Example sentences of "[verb] it [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Along zones of plate convergence , especially where these occur along the margins — of continents ( such as along the west coast of South America ) , buckling of the oceanic lithosphere causes it to founder and sink into the underlying asthenosphere , thereby forming a subduction zone . |
| 2 | What instruments has it employed and with what degree of success has it pursued the task of reform ? |
| 3 | If it is how has it happened and who erm er who 's to blame ? |
| 4 | I want to write about it here so that new writers will know it exists and perhaps be brave enough to address this difficult aspect of our experience in their work . |
| 5 | What we do is buy it barrelled and and |
| 6 | Change incontinence pads frequently , and pay special attention to the person 's skin , keeping it washed and dried . |
| 7 | As it moved it creaked and crackled , an old tree moving over crisp leaves . |
| 8 | He let it fall and they ran down through the field after Caspar . |
| 9 | Every time he walked that 's him come back again and every time he stopped it stopped and this happened a few times and he was very scared and he thought he had better go and see what the noise was and anything well it was just a pet sheep tangled up in its tether . |
| 10 | He accepts it happened and he is appalled by it , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Joan had not visited Brian 's grave in five years and had expected to find it neglected and overgrown . |
| 12 | Leaving it , they marched to Hastings , to find it deserted and on fire ; in retribution for this ‘ scorched earth policy ’ they burnt Rye to the ground . |
| 13 | Of the mammalian orders , the insectivores , the ungulates , the Cetacea , the carnivores , and others , each comprises an array of forms of which every one is adapted to a particular habitat with a mode of life enabling it to live and reproduce there . |
| 14 | I 'd heard so much about the blinking cruise being in October and not in September that I 'd considered it done and June , fool that she is , chose not to challenge me outright because her tactic is to suffer in silence until her suffering spills from her like lava , devastating everyone in its path . |
| 15 | I want it extended and that was fine . |
| 16 | There are many different designs of tap available and the one you choose will depend on the job you want it to do and the design you like . |
| 17 | When you write a program yourself , you know what you want it to do and you also know what it ca n't do . |
| 18 | ‘ I hope that means what I want it to mean and not something else . ’ |
| 19 | You hand it in before Easter if you want it marked and checked . |
| 20 | With these , you define a chunk of text as an actor — you can do this either in the movie editor or in the Cel editor — and can then define , via dialogue boxes , how it appears onscreen , any movement you want it to have and how it departs the screen . |
| 21 | But I 've ordered a navy blue skirt and I 'm praying it comes and if it comes it fits . |
| 22 | If you do n't support the roof you can expect it to fall and two men were hurt . |
| 23 | She says it slipped and set off the magic eye which set the baler off which crushed the bottom part of my leg causing me to lose the tissue and muscle from my ankle up to my shin . |
| 24 | Sun says it did and still is delivering the thing in volume — it 's just not enough to meet backorders . |
| 25 | Slightly overheated by food and wine , she uncoiled her feather boa and put it to fly and float from the back of her chair . |
| 26 | So it was not until 30 August that Brusilov struck hard at the Austrian right , causing it to collapse and its formations to retreat westward in panic and confusion . |
| 27 | Farmers had demonstrated , as they had to Arch in the 1870s , that once the seed is in the ground they can happily watch it grow and starve their workers , if necessary , into submission in the meantime . |
| 28 | Having grasped the use of silence you now have to quieten your own brain , stop it muttering away to itself about all the things you need to do and may forget , stop it reacting and getting on its high horse when all it needs to do is to absorb information and store it for future reference . |
| 29 | There was a good deal of air ahead of him — he could feel it moving and there was a considerable space above his head . |
| 30 | Its skirt was so full that the slightest movement caused it to swirl and lift about her legs . |