Example sentences of "and [verb] it [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To include that issue in the forthcoming Student Loans Bill would make the measure hybrid and deny it any prospect of a swift passage through Parliament . |
| 2 | The same effect can be obtained by filling the pool with water and emptying it several times over a period of two or three weeks . |
| 3 | She lifted her head and banged it several times on the floor . |
| 4 | Flex your wrist up and down , and rotate it several times in both directions . |
| 5 | ‘ A night out with John Minton , ’ Lehmann recorded in his diary in October 1951 , ‘ for which he arrived with a bunch of carnations in the wildest , gayest form , having been on a jag for three nights — and continued it that night in spite of my attempts at restraint ( which were spoiled by laughing all the time ) , flinging his arms about , shouting shrilly with highly risqué asseverations at the White Tower ( at which Tennessee [ Williams ] appeared for a hallucinatory moment ) , becoming embarrassingly affectionate and enthusiastic about me , and pouring money out for champagne in the Caribbean and another unidentified night club . ’ |
| 6 | At 2 p.m. , rather than face more questions from the femme ménage , she ladled the food that had been left for her to eat into one bowl and carried it some way down the hill to a place where she knew it would be picked up by stray dogs and cats . |
| 7 | A workshop with one machinist who carefully adjusts and sets the machine up and leaves it that way at the end of the job is not necessarily going to need the heaviest equipment . |