Example sentences of "it and [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the same principle as the female body receiving the male sperm , and , after it has conjoined with the egg , nourishing it and gestating it so that its form can grow from fundamental simplicity to the complexity of a human body . |
| 2 | The people surrounding it and supporting it — and by now many are living off it — are fitter and are living longer than ever before . |
| 3 | Ideally , Praxis would like IBM to adopt the installer , productise it and bundle it with the RS/6000 , though it is ‘ far too early ’ to say whether this might happen , says the firm 's Stephen Robertson . |
| 4 | The post office was owned by two white-haired sisters , Annie and Lizzie , far out cousins of her own , and Annie stamped the envelope for her , postmarked it and dropped it in the calico bag on the counter . |
| 5 | And Hilderbridge lay in the sunshine , its slate roofs all turned to planes of silver , its spires sharp needles , as if a silversmith had made it and dropped it in the valley between the meadows and the moor . |
| 6 | In the latest issue of Moscow News , Daniil Granin said Czechoslovakia 's efforts to create ‘ socialism with a human face ’ was ‘ the first perestroika in socialist countries , and we crushed it and slandered it . |
| 7 | But help is there for those who need it and seek it . |
| 8 | Somehow it always righted itself and reached the front , where new hands seized it and raised it high so that everyone could see it . |
| 9 | on nine , facing Tufnell , digs out a full-length ball and guides it down on the off side , poor old David Lawrence has to give another painful chase their from backward point , but er , he lumbers after it and sends it an energetic return on the er , he 's swivelling round as he threw it . |
| 10 | I slid a fingernail under it and peeled it away , leaving a tiny redness on the skin . |
| 11 | Terror gripped her so completely that she was incapable of opening it and let it fall to the floor where — she very nearly followed it in a faint . |
| 12 | That that 's lubricant that 'll loosen it and let it work its way through nice and gently . |
| 13 | The lady like , you know you have to hold it and let it go right . |
| 14 | It is not necessarily a soft option to tame wild animals , for to do so involves understanding their nature , being at one with it and drawing it into new forms of behaviour . |
| 15 | If it is mechanical , Filipinos seem to be able to manipulate it and adapt it . |
| 16 | SunSoft has also lined up several large US distributors namely Ingram Micro Inc , Merisel Inc , Tech Data Corp , Access Graphics Inc and Gates F/A Distribution Inc to peddle it and says it has authorised over 2,000 US resellers to handle the product . |
| 17 | SunSoft has also lined up several large American distributors namely Ingram Micro , Merisel , Tech Data , Access Graphics and Gates F/A to peddle it and says it has authorised over 2,000 US resellers to handle the product . |
| 18 | is n't it ? , right , but I mean , he has , he 's had other problems to compound it and distract it |
| 19 | They cut it and chop it up . |
| 20 | The little girl hesitantly offered the bowl to Marion , who for a moment looked as if she would snatch it and throw it at her . |
| 21 | Expand it and throw it onto the ground on the other side of the wheelbarrow . |
| 22 | She 'd pick up a great lump of it and throw it over a nail and then oil her hands with spit and draw it out and out in a long skein , till it was smooth as glass … ’ |
| 23 | That 's another thing you see that that that today you had a a tin ladle and it ever the ladle sort of leaked or developed a hole in ti you did n't discard it and throw it away , you used to go and buy what was called a , which was two little tin washers with a little bit of , I ca n't remember if it was f a fabric or or rubber , two pieces and you put one on one side and one the other and then a little screw and bolt went through , nut and bolt went through it and tightened it up and that stopped your leak , and that ladle then lasted a lot more a lot longer time . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's too bad you ca n't put your ego in a box , tie a rock to it and throw it out into the lake , ’ she said sweetly . |
| 25 | But he was a proper But it was in his back yard , he was killing it and hanging it up in the window there . |
| 26 | It was only a one-sided lock , which is completely and totally different to an ordinary lock er working both sides , you see what I mean and er I er I 'd got to er make a key , number thirty-nine just like that , see but I had it and I could find out what thirty-nine was and I could make them one and send it and knowing it would fit see and er when they had different people working there , you know staff , things like that , not a lot of orders but er somebody else come . |
| 27 | As much conflict is constructive , the goal of a manager is to use it and to allow it to be exorcised . |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | Dougal brought the letter to Lorton , who read it and sealed it . |
| 30 | As we have already said , this does not mean recognizing that an individual has died , being quite able to cope with it and pretending it does n't matter . |