Example sentences of "and [verb] it [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eliot observed how he would take a word ‘ and squeeze and squeeze it until it yielded a full juice of meaning which we would never suppose any word to possess ’ . |
| 2 | Victor breathed on the glass in his hand , and buffed it until it gleamed . |
| 3 | I lunged for the meth. bottle and caught it before it hit the floor . |
| 4 | She tossed it up and caught it as it came slowly down . |
| 5 | He moved his hand and touched her breast through the robe she wore , found the nipple and stroked it until it hardened and she stirred . |
| 6 | What one hopes for is for the student to remain open to the possibility of aesthetic experience , to accept and enjoy it when it occurs , but not to fake responses if it does not . |
| 7 | I charged at them , yelping encouragement to the wheelbarrow , and patting it when it had done well . |
| 8 | I sat cross-legged just by the blaze , staring into it from up-wind until it was out and only the metal of the Black Destroyer remained , then I took the sooty skeleton and buried it where it had been ruined , at the bottom of the hill . |
| 9 | Adam went back to his private world as the plane bucked across the sky , the unseen hands of the veering winds twisting and turning it as it flew towards Hanover . |
| 10 | Yeah , well , I I I might , it might not be definite , but I think they want to go and see it before it goes on , and it 's only a fiver , and I 'd really like to see it . |
| 11 | She kept hold of his arm and shook it till it became elastic and extended out of its socket like a conjuror 's string of handkerchiefs . |
| 12 | Ballesteros took world golf by the scruff of the neck and shook it until it reformed into patterns more nearly to his liking . |
| 13 | They seemed to smell the air and if a lone bird hove in sight , they 'd pick it up when it was no more than a speck and watch it till it disappeared , and everything about it would be important to them — the direction of its flight , the way it flew , its height above the water , and so on . |
| 14 | Comfort agreed and enjoyed it when it came , but the sparkle and fun had been taken out of their conversation by the unfortunate choice of the word ‘ gossip ’ . |
| 15 | He he lifts it through and pulls it till it goes on his leg . |
| 16 | He suddenly captured her hand and placed it where it had been before , over the steady beat of his heart . |
| 17 | A psychiatrist emphasized the importance of preparing for the emotion of loss and recognizing it when it comes . |
| 18 | He lifted a sock from the floor and pushed it into her mouth , then held a silk blouse out by its cuffs and spun it until it became a rope to hold the gag secure . |
| 19 | And differentiated it and it gave me K T well forget about the K it 's only a number it 's only |
| 20 | The cricket periodically tests the size of its acoustic horn and adjusts it until it resonates at the frequency produced by its wings — a remarkable feat since it can only gauge the efficiency of its amplifier by detecting the changes in pressure waves within the chamber . |
| 21 | er she bought these new leather shoes quite a while ago , but even they and they were the widest she could buy , but they needed stretching , so Joanne , Paul 's girlfriend , had got one of these shoe stretching things , you put it in and twist it and it goes up and up , well even that at it 's highest would n't , you know , at it 's furthest , well it was sticking out as far as it could go , even that was n't filling it , so she stuck a spud down the end of it |
| 22 | I 've got the phone number er it 's just a case now of er getting on and getting it advertised and marketing it but it 's all been signed |
| 23 | Ensuring that adequate resources are allocated to support the change and to maintain it once it has been achieved ; |
| 24 | It 's worth taking the assumption by the scruff of the neck and shaking it till it falls apart , otherwise there will be no fundamental lasting change in relationships , the school will remain inward looking with no real growth in active listening and responding . |
| 25 | And you just put a drop in there , heated and leave it till it hardens and then sandpaper it down level . |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | To assume so would be seriously to underestimate the ability of civil servants to use the rhetoric of Keynesianism when it suited them and to ignore it when it did not . |
| 28 | ‘ You have to accept politics is an uncertain business and take it as it comes , ’ she said , adding firmly , ‘ I 'm quite sure he 's going to win . ’ |
| 29 | If you have a weapon , kill it quickly , else you must punch and kick it until it vanishes in a puff of smoke . |
| 30 | So I said I was tired of waiting for the money for my things and she can collect it from the students and have it when it came . |