Example sentences of "and [vb base] [pron] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I pick up something and drag it it makes this white noise sound , ’ Gaver demonstrates . |
| 2 | How can it help me do my job ? point of view the reason is that it can help you do your job is very simply that to involve members of the public er local councils , local authorities , decision makers and allows the outcome to , to erm entertain them and to erm hope for and communicate what it is they 'll come erm in a non-threatening , non-selling , non-hard sell environment where they can come along , they can enjoy themselves and go away and form their own opinions without somebody over the head with what they 're try to sa trying to do erm |
| 3 | So if we got erm yeah , so , yeah that I 'll , I 'll erm I 'll get Brenda to go get me a rec erm , a menu and send me it . |
| 4 | they deduct it and send us it . |
| 5 | There is a need to dally with experience and exhaust what it has to offer ( Deighton and Lynton , 1985 , introduction ; Jenkins , 1958 , p. 222 ) . |
| 6 | decide on the module type and subtype which it is to effect . |
| 7 | We then need to reach in to that inner child and supply what it did not have , and heal it . ’ |
| 8 | I mean if somebody did grow a tree I mean , it must be harder in that kind of area but but wi with the right will for people to plant a tree and grow it it 's just as easy |
| 9 | Well St Aldate 's in the Civil War is quite a problem to talk about really , erm in half an hour , because it 's so enmeshed in the story of Oxford in the Civil War which is a long , very interesting one , so what I 'm going to try and do is erm to pick out some of the local landmarks that did survive in the 17th century and relate them to what we know about some of the people and in this short half an hour , just try and picture what it was like to live in St Aldate 's during the civil war . |
| 10 | So , next time you prepare for the carve gybe think your way through it and imagine what it feels like to bear away , bending the knees and , at the end , flipping the rig . |
| 11 | Try and imagine what it 's like . |
| 12 | ‘ And imagine what it must have been like before all those modern office ‘ towers ’ were built to dwarf it — especially if you happened to be a traitor . |
| 13 | Central to the manifesto is the party 's commitments to increase education provision and halt what it sees as the erosion of social services in the county . |
| 14 | The Shah had made a showplace of his country with his colossal purchasing of weapons , and look what it had all come to : ‘ If you drive from Shiraz to Isfahan even today you 'll see hundreds of helicopters parked off to the right of the highway . |
| 15 | ‘ And look what it 's called ! ’ said Mum , pointing to the nameplate . |
| 16 | ‘ I was driving home from Berkeley today and I stopped to give a chap a lift , and look who it was . ’ |
| 17 | I said to him I 'll wrap it up and give you it for your Christmas present ! |
| 18 | You do n't have to be a historian to know a pretty flower when you see one , and although this is not intended to be a text book — there is more than enough literature available to fulfil that function — I do suggest that your enjoyment of roses can be enhanced by knowing just a little about the many different kinds , and such matters as why they are cultivated in certain ways , why they are pruned , and so on — and to see a strange word , and know what it means ! |
| 19 | ‘ Sometimes when I take him to the local toddler group and watch him playing with the other children , I think it would be great if he could just feel the sand in the sandpit between his toes and know what it 's like to get his hands all messed up with play dough or paint — the things other children take for granted . ’ |
| 20 | But I like to look at something and know what it 's saying , I mean what is , what is the canvas ‘ Blue on Black ’ actually saying ? |
| 21 | Always meet the opposition and hear what it has to say . |
| 22 | Gradually , each successive shot brings us closer to the action and eventually to the actions of individuals , allowing us to see their expressions and hear whatever it is they are saying to each other . |
| 23 | you see I 've got one in the front room and I had this one put in so then I say if I am in the kitchen , I say , I lift up the receiver , hello , and hear who it is and then I , I say hang on while I get round the chair and then you see I sit on the arm of this chair and talk because er it 's difficult to stand too long |
| 24 | My family ca n't understand why I might need to eat more , and tell me it 's greediness . |
| 25 | ‘ Now piss down my back and tell me it 's raining . |
| 26 | If I were he , I 'd build Lord P[almerston] an office with all the capitals upside down ; and tell him it was the Greek style , inverted , to express typically Government by Party : Up today , down tomorrow . |
| 27 | ‘ If I go now I 'll meet the constable on the way and tell him it was all a misunderstanding . ’ |
| 28 | And tell him it 's temporary . |
| 29 | Ring him now and tell him it 's from me . |
| 30 | I felt a perverse , and entirely unfair , urge to bang their heads together and tell them it was their duty to be depressed and scruffy like me . |