Example sentences of "and [verb] it [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can be a two-way flow ; a good home base can help to create contentment , and at the same time personal satisfaction in life will feed back into the home and make it a pleasant environment for others . |
| 2 | ‘ He has long arms and I think he 'll use them to hold me off and make it a long bout . |
| 3 | ‘ Who 'll come in tae ma wee hoose , tae ma wee hoose tae ma wee hoose ; for who 'll come in tae ma wee hoose and make it a wee bit bigger ! ’ |
| 4 | In late 1991 LIFFE revised its ECU bond contract specifications in an attempt to increase its liquidity and make it a viable product rather than delisting it . |
| 5 | Therefore , if you really want to move the business forward and make it a great business , you 've got to live it . |
| 6 | We must sacrifice the most valued possession among us and make it a burnt offering . |
| 7 | Right come the morning arrived and and somebody else I ca n't remember who though , and there we were all ready to go and were walking with the press into the massive great shed where they roll the paper and make it a massive place the size of a couple of football pitches , we were just going in the door and somebody said to me they 're no gon na be using their flash guns are they ? |
| 8 | In the last months of 1989 the people of Central and Eastern Europe take it upon themselves to address the future and make it a different place to be in . |
| 9 | propel it along and make it a little bit different to the book erm with some of the other things , I mean for example if you erm get stuff off , I do n't know , for example people like Ian erm |
| 10 | I think it 's about time we actually put that word back into the dictionary and made it a good word to have . |
| 11 | While nineteenth-century Catholic teaching had been suspicious of ‘ human rights ’ discourse , John embraced it eagerly and made it a central theme , greatly extending the range and number of ‘ rights ’ , including those of minorities ( 95–7 ) and refugees ( 103–8 ) . |
| 12 | This position put its schools in the forefront and made it the leading school of Europe from the 1140s , until Paris began to take the lead in theology and philosophy ( but never in law ) in the 1180s . |
| 13 | Well Julie went and got it the other day that 's why fetched her out , to get their presents . |
| 14 | Grimma took another step forward and caught it a backward thump across the muzzle . |
| 15 | Health physics monitor Steven Crozier , a fitness enthusiast who was one of the group who visited Peel Park to collect the 1993 award , tried out the new multi-gym and pronounced it a real asset ( below ) . |
| 16 | I found my way to a temperance hotel advertised in the guide-book and found it a homely house . |
| 17 | We made the locks at Gairlochy on Saturday evening and found it no great hardship to lay there throughout the following Sunday . |
| 18 | ‘ And if you pick one of these creatures up and place it a little distance away on the surface of the water , all its fellows will see is that it vanished , and reappeared elsewhere . |
| 19 | However , some remnants of the latter ( the Citizen Army and Sinn Fein Volunteers ) seized Dublin in 1916 and proclaimed it an Irish republic . |
| 20 | But another judge will come along and give it a fine mark , but |
| 21 | According to Maybury-Lewis ( 1971 : 33–6 ) , the Shavante , both men and women , have a passion for meat , and consider it the prime delicacy : in fact , however , they subsist primarily on wild roots , nuts , and fruits from the collecting trips of women . |
| 22 | In the evening of Valentine 's Day , do take two white oak leaves , and lay them across your pillow , when you go to bed , putting on a clean shift or shirt , and turning it the wrong side outwards , lay down and say these words aloud , ‘ Good Valentine be kind to me , in dreams let me my true love see . ’ |
| 23 | It 's usual to hang ceiling paper parallel with the main window in the room , but if you 're tackling the job for the first time and the room is noticeably shorter in one dimension , you may find it easier to manage shorter lengths and hang it the other way . |
| 24 | He let the minion struggle and kick for a little while , then hoisted it back out , shook it , and turned it the right way up again . |
| 25 | Cut off two , inch long pieces of gummed tape and , moistening no more than one-quarter of an inch on each strip , stick them on the top edge of your cartridge paper by holding the brown paper hinges and give it a good shake . |
| 26 | A high six-iron was the mutual decision , since there was just a gentle breeze to hold the ball up and give it a good chance to stop quickly . |
| 27 | NEXT MONTH How to brighten up a dark hallway and give it a new lease of life |
| 28 | You must save the file and give it a recognised DOS filename for a permanent record of your work . |
| 29 | Instead he was confronted by the tall , dark man whose hand was extended ready to clamp on to the sergeant 's and give it a hearty shake as if he were an old friend . |
| 30 | A well-informed horseman simply had to grasp the horse 's head firmly and give it a sharp turn and back him out of the area that had been contaminated by the jading substance . |