Example sentences of "and [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he appears on television or in the media , he pooh-poohs and belittles it , and gives the impression that we are exaggerating the problem . |
| 2 | It both created the revolution and paralysed it . |
| 3 | Affliction succeeds in taking the detailing associated with Raymond Carver-style dirty realism and fusing it with the pace of a detective story . |
| 4 | Remove the dough from the bowl and knead it on a floured board until smooth , about 5 minutes . |
| 5 | In the early 1970s an organization was established to govern karate on a world scale and to promote it as a new and fascinating sport . |
| 6 | She had an eye for talent which they respected , she knew how to pick her designers , and could be relied on to spot a trend developing and to promote it . |
| 7 | ‘ Like some coffee ? ’ said Wilcox , taking her coat and hanging it on the back of the door . |
| 8 | She took a towel and hanging it over her arm , she made her way upstairs , her mind spinning with troubled thoughts . |
| 9 | There were stacks of old art magazines , a broken easel , the white-painted bough which Elise had brought down at Christmas before trimming and hanging it over the inglenook fireplace . |
| 10 | But he was a proper But it was in his back yard , he was killing it and hanging it up in the window there . |
| 11 | Shaken off balance by her startling thoughts , Isabel glanced away , stepping out of her gown and hanging it over the table . |
| 12 | Preliminary identification of the peptide binding to the SSB oligonucleotide was accomplished by synthesising a 5' biotinolyated SSB oligonucleotide and attaching it to magnetic Dynal beads coated with streptavidin . |
| 13 | I go back and sit down again , and she takes a hold of my hand and squeezes it like she 's saying sorry or summat . |
| 14 | He takes my hand and squeezes it hard . |
| 15 | So takes it up and knits it on the back . |
| 16 | Jane had decreed bowls rather than plates for the curry and spooned it out in the kitchen whence it was ferried by Christopher , Francis and Martine ( Jane 's mind darted back involuntarily to Puchero and gauchos in Argentina ) . |
| 17 | Kirov stooped over his crumpled form , retrieving the photograph from between his fingers and tucking it safely into his inside pocket . |
| 18 | Taking her hand warmly in his and tucking it into his pocket , he ordered softly , ‘ Tell me about Elinor Browne with an ‘ E ’ . ’ |
| 19 | The price of this combo is excellent for a twin channel amp , but its shortcomings in the lead department may keep it from playing in the World Series and confine it to the Junior League . |
| 20 | If he wishes to make an adjustment , would not it be more sensible to detach their role from advocacy of method and confine it solely to inspection ? |
| 21 | In his study of Wolverhampton , Jones ( 1969 , pp. 348–9 ) maintained that ‘ the parties have enabled individuals to devise a programme of policies and to implement it , and they have presented these programmes to the public in a dramatic and comprehensive way , enabling the public to judge a team of men and measures ; thus the accountability of government to the electorate has been strengthened ’ . |
| 22 | The language helper can give a command , and obey it himself ; he can give a command and you obey it ; you can give the command and obey it yourself ; you can give the command and he obeys it . |
| 23 | The language helper can give a command , and obey it himself ; he can give a command and you obey it ; you can give the command and obey it yourself ; you can give the command and he obeys it . |
| 24 | To go through it sometimes and change it old people like to do that . |
| 25 | It is difficult for anyone to slow down the behaviour that they produce in milliseconds during a real meeting in order to reflect on it and change it . |
| 26 | Take one whole one , from the three whole ones , and change it to twelfths . |
| 27 | You ca n't up and change it just like that . ’ |
| 28 | If you produce an invoice , and on reading it onscreen discover that you have entered £350 instead of £250 , almost every Windows user will expect to drop a text cursor over the offending 3 and change it to a 2 . |
| 29 | My doom I speak and change it never : |
| 30 | It 's very interesting to note that in contemporary political philosophy there is almost no room left for democratic decision making because in most theories that we 're given , more or less everything is already decided at a constitutional level I mean think of theory of justice , it 's the theory of justice that decides the basic nature of a constitution so the role of members of a government is simply to interpret and apply the constitution so they can make the most efficient tax policies given the basic constitution , but no individual has the authority to challenge that constitution and change it by democratic means . |