Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | In November , 1990 , Denega approached Steven Mann , 23 , of Ilsington , Devon , and asked him if it was possible ‘ to put a crack in a building using explosive ’ . |
| 2 | By June , however , he had sent the first draft of three scenes to Browne and asked him if it was worth continuing . |
| 3 | so I erm , we watched it , anyhow Monday I went into er Smiths and asked them if it was on tape |
| 4 | Eliot observed how he would take a word ‘ and squeeze and squeeze it until it yielded a full juice of meaning which we would never suppose any word to possess ’ . |
| 5 | Victor breathed on the glass in his hand , and buffed it until it gleamed . |
| 6 | He suddenly wished his grandfather was alive ; how he would have enjoyed showing him all this , listening to the old man and reliving it as it must have been . |
| 7 | If you wish to eat animal products , then the advice is always to buy free-range produce , and to request it if it is not sold in your area . |
| 8 | I lunged for the meth. bottle and caught it before it hit the floor . |
| 9 | She tossed it up and caught it as it came slowly down . |
| 10 | Envy our lives when the sun is shining and forget us when it is wet and stormy . |
| 11 | He moved his hand and touched her breast through the robe she wore , found the nipple and stroked it until it hardened and she stirred . |
| 12 | What one hopes for is for the student to remain open to the possibility of aesthetic experience , to accept and enjoy it when it occurs , but not to fake responses if it does not . |
| 13 | I charged at them , yelping encouragement to the wheelbarrow , and patting it when it had done well . |
| 14 | Enter the steepening corner crack and climb it until it is possible to move delicately left out across the wall . |
| 15 | They let me have one last look and told me that it belonged to someone in another band — which made me feel really guilty . |
| 16 | And Merson revealed : ‘ The boss called me in on Monday and told me that it would be best if I played in the reserves on Tuesday rather than travel with the squad to Blackburn . |
| 17 | It is admitted that there was er such a letter and er on this occasion er Miss evidence is that having heard that the landlords consent for the assignment still had n't been obtained , asked Mr again whether it was possible in view of that , er to withdraw from the contract and er it is case that again Mr repeated the advice he 'd given to Mr two days earlier and told her that it was not possible and that again is denied . |
| 18 | Anyway , the young woman on the other end of the machine survived with daunting ease and told him that it was customary to charge interest on the whole month 's credit , unless it had been paid off in full . |
| 19 | Pointing upwards he indicated a large nest high in a pine tree and told us that it was the nest of a buzzard which had been taken over by a great grey owl . |
| 20 | All of his poems are filled with a quiet irony ; a message to those patriotic leaders and potential soldiers , removing the glory and honour from war — they strip everything but the bare facts from the issue of war and show it as it is , from first-hand experience . |
| 21 | and let me unless it 's there to lose yeah , I mean |
| 22 | He found a rusty man-trap in a cupboard — an evil contraption of chains and springs and teeth — and assured her that it had taken the leg off more than one poacher in its day . |
| 23 | She instantly strode across the shop and took a book from among thousands and assured me that it contained all I would ever need to know about cooking for ever . |
| 24 | A message arrived from a local farmer who had found and secured it until it could be reclaimed . |
| 25 | 12 ) Clamp the sheet of plastic across the top of the box and heat it until it is soft & flexible . |
| 26 | I think if they really want to do it they should go ahead and do it because it 's not going to get any easier . |
| 27 | I sat cross-legged just by the blaze , staring into it from up-wind until it was out and only the metal of the Black Destroyer remained , then I took the sooty skeleton and buried it where it had been ruined , at the bottom of the hill . |
| 28 | That 's still there now , cos they used to take it up there and dump it when it were n't any good . |
| 29 | You get a lot of people who 'll tell you how to sing and play , and stop you because it sounds a bit out of tune , but he 'll say , ‘ No , there 's soul in there , even if it is slightly out of tune . |
| 30 | ‘ Aye , to blaspheme against it vigorously and violently , and consume it if it can . ’ |