Example sentences of "and [verb] it [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remove the dough from the bowl and knead it on a floured board until smooth , about 5 minutes . |
| 2 | In the early 1970s an organization was established to govern karate on a world scale and to promote it as a new and fascinating sport . |
| 3 | UCLA 's head of the Art department , Henry T. Hopkins , is taking over the directorship , and he plans to show special exhibitions in the building and develop it as a cultural centre for ‘ lectures , symposia , dance , film and poetry readings ’ . |
| 4 | ( Some pocket calculators will do this ; otherwise one obtains a random integer of 5 or 6 digits from a random number table and precedes it with a decimal point . ) |
| 5 | The Levellers articulated this awareness , and channelled it into a coherent set of democratic political demands . |
| 6 | He took her protesting hand , and laid it on a thick roll of tablecloths between their bodies . |
| 7 | Seeing the latter in one-dimensional terms , and characterising it as a weak version of the more prestigious intellectual analogues used ( design as weak art or weak science ) , such models never explored design — cognitive activity from its own standpoint or in respect of its own efficacy . |
| 8 | And when you 've made your choice , we 'll deliver your new machine and connect it to a suitable service point — completely free of charge and within 24 hours . |
| 9 | She feels full of it and moulds it into a glowing ball deep within . |
| 10 | If they do not pay , he will take the land back and sell it to a rich friend . |
| 11 | Jimmy had the gun in his hands now , and levelled it with a cool and grim purpose at Rohmer . |
| 12 | Beggars ca n't be choosers though , he thought philosophically as he got up , removed the boiling kettle from the gas ring and emptied it into a small china teapot . |
| 13 | If , a week ago , someone had told her it might happen to her she would have laughed and treated it as a huge joke . |
| 14 | Her advice is to try and treat it as a normal meal . |
| 15 | A frame store could freeze any moment of the action on screen , and display it as a still picture . |
| 16 | It was sent by the museum to Skinner 's where it slipped through and was bought by a dealer who also failed to recognise its quality and sold it to a young couple for $550 . |
| 17 | He organised my stag weekend last year and made it into a memorable one . |
| 18 | But he left to take on the run-down Staffordshire country house called Alton Towers and made it into a top leisure and theme park . |
| 19 | She folded the silver square of wrapping paper in half and made it into a little boat . |
| 20 | At Skouriotissa a bulldozer scoops up ancient slag and dumps it on a new road . |
| 21 | Like the Eighties terrace tearaways in Britain who showed up for the match in Barbour jackets and deerstalkers , these B- boys were appropriating the ruling class style and parading it with a sardonic grin . |
| 22 | She hoped he would approve of her smart black dress and the way she had pulled her hair back from her face and pinned it in a classical knot at the back of her head . |
| 23 | In the circumstances , he made a fair pass at the ball and got it into a reasonable spot about fifteen yards short of the edge of the green and about thirty yards from the hole . |
| 24 | Maxwell 's good judgement came in taking over the BPCC printing business and transforming it into a global communications empire . |
| 25 | The wind caught the spindrift and flung it as a jewelled and treacherous veil into the depths of the ragged sky that dizzied her when contrary winds ripped the clouds this way and that . |
| 26 | The engine was redesigned by Mickie eliminating the airscrew , reversing it in the airframe , and incorporating it into a modified model W-4 autogiro airframe . |
| 27 | They realised the strategic importance of the site and used it as a naval base and trading post . |
| 28 | The Labour administration approved the scheme wholeheartedly in 1986 , and used it at a public inquiry to try to oppose the imposition of more A-road architecture on the site approved by the previous Tory administration . |
| 29 | Brought in from Luxenbourg , it will process the slag created as a by-product of the metal smelting process and transform it into a valuable type of cement . |
| 30 | The expression on his face had grown hard and grim as he 'd scanned the paper in his hands , before angrily crunching it up into a ball and hurling it into a nearby waste-paper basket . |