed policy too restrictive and does it adequately reflect national policy guidance on the need to rural enterprise and diver diversification of the rural economy . |
| 11 | or , or paying the bit extra and have it double glazed . |
| 12 | This has been possible because the phrase ‘ sufficient interest ’ is very vague and leaves it largely up to the courts to decide what interests are sufficient . |
| 13 | He was grateful and drank it quickly . |
| 14 | I used to work for a record company as an office junior ages ago and they were always talking about music as being a packet of cornflakes : you just have to make it look right and make it so it 's easy to recognise and people will buy it . |
| 15 | Add to it any points that you may be particularly anxious to get right and discuss it together . |
| 16 | The ‘ problem ’ for management or the owners of organizations is to get the structure right and operate it efficiently . |
| 17 | In 1978 the act was amended to make the earliest mandatory retirement age 70 and to eliminate it entirely for federal employees . |
| 18 | He decided to be subtle and closed it very slowly and carefully . |
| 19 | This is admittedly no easy task , but it stimulates WACC to be vigorous and alert and makes it truly global . |
| 20 | We 've still got thirty still got thirty cos we have n't taken any so perhaps put twelve nought nought under that and take it away . |
| 21 | Use that and take it there |
| 22 | Spirit and flesh both quailed before so difficult and rowdy an audience on so difficult and perilous a subject … as I sat in the committee room while the order of the meeting was being arranged , and heard my audience shouting , singing , crowing like cocks … and keeping up a continuous uproar , I thought to myself , ‘ I have got to go into that and control it somehow so as to be heard ’ … |
| 23 | I take exception to that and regard it as inadequate , for two fundamental reasons . |
| 24 | I made that and put it away . |
| 25 | if I hang on to that and put it away in the garage and hang on to the key so I can get the right , the right lock |
| 26 | And it 's no good actually , it 's not good pulling it like that and pulling it away because it 'll still be there . |
| 27 | Make the mix fairly dry and press it well down into the joints , filling them right to the top and finishing them flush . |
| 28 | This becomes very hard and makes it even more difficult to breathe properly . ’ |
| 29 | He 'd have to pull it very tight and hold it there for about three minutes to make sure . |
| 30 | Lewis was shown a version in 1932 and admired it enormously . |