Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] and [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | When IC2 output , pin 3 , goes high ( positive supply voltage ) current flows through resistor R9 into TR2 base and turns it on . |
| 2 | Well I mean the most of them will obviously go to the cash and er to the er supermarkets and pick it up . |
| 3 | Ellen wondered if he had petit mal and looked it up in a medical dictionary — neither of them went to doctors if they could help it — but the entry was not very helpful , and it seemed in any case the kind of symptom it would be better to be vague about , not define , not name , for fear the naming made it worse , less likely to evaporate out of existence . |
| 4 | She spoke scathingly of Por Tanssie and said it was a place where rich men paid for position and status with sons . |
| 5 | A second very late gene , p10 , which is responsible for the synthesis of a non-structural protein , has been successfully utilized to express foreign proteins either by replacing the resident p10 gene ( 5 , 6 ) or by duplicating the p10 promoter and inserting it elsewhere in the AcNPV genome , eg , in proximity to the ph gene site ( 4 ) . |
| 6 | He intended to take Papa 's money and use it to keep his long-term mistress and their children ; he laughed at me behind my back … while he pretended to my face that he admired and loved me dearly . |
| 7 | ‘ I did n't take Rachel 's money and hide it , I did n't . ’ |
| 8 | Is it not true that the choice for the British people is between our party , which calls for lower taxes and greater spending by the people , and the Labour party , which wants to take people 's money and spend it itself ? |
| 9 | They unrolled the map which had been tucked in Snodgrass 's cloak and spread it out carefully on the ground . |
| 10 | Mrs Kirkley ate one of Millie 's buns and praised it highly ; and after Annabel had eaten one , and then asked if she might have another , her mother exclaimed in mock sternness , ‘ Oh ! |
| 11 | He held it out in the servant 's direction and let it go . |
| 12 | He had forgotten all about his mother 's present and seeing it made him think even more of home . |
| 13 | Now Sylvia picked up Carolyn 's present and waved it under her nose . |
| 14 | He flicked through Jack 's chart and snapped it shut abruptly . |
| 15 | We slap our catch in the frying pan in Teddy 's kitchen and eat it . |
| 16 | As they longed for a spiritual assurance of Christ 's presence and received it in the Holy Spirit which literally inspired in them knowledge and love of God so the meditator may grow in inner spiritual knowledge ( c.33 , 36 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ This crap , ’ Laura took the book from Rex 's fingers and struck it with the back of her hand . |
| 18 | He pulled off part of the officer 's jumper and pulled it tightly across the back of his neck . |
| 19 | Then she took the willow twig , laid it across the bull 's withers and secured it in place with a rope tied firmly beneath the soft folds of flesh on the underside of the neck . |
| 20 | The sale proceeds will be used to pay off Heywood Williams 's debts and give it net cash of £65 million to fund expansion . |
| 21 | She brushed her mistress 's hair and piled it on top of her head in a cluster of curls , carefully and meticulously arranged to look quite casual . |
| 22 | She swept back a handful of Lucy 's hair and pinned it up , first on one side and then on the other ; but before she 'd reached for the scissors to begin , Charlie 's face appeared around the doorway . |
| 23 | A chill October breeze forced its way through countless gaps and alleys in the structures surrounding them , tugging and pushing when it was least expected , lifting Diane 's hair and flicking it across her face . |
| 24 | Caroline felt a stir of anger deep within her breast , not at this artless , naïve girl but at Nicolo , Nicolo with his phony morality , his counterfeit Old World manners — his way of finding a woman 's heart and using it to suit his own needs , whether she was eighteen or twenty-four or seventy … |
| 25 | It does not inherit its parent 's heart and remould it into a new ( and possibly improved ) heart . |
| 26 | However the plans have been branded ‘ ludicrous ’ by Southport 2000 , a group set up to help preserve the town 's heritage and restore it to its Victorian splendour . |
| 27 | Another electronic effect , pioneered for this story , and thereafter used in all subsequent Dalek serials , was the Dalek extermination effect-a very simple trick of opening a camera 's aperture too wide , thereby admitting in too much light , swamping the camera 's electronics and causing it to send back to the gallery a negative image . |
| 28 | Possessed for once by a spirit of happy hilarity , the Indian crowd unhitched the horses from Mountbatten 's carriage and dragged it through the streets ; British officers were lifted shoulder high and cheered . |
| 29 | She looked for Patrick 's photograph and saw it under the sofa . |
| 30 | She reached for her mother 's photograph and laid it in the case with the rest of the things . |