Example sentences of "it and [verb] it [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I wonder how substantially it 's going to re-written , first , in order to make it a response rather than an issue raising paper and ah , secondly , in the light of what we 've all had to say this evening and , if it is to be re-written I wonder erm who is going to actually see it and approve it before it goes off in time to get to the health authority by the day after tomorrow ? |
| 2 | and he said crikey look at this , what am I gon na do here and he sort of had to fill quite a big gap in , but he sort of pushed it and filled it and then the wallpaper goes up so you can just see it , a little bit , what 's a name now , just in the hall there 's a bit |
| 3 | Sign it and sell it if you must . |
| 4 | So we 've got to read it and sign it and we have to say that we understand it and we 've received it basically . |
| 5 | She stood over the foal licking it and nuzzling it and licking it again . |
| 6 | And , if people would appreciate it and keep it as it should be cos to me , I think there 's a lot of error in people neglecting their places . |
| 7 | I looked over the refurbished Factory again , just because I love looking at it and tinkering with it and touching it and tipping some of its little levers and doors and devices . |
| 8 | I know all this , we 've been told it and told it and I 've said it . |
| 9 | Following Sunday I came down to wash it and polish it and now we 've got blue stickers in the bathroom the heater ! |
| 10 | but as I wrote this and you know put in the acc th the conflict , it came up to two thousand five hundred words and I taped it and timed it and I 've been butchering it and cutting out all the really nice little sentences and the nice sentences and I 've got it down to two one sixty and now with that announcement on the end , as I 've got it taped , it 's fourteen minutes fifty-nine seconds for a fifteen minute slot , so it 's about as precise as you 're gon na get it . |
| 11 | Schumpeter advocates it and describes it as being ‘ that institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people 's vote . ’ |
| 12 | and chewing it and chewing it and chewing it and chewing it |
| 13 | and chewing it and chewing it and chewing it and chewing it |
| 14 | starts to wind fan fold paper and wind it and wind it and wind it |
| 15 | Erm the only thing that occurred to me I just wondered if she knew somebody who had a dearly loved dog that , did n't want to train it but you know she could perhaps just take along for the joy of running it and training it but I think part of the pleasure is the reflected glory you know it 's my dog |
| 16 | Why do some of us shy away from it and regard it as ‘ bad ’ ? |
| 17 | I , you know I , I just loathe the thought of leaving it and leaving it until the next thing is you 're going up for her funeral you know ? |
| 18 | No you did it and stuffed it and all that . |
| 19 | Anyway , I have no access to it , and have to cart metres of black metal piping back from the town and sweat and labour over it , bending it and cutting it and boring it and crimping it and bending it again , straining with it in the vice until the bench and shed creak with my efforts . |
| 20 | Every day , I always used to stick my head around the office door and say , ‘ Anything for me today ? ’ — and one day they said , ‘ Well , we 're looking for dancers for the BBC 's production of Pistol Shot ( which was a play by Chekhov ) — maybe you 'd like to do it and choreograph it and use some of your students ? ’ |
| 21 | Anyway , I have no access to it , and have to cart metres of black metal piping back from the town and sweat and labour over it , bending it and cutting it and boring it and crimping it and bending it again , straining with it in the vice until the bench and shed creak with my efforts . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | So the application is concerned with maintaining the accounting data and maintaining the integrity of that data but you have absolute flexibility in the tools that you use to access it and manipulate it and present it in your organization . |
| 24 | He created space when you needed it and closed it when you did n't . |
| 25 | She worries it and worries it and |
| 26 | Julia opened it and read it as she made her way towards the Accademia Bridge . |
| 27 | We put in the wrong substances , we overload it and mistreat it and yet we still expect it to work efficiently and well , day in and day out , for the whole of our life . |
| 28 | As predicted , the small lumps vanished , the gland remained — unchanged — and after a few weeks , I grew accustomed to the feel of it and forgot it until Dr Dingle rediscovered it during my 1988 medical . |
| 29 | Betty discouraged a fly from sitting on it and watched it as she prepared a salad for herself . |
| 30 | When he arrived that morning David appeared cool towards her — so cool , in contrast to the friendly relationship they had previously established , that Nina noticed it and mentioned it while she and Rachel were working out a list of appointments for management medicals . |