Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While I was in these fine showrooms I saw exquisite pieces of antique furniture , old silver , paintings , porcelain , figures , antique clocks , masses of objets d'art , and the most fabulous coral and white Meissen porcelain dinner service — I just stood and gazed at it with sheer enjoyment ! |
| 2 | Gassendi adopted it enthusiastically and argued for it at great length . |
| 3 | But Beatriz Lavandera has adopted this approach to syntactic variation in a much more radical form , and argued for it in some detail . |
| 4 | Dolly picked up the chop bone and nibbled at it with sharp teeth . |
| 5 | Newton and Leibnitz discovered the principles of calculus at the same time ( and squabbled over it for twenty years ) ; Darwin thought of how the species evolved , but so did someone called A.R.Wallace , and at exactly the same time . |
| 6 | Pau retains a circle of Anglophiles who cherish the British connection and speak of it with affectionate admiration — not the most widespread of French responses to us . |
| 7 | But that I must try and look at it like this : that Mama had been her very special baby — and so had I. So that could never be the same again . |
| 8 | Landseer praised his Seventy-eight Studies from Nature 1808–1810 and talked about it in some detail in the New London Review of 1810 . |
| 9 | ‘ I slipped it in my pocket and forgot about it till one day when I was down at yon ford and I took a swig and , by God , it 's potent . ’ |
| 10 | Move around the image and look at it from various points of view . |
| 11 | exactly , yeah and we can do that with everything , we can do that with everything , this is my perception and that 's your perception of this thing that I 'm holding in my hand , everything that we 've seen have that ability you know , we 've got the ability to do that with everything , what we need to do sometimes is walk around the issue if you like and look at it from another perspective and , and this is what we 're doing with Ethiopia , now , erm , the good section again was looking at images and particularly the fact that a lot of images are very negative and throwing an alternative view , the second section we 're looking at news coverage which is very sketchy , erm , it does n't provide a complete picture at all , and this third section well you saw what that 's about there |
| 12 | Other causes of distortion include our reliance on our own pet theory of personality ( ‘ Its worked well so far ’ ) , selective perception ( ‘ I know what I want to hear ; do n't confuse me with the facts ’ ) , the so-called halo effect — forming opinions on one piece of information and generalizing from it to other pieces of information ( e.g. ‘ She was brilliant in the Geneva post ; she 'll be brilliant wherever we send her ’ ) , or its opposite , the horns effect ( ‘ He was hopeless in Paris . |
| 13 | Len , as he was known to his legion of friends , was elected to Selkirk Town Council in 1956 and served on it for 18 years , as well as on the then county council for 14 years . |
| 14 | Keep this manual by you when using LIFESPAN and refer to it for specific and detailed information on particular facilities |
| 15 | This is not as objectionable though as the host of descriptions which virtually conceal the identity of the product and refer to it by any of a number of lurid , dramatic or pseudo scientific titles which bear little if any relationship to function . |
| 16 | How would the condition that Fred should collect the car and pay for it within 2 hours be treated in law ? |
| 17 | The centre of this novel is the interpolated tale of the dead and beloved Tom Outland , who discovers a prehistoric and beautiful city in the sun on the mesa , and tells about it in immediate , enthusiastic prose . |
| 18 | ‘ I ca n't help it , it 's this horrible cave … ’ she complained huskily , her fingers finding the spring of his curly hair at the nape of his neck , and raking through it with shameless provocation . |
| 19 | So thank you for 1991 , and go for it in 1992 . |
| 20 | In March we marked John 's seven hundredth day by erecting a cell-like cage in Covent Garden and persuading as many famous people as possible to come and stand in it for half an hour while the press filmed them . |
| 21 | He turned towards the house and stared at it with brooding eyes . |
| 22 | Now they could then say well that particular group of people , if they looked at this evidence that I 've got , would want to say this about it and they would want to change it in such and such a way , and there 's another group of people who perhaps have rather different views on what history might be doing and they would view the evidence and argue about it in this way . |
| 23 | It was here , at the BCHC that I first began to hear the dictionary of cancer , to see the effect of the disease and to learn about it in any useful and positive way . |
| 24 | On the latter point the King felt the same confidence , although less reluctantly , and reacted to it with some lack of consideration by more or less commanding Baldwin not to leave the country for his annual expedition to Aix . |
| 25 | By the stage we define broadly as intermediate , learners are some way towards developing control of the language they are learning : their store of language has grown to a point where they can adapt , adjust and add to it with some facility ; they can transfer language use from one context to another ; they are building up more complex networks of language and the work we do in the classroom at this level is similarly more complex and less controlled . |
| 26 | She moved the chair and leaned on it with one hand . |
| 27 | Letter writers frequently regarded the ZBS as representative of the new social order-. the new nation — and wrote to it with that in mind . |
| 28 | At night she leaves her bed , lights a lamp , and gazes at it from all points of view . |