Example sentences of "and [verb] [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 | The statement praised the intifada and President Saddam Hussein of Iraq , and attacked what it described as " American imperialism and its ally , the Zionist entity " , " the Damascus regime and the Arab Gulf regimes " , and " the Iranian regime " . |
| 3 | Trudging back one evening , having been out all day and having had no luck , Charles spotted a large heap of rocks on the hillside above them , and asked what it was . |
| 4 | At the bottom he found the three letters CIS and asked what it was . |
| 5 | Once you saw the word " prostitution " in a church magazine and asked what it meant , and once " rape " in the newspaper . |
| 6 | On the other hand , on one of my visits I was at a meeting when I heard some commotion outside and asked what it was . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | Dandelion looked at Pipkin and realized what it was that Hazel was asking him to do . |
| 9 | Checking back replies with the parents can confirm these family views and allow the parents to talk further and explain what it means . |
| 10 | One has to try and explain what it is we are about and why we 're doing it and , if necessary , perhaps point out a few distinctions that may exist , for instance , between the professional and the amateur scene , not that I like using those words because I think they 're fraught with all sort of potential misunderstandings . |
| 11 | And so he went the north end and got whatever it was he was wanting and on the way back he stopped at farm to watch . |
| 12 | The Basque separatist movement ETA on Feb. 17 offered to end violent activities and kidnappings if the government agreed to resume negotiations in the spirit of the Algiers talks ( broken off in 1989 — see pp. 36627-28 ) and to establish what it called a " bilateral truce " . |
| 13 | was a little girl on her fifteenth birthday and has it it 's like an M O T Certificate , only it 's an M O L Certificate for life that you have to do after your sixty five . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | they deduct it and send us it . |
| 16 | If you 'd started the motor and used it it would have helped . |
| 17 | There is a need to dally with experience and exhaust what it has to offer ( Deighton and Lynton , 1985 , introduction ; Jenkins , 1958 , p. 222 ) . |
| 18 | decide on the module type and subtype which it is to effect . |
| 19 | We then need to reach in to that inner child and supply what it did not have , and heal it . ’ |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | If Hawkins came along and found him it would n't be her fault . |
| 22 | This is now considered to be extremely dangerous — she could bite and break whatever it is and inhale the broken bit . |
| 23 | It is possible to imagine that for some people such consolation might make it easier to reconcile the two , and to wonder what it was that made the difference in Fraser 's case . |
| 24 | He seemed rather surprised and told me it was painful , but gave in . |
| 25 | He wrote and told me it was on the cards . ’ |
| 26 | Anyway , Jennifer phoned the next morning and told me it was all over . |
| 27 | A neighbor summoned the owner from Dorset and told her it was a scandal that her house should be vacant when young people were looking for accommodation , so she let the house to us . |
| 28 | The PCAS has accused UCCA of poaching after the universities ' system approached polytechnics and told them it would delay the deadline for its 1993 handbook by two weeks to allow them to join . |
| 29 | Another indicated the back of a diner and told them it was Al Capone . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm sure he 'd let us go on using the park if you wrote and told him it was n't us who left the litter lying about , Guider . ’ |