Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took the paper eagerly and folded it carefully into his wallet . |
| 2 | Quite simply , you need to apply other skills to maximise on those two minutes of swinging the club : the result ? — you play better and enjoy it more . |
| 3 | Every month or so I look inside and close it again . |
| 4 | Any sort of boat could have been used to ferry a body to midstream and to put it gently over the side in darkness . |
| 5 | He mounted the horse he had led for the last hour or so and walked it cautiously down into Buttermere which he entered with the utter conviction that he had been there before . |
| 6 | In this case if our 50-year-old reduced his weight by a stone or so and maintained it indefinitely it may well be enough to control the diabetes . |
| 7 | He had turned to look at her , slipping off his coat as he did so and tossing it carelessly over the back of one of the armchairs . |
| 8 | Willie did so and placed it carefully on the table . |
| 9 | ‘ We found a few , ’ he told her , answering her question about the mussels , pulling off his jacket as he did so and draping it carelessly over the back of the chair . |
| 10 | I had slept for almost four hours more , made myself a mug of tea at about nine o'clock and carried it outside while I wished Mick and Paddy a merry Christmas . |
| 11 | If a break does occur the wire tends to coil up , and it is easy to make the mistake of just tying the broken ends together and towing it straight back to the launch point for the next launch . |
| 12 | Presently she slid her hand away and wiped it furtively on the upholstery of the seat beside her . |
| 13 | NOISE from aircraft using a proposed new flightpath over Tatton Park may drive up to 80pc of visitors away and leave it financially crippled , it was claimed yesterday . |
| 14 | Stealing a gun cover undetected , he brought it ashore and presented it dripping wet to the ship 's captain in a conference . |
| 15 | Then there is another point that I have just touched upon : if sin degrades and hardens us , then this will affect our emotional response anyway and make it even harder for the cross to be effective in inspiring us to change our way of living . |
| 16 | It happened at night in the stable , and in the morning the Untouchable women came and dragged it outside and butchered it just in front of the house . |
| 17 | They 've just gone off somewhere and left it behind . |
| 18 | He would say he had met a friend at the wine bar and gone on somewhere and found it too late to get back . |
| 19 | It 's the basic principle of presentation : almost anything works well as long as you do it deliberately and explain it clearly and pleasantly , and make it interesting . |
| 20 | All of this comes down to one simple phrase : working more efficiently so we can do more and do it better . |
| 21 | I remember the look of relief on your face when you told me it was all over-that I could return home and forget it ever happened . |
| 22 | I said : ‘ I 'll walk home and leave it here ’ but they said : ‘ No way . ’ |
| 23 | I said , I think we should leave it home and have it tomorrow . |
| 24 | there 's the machine , he done it , bring it home and assemble it so , not too much on the heavy side . |
| 25 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 26 | you know er some of them they did a five piece jigsaw easter egg things that when they take them and an envelope to send them off to put it in , so when they take it home and fit it together it says happy easter . |
| 27 | Hughes flew it once and put it away under wraps . |
| 28 | If you are cutting from a severed stem , take it with you to the stock to be budded , or if you are taking a number of buds , get the stem into a deep can of water at once and use it as soon as possible . |
| 29 | We 're still in the business of disposable code , that is , use once and throw it away . |
| 30 | It will you know , you see it done once and do it once yourself . |