Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes went to her head and he snatched her hat free and flung it into the back of the car . |
| 2 | The sentence trailed off as Hitch pulled the Beretta free and aimed it at the crewman . |
| 3 | Keep close watch on the stitches , it is worth working a little slower to make sure that all the stitches have knitted and should you find that an occasional loop stays over the needle after knitting the row , set the main carriage for EMPTY and move it across the knitting to knit any unworked loop . |
| 4 | Teesdale District Council turned down an application for the sign on the ground of it contravening the town area local plan but the inspector said it was acceptable and allowed it for the next five years . |
| 5 | The co-existence of IP 3 Rs and RYRs may somehow help to integrate information coming in from the outside and to relay it throughout the neuron through the process of CICR already described . |
| 6 | Now Lizzy had taken all that her grandmother held dear and dragged it through the dirt . |
| 7 | The visionary places in the ordinary the elements of the eternal and raises it to a higher plane of reality . |
| 8 | It is essential that all Teachers fill in the enclosed form with regard to information for the Annual Report as soon as possible and return it to the Office or to at the latest by the end of January . |
| 9 | Nevertheless the constructive work of Communists in the Blitz and the war factories kept the Party alive and put it in a good position to exploit the opportunities for expansion that followed Hitler 's invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 . |
| 10 | I chose Miller for you , he could drink a distillery dry and chase it with a brewhouse . |
| 11 | If the SNP manages to overcome its bitterness towards Labour and join it in a united push for change , the cause of devolution could well be advanced . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's like doing a jigsaw and making your own pieces up ’ , said Mrs Joel as she deftly removed a petal that was too large and replaced it with a smaller one . |
| 13 | WordPerfect have found the multi-tasking capabilities of OS/2 valuable and see it as an important platform for future development . |
| 14 | The Eskimos of Alaska were collecting amber and trading it at the late summer fair held at Kotzebue on the north-west coast down to recent times . |
| 15 | Louis carefully folded his handkerchief into a square and laid it on the deck beside his chair . |
| 16 | He calmly snapped the sawn-off closed and swivelled it from the hip towards me . |
| 17 | Swansborough closed the file with a snap and pushed it across the desk . |
| 18 | The economic affairs commissioner , Henning Christophersen , said the overall Clinton plan was encouraging and compared it with the EC 's own plan to spark the economy out of recession . |
| 19 | All you need to do is fill in the registration card that comes with your software or peripheral and pop it in the post box . |
| 20 | Two of the drovers took a strip of white cotton about 20 yards long and held it across the top of the quay , and it did for a fence . |
| 21 | I 'm trying to make it more beautiful and transform it into the language of clothes . |
| 22 | The landlord collects the charge on the basis of the number of days a person has been resident and passes it to the local authority . |
| 23 | The problem is that soap washes out the natural skin oils which keep our skin supple and protect it from the ravages of the outside world . |
| 24 | When he did let it out , he did so in a rather peculiar fashion , linking it to a quarrel with Mauve and casting it in a dramatic mode , with himself in the first and then third person . |
| 25 | I cut the crop quite green and dry it on a Tyrolean-type wire fence ( see p. 108 ) . |
| 26 | If smoking is allowed it stops people doing it in secret and making it into a clever or fashionable thing to do |
| 27 | He folds the paper open and lays it on the desk . |
| 28 | Language , however , should take the form of dialogue : whereas the universality of reason means that it must necessarily renounce all singularity , and whereas language 's function in conceptualizing thought is to suppress the other and bring it within the aegis of the same , in dialogue language maintains the distance between the two ; ‘ their commerce ’ , as Levinas puts it , ‘ is ethical ’ . |
| 29 | During the Winter period , remove the rhizome , cut the leaves right at the base , trim the fibrous roots very close and place it in a container with clay and sand or clay and sand covered with water . |
| 30 | Ever since 1986 , when the Wyoming Game and Fish Department took the last black-footed ferret from the wild and placed it in a captive-breeding programme , the intention has been to reintroduce the species to the prairies of Wyoming as soon as enough individuals had been bred . |