Example sentences of "and [verb] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Basically the system is our cover note book control , er , we issue cover note books to agents and it 's up to us to make sure that they 're all issued in sequence , as their legal documents etc , and a minute a gap comes up we have to chase them etc , it 's run by erm , people quite low units and they scared of a job and tend to put it off as lose , and I want to visit and try and influence them so I can give them some help and to change it and bring it up to date , because it 's er . |
| 2 | The lights I work under can get really hot and tend to dry it out so I have to be extra careful . |
| 3 | I feel the need to do something so I buy a dumb little hand-held game and sit playing it while I wait . |
| 4 | I was told that your Earl Siward had the army of Alba immobilised in the south , and expected to overwhelm it . |
| 5 | Respondents were also left a self-completion questionnaire and asked to fill it in and either give it to the interviewer when he or she called back or return it by post ; the response rate to this was 93 per cent . |
| 6 | ‘ I went to see him one evening and asked to borrow it . ’ |
| 7 | But faced with the sound of the word , and asked to write it down , the possibilities multiply so that instead of half a dozen there are now somewhere round one hundred and fifty variants possible . |
| 8 | Jean Pert was sent this poem by a partner in her Prayer Chain and asked to share it with us . |
| 9 | This entailed stopping on the Works premises and calling the fire station at intervals or in the event of a fire , informing them and helping to put it out . |
| 10 | The females , young and old , crowd around the newcomer , rumbling murmurs among themselves , caressing it with their trunks and helping to free it from its birth membranes . |
| 11 | Our commitment to improving the environment and helping to maintain it for future generations can be summarised by these ‘ Green Rules ’ |
| 12 | And you should be happy because you have made your sale , given your customers credit , and avoided giving it yourself . |
| 13 | Gerard said that " all kinds of Hyssope do grow in my Garden " and disdained to describe it , any more than Dioscorides did : " as being a plant so well known that it needed none " ( description ) , and it was illustrated in an Italian Herbal published in 1744 , where it was called H. vulgaris . |
| 14 | Some might say that you 'd been given a job and failed to do it . |
| 15 | The steep-sided valley of Stroud-Water in Gloucestershire must have presented much the same kind of picture , but Defoe does not attempt any description of it beyond saying that ‘ the clothiers Iye all along the banks of this river for near 20 miles ’ ; and Celia Fiennes passed along the high road over the uplands from Gloucester to Bath and failed to notice it at all . |
| 16 | There was the famous occasion when he picked at a wall behind a bus stop while waiting for a bus and found a rare specimen fossil ; and the occasion when he cut his leg while climbing a rockface at Craigleith Quarry and failed to notice it until his Wellington boot was full of blood , whereupon he drove to the nearest hospital for stitches and a transfusion . |
| 17 | I suppose it is out of the question that one of our own police stations might have received such a notification , and failed to pass it on ? ’ |
| 18 | The Stuarts had had their chance and failed to seize it . |
| 19 | To avoid this means careful research of community needs , time and knowhow to conduct it and of course funding . |
| 20 | We see , for example , his debt to Hobbes , who placed great emphasis on the idea of authority and sought to detach it from the idea of consent . |
| 21 | Dicey himself recognized this problem and sought to resolve it . |
| 22 | Judaism , as we have seen , has always emphasised the wholeness of man 's nature and sought to sustain it . |
| 23 | In a letter to his lawyers cited by foreign correspondents in Beijing on Feb. 18 , Wang commented on other " leaders and initiators of this movement " who " dared not take responsibility for it and sought to defame it " . |
| 24 | It stressed the importance of women 's domestic role and sought to expand it . |
| 25 | The habit of association among hand-loom weavers could last as long as the class of workmen itself , or at least until it became too unstable and diluted to preserve it . |
| 26 | Instead , the definition of democracy itself has been revised , adapted , narrowed and diluted to render it compatible with the persisting belief in the necessity or the virtue of rule by elites , with an equally persistent mistrust of " the masses " and , perhaps most important of all , to render it compatible with the existing political systems of the Western world which call themselves " democracies " . |
| 27 | Now he owes her a debt , and goes to pay it . ’ |
| 28 | At a meeting in Guinea-Bissau on July 25-27 , 1990 , the joint co-operation commission , meeting for the first time since the 1980 coup , decided that it was unable to settle the longstanding dispute over the demarcation of the maritime border , and agreed to refer it to their heads of state [ see also pp. 36840 ] . |
| 29 | In return for £900 , Northampton , after consulting the players , waived ground rights for the replay and agreed to battle it out again at St James 's Park . |
| 30 | 13–1–1906 They had under consideration the question of using the Hymnary in the public worship and agreed to use it in the summer if there was no serious collection among the people . |