Example sentences of "and [verb] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Nathan closed the folder and laid it on the starched tablecloth . |
| 3 | He dropped a long , searching kiss on her mouth , then took her shaking hand and laid it against the powerful , overpowering size of his arousal . |
| 4 | When he had begun to eat , I'tibar Khan entered with the box and laid it before the unhappy father , saying : ‘ King Aurangzeb , your son sends this plat to your majesty to let you see that he does not forget you . ’ |
| 5 | It became known as the Pleven Plan , named after the French premier , René Pleven , who took an outline drafted by his earlier mentor , Jean Monnet , and laid it before the French Parliament on 24 October 1950 . |
| 6 | He placed the beings , pictured as animals , in a belt embracing the known universe , and divided it into the twelve equal houses of the zodiac ( Aries , Taurus , Gemini , Cancer , Leo , Virgo , Libra , Sagittarius , Scorpio , Capricorn , Aquarius and Pisces ) . |
| 7 | The change-over day from one occupancy to the next was on a Saturday , when our admirable Jane Jones arrived to clean and prepare it for the next lot . |
| 8 | For the electronically minded , the easiest method is to obtain a 25 Kohm volume control from a radio spares shop , mount this in a metal box to screen it from hum pick-up , and connect it into the audio dub line . |
| 9 | The champions have to overturn a daunting 3-0 deficit at Elland Road tomorrow night if they are to get past Stuttgart and make it into the European Cup second round . |
| 10 | Frodo the Ring bearer does not really want to carry the Ring and offers it to the elf-queen Galadriel . |
| 11 | First we raise one index and contract it with the remaining covector index to give . |
| 12 | The plan for converting the large volumes of the mill interior into living accommodation involved retaining the entrance into the lean-to engine house and using it as the main entrance to the building . |
| 13 | He took the ladder and slung it into the snow-covered bushes . |
| 14 | Th thing is , you can put it on there , put it on sta you can er film it , and bang it on the big screen over there . |
| 15 | They seem to have bullied him and made him er , make concessions , and the question that Freud and Bullett constantly ask is , why did Wilson make these concessions , especially since his position was already defined before he came to Europe , you know he already laid down the fourteen points , and sold it to the American people . |
| 16 | This enabled us to calculate the ratio of cortex to ganglion cells for the region enclosed within the labelled sites and to compare it with the same ratio obtained for the rest of the retina . |
| 17 | Troopers lifted the throne from its staging and passed it to the waiting hands below . |
| 18 | The main benefit of owning a garden , no matter how small , is getting out there and enjoying it to the full . |
| 19 | Human computation is wonderfully sensitive to context ; it captures the spirit in the message and turns it into the appropriate letters . |
| 20 | The operation of the wheel is unusual , being a variation on the overshot type in which water falls on to the top of the wheel and turns it in the same direction as the water 's flow . |
| 21 | For example , many a small child knows that to alleviate the pain and irritation of a nettle sting he need only reach for the nearest broad-leaved docken , ( Rumex obtusifolius ) and rub it on the offending part for instant relief . |
| 22 | Bursting a good big dam , or even just letting it overflow , is almost as satisfying as planning and building it in the first place . |
| 23 | Coarsely chop the chicken and combine it with the soy sauces , rice wine or sherry , salt , sesame oil and cornflour . |
| 24 | Here you are trying to have your cake and eat it at the same time … |
| 25 | She took off everything that could identify her , and stowed it in the bottom layer of her jewellery box . |
| 26 | The six relics go in , and , after carefully expelling all air , I fasten the neck with string and push it into the white saddlebag . |
| 27 | and push it into the big |
| 28 | When turning a corner into the next aisle of the shop , do n't tamely walk round behind the trolley and push it in the new direction . |
| 29 | With that he snatched up the bottle and flung it through the open window into the yard . |
| 30 | Here , he introduced into New Testament criticism the idea of ‘ myth ’ , and applied it to the supernatural elements in the gospels . |