Example sentences of "and [verb] it [adv] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However carefully he spoke , he still released a little dribble from the stiff site of his mouth and wiped it away with a routine gesture of his left hand . |
| 2 | If hesitating between a peach and a pear you languidly inspect sniff and fondle the fruit before deciding for the pear , and eat it slowly with a look of bliss , no one who has left behind the absolutism of childhood ( ‘ Anyone can see that a peach is nicer than a pear ’ ) will doubt that you made the best possible choice between the flavours ; the rightness of the choice , and the objective fact that in the fullest awareness of the two flavours you were spontaneously moved to take the pear , are two sides of the same coin . |
| 3 | It grabbed a chair , crunched the metal — like paper , and flung it aside with a snarl . |
| 4 | He applied the flannel repeatedly , then wound it around her tender joint and fastened it again with the safety-pin . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't think I have had the pleasure of meeting you before , ’ she said , transferring Flossie 's lead to her left hand and entangling it dangerously with the milk can , whilst proffering her right . |
| 6 | Make a custard in the ordinary way , but add 1 cupful of fresh marigold petals , beaten , to 600ml/1 pint/2½ cups of milk and heat it gently with the remainder of the custard ingredients . |
| 7 | They could gather food with the beak-like premaxillae , manipulate it with the large tongue ( possession of which is suggested by the extensive hyoid bones in the throat ) and crop and slice it efficiently with the powerful jaws . |
| 8 | The Bill gives protection with one hand and takes it away with the other . |
| 9 | Heady stuff , and to reject it outright with a condescending intellectual leer would have felt like a return trip down the chute into futility ; but now , with the radio offering a bleaker view of things , I was less certain why I 'd agreed so eagerly to meet him in the library of the Hall this morning . |
| 10 | Rob the Grinder ‘ ran sniggering off to get change and tossed it away with a pieman ’ , DS 38 . |
| 11 | The student leaders had written a statement accusing the government of practising ‘ state terrorism ’ and comparing it unfavourably with the white minority rulers of South Africa . |