Example sentences of "and [noun] of [verb] it " in BNC.
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1 | No servant should be at liberty to carry it off to a rival in trade and thus save him the expense and expertise of doing it himself " . |
2 | I never tried to copy those guitar players , but I tried to steal it and kind of change it a little bit . ’ |
3 | Of course , deciding how much information to obtain , given the cost in time and money of acquiring it , in itself demands the exercise of judgment . |
4 | In addition there are the more general , personal responsibilities to pupils and to colleagues , and the implicit expectations that they will keep up with their subject and methods of teaching it . |
5 | Increasingly he resorted to the crudest measurements of progress and methods of achieving it . |
6 | You could also erm , start to recognize the benefit of the rural sector , and one reason why they were discriminating , L D Cs tended to want to ignore that and sort of shun it , because it 's not sort of a glamorous image they were trying to hope for in the urban sector , and , so , if they did help them , say give them units , like the repair men , units to work in , and they put them in really totally crappy accommodation , and up not where you need it , and not where people pass by with their motors and things , they , they 'd put them somewhere up on a hill , overlooking a city , so erm , to encourage the informal sector by erm , sort of on a par with the formal sector because erm , their inter- reacting , inter-relating now , like they 're providing cheap inputs for the formal industries and , and the formal industries are pro providing clientele all for the informal sector , and so it 's all inter-linked and , and it 's there now . |
7 | And sort of stop it |
8 | Cho choosing words in if if you think of a parallel with blacksmith , a blacksmith takes base metal and sort of bends it and shapes it to the appropriate shape . |
9 | We stick all my stuff in the suitcase and sort of squash it down so it all fits in . |
10 | or you 've got ta try and stop it , or you 've got ta get in there and and sort of organize it , take it on your shoulders , and I think this , this is a recognition that erm changes were taking place which were taking peasants beyond the straight moderate programme . |
11 | We 've got to sort of create the world , and so forth , and sort of run it , and so on , and , well , try to make some kind of , of , of sort of viable proposition of it , and all the rest of it , and it just seems to me that we can get better results if we treat the , if we treat the sort of , well , for want of a better word , the local inhabitants with a certain amount of , of , of respect , and , and , and trust , and and , if we help them , and and guide them , to the point where they can become sort of independent and sort of self-governing , within the framework of the free , well , of the free , sort of , well , of the , yes , free kind of system that we enjoy ourselves . ’ |
12 | and sort of run it from there . |
13 | This is receiving the material , passing and sort of distribute it to the people within the group who are interested in writing letters . |
14 | The glass ball 's pretty warm now and I press it to my cheek and sort of roll it against my skin . |
15 | Well mm well you , you can but it 'll be nice to , it will be nice to have something , something , you know , kind of some sort of list we can , we can refer to and , and say oh yes oh great he 's handed that one in now and , and sort of knock it off because I know they do keep records in the office but , you know just , just something so , so we know where you are erm and it also kind of er will perhaps help concentrate the mind on what you need to get done erm so er |
16 | Now you can look at that and sort of chant it out to yourself and learn that as a table or learn it visually or vaguely remember some of it and fill in the gaps by going back , What happened when we tried when we dripped ac acid on a metal ? |
17 | I mean if it was working well then maybe you 'd stay an extra year and sort of finish it off but |
18 | No I think just dedication and we , if we made an appearance maybe something would come to a head , things would get sorted , if we just said forget it then stay at home , then the quarry managers would say right forget it , we 'll get another workforce in , you know it was , I think it was just I think some were dedicated to the job and sort of gave it their best , whereas others were slightly you know , willy nilly about it and well I 'll turn up today cos it the weather looks nice , or I 'll turn up today because the wife is n't off and or the gas has run out or whatever . |
19 | And I waited till I 'd got a few bit more money to put in and sort of hid it amongst all these others , mm . |
20 | You see him , cos he 's , Nick goes can I have a poster ? no , they 're only for erm the prettiest girl in Clapton and he shook my hand and sort of giving it yeah , before he drags me behind the counter ! |
21 | Absolutely , says one in three women who took part in our Gallup survey to discover the stresses and strains of juggling it all and how women deal with them . |
22 | I weighed up the pros and cons of doing it , and there were no other pros other than it might be fun . ’ |
23 | I may look into the cost , work involved and practicalities of doing it mainly electronically as well as whether it is worth starting it at this stage of the season . |
24 | Rather than bear the cost and inconvenience of having it put right , he would count the revolutions of the pedals and would dismount exactly in time to adjust the chain manually . |
25 | The NIO wants to know what has sparked the increase and ways of bringing it to an end , said the source . |
26 | First , an Open Forum in October called for significantly better club facilities — notably the men 's changing rooms , and a Development Sub-Committee was constituted to look at the suggestion and ways of financing it . |
27 | Health , emotional and physical , and ways of achieving it , have replaced arguments about religion and spiritual salvation . |
28 | People should be made aware of both actual and potential old age abuse , its causes and ways of preventing it . |
29 | As a follow-up to the surveys , staff and pupils in six schools took part in semi-structured interviews to explore reasons for non-attendance and ways of combating it . |
30 | But , in principle , there are ways of understanding the social world which dispense with individuals , at least as prime movers , and ways of explaining it which rely on them . |