Example sentences of "and [verb] it [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had another cup and watched her take the rollers out of her hair and comb it carefully into a high , curly pompadour . |
| 2 | The Eurythmics song finishes and you put a foot on the ghetto-blaster 's power cable and drag it smartly across the bathroom tiles , pulling the lead from the back of the machine . |
| 3 | She seized a passing shirt and propelled it vainly towards the bird . |
| 4 | He lifted the edge of the hood , and laid it gently over the shattered head , hiding the face . |
| 5 | She whisked Nicandra 's large linen napkin off her knees and tied it round her waist , then joined her own to it and knotted it securely to the back of Nicandra 's chair . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Presently she slid her hand away and wiped it furtively on the upholstery of the seat beside her . |
| 8 | When they reached the prison , at Riom , and an official tried to argue that they had no authority to remove the canisters , Jacques Allier took out a pistol and levelled it wordlessly at the bureaucratic face . |
| 9 | ‘ A distinction must be maintained between the use of a ‘ one-off intervention ’ which is appropriate in the particular circumstances , and using it repeatedly as a regular feature of a regime , ’ reads the document . |
| 10 | Er simply in terms of the impact , there is a lot more work to be done on that and we would do that in t in developing the scheme and bringing it forward to the next stage , to mitigate the adverse effects er that come about as a result of er construction of new roads . |
| 11 | They had n't heard the scratching sounds since Daak had straightened out the protesting shuttle and lowered it serenely towards the whorled ridges that made up the top of the space station . |
| 12 | The resource person is able to suggest a more precise and expressive use of vocabulary and structure to help him to make his speech more idiomatic and bring it closer to the native speaker 's use of the language . |
| 13 | If the fish is whole , and the fishmonger has done the decent thing — removed the guts and gills , which would taint it during cooking — all you need do is immerse the beast in any container large enough to hold it ( ideally a fish kettle ) , cover it with cold water and bring it gently to the boil . |
| 14 | She was careful not to disturb the make-up she had applied secretly before retiring , and checked it quickly in a polished bronze mirror that lay next to the bowl , the deep yellow glow from the oil lamp she had left burning providing her with just enough light to see that none had smudged . |
| 15 | This encourages logging companies to send over plain logs , but it would be more profitable if the countries themselves designed and built furniture and fitments and sold it direct to the West . |
| 16 | The protector had taken the Great Seal , returned by the queen-dowager that very morning , and given it again into the chancellor 's care . |
| 17 | I then took all the cabinets and gave them deep-dish handles , plus I used the old logo from the early '50s and expanded it length-wise on a computer , to see how it looked . |
| 18 | If one accepts that comparable hypotheses may explain differential phenomenology ( such as the different experiences of motion-perception previously described ) , then his work shows that it is in principle possible for a creature incapable of experiencing distinct shapes to be aware of motion and to ascribe it correctly to an individual object . |
| 19 | Markby , taking off his overcoat and sticking it haphazardly over a peg , grunted . |
| 20 | Her partner lit the candle , and inserted it deep into the Arab girl 's vagina . |
| 21 | She was trembling as she bent down and inserted it carefully into the left-hand drawer of the desk . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Allen whistled , picked up a stone and flung it high into the trees . |
| 24 | She turned and looked down at the handbag , clutched tightly in her hand , and flung it far across the room . |
| 25 | Rex watched in horror as the black claw tore Bill 's left arm from its socket and flung it far up the street . |
| 26 | It grabbed a chair , crunched the metal — like paper , and flung it aside with a snarl . |
| 27 | And around this same period , an Englishman reading in the public library at Bagnères came upon an account of the battle of Toulouse in the Napoleonic wars which he thought too favourable to the French , and annotated it accordingly in the interests of accuracy . |
| 28 | He had turned to look at her , slipping off his coat as he did so and tossing it carelessly over the back of one of the armchairs . |
| 29 | He threw the deadly , humming weapon into the air and caught it deftly by the shaft . |
| 30 | He applied the flannel repeatedly , then wound it around her tender joint and fastened it again with the safety-pin . |