Example sentences of "of [noun] and [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I snatched my miniature of whisky and lifted it towards the raised glasses at home , before stepping outside to watch those stars to the left of Polaris which would be blinking over Manchester . |
| 2 | The gallery has its lighter side to arouse the interests of children — the ‘ smellerama ’ to test their sense of smell and relate it to certain types of food , the ‘ food pyramid ’ to test their ability to build a healthy diet , and an ‘ aerobicycle ’ which will demonstrate the amount of exertion required to burn off a given number of calories . |
| 3 | Adding up everyone 's several sources of income and grouping it into a household income , related to where people live and the local rate , is a major exercise that our present income tax system is incapable of doing . |
| 4 | It makes meaningful an analysis of the level ( or levels ) of ideology and relates it in a non-reductive way to the economic base — the mode of production . |
| 5 | She extracted the required amount of money and handed it to the girl . |
| 6 | So , I pull handfuls of weed and leave it near the water 's edge , giving at least some of the creatures the chance to nip back into the water again . |
| 7 | Juliette picked up the tray of crockery and carried it to the dishwasher . |
| 8 | ‘ We take the view it is better to get a partly complete story with a whisper of opportunity and get it to one or two key companies quickly so they can get out there , rather than sitting back and waiting for a nicely tailored account of what is going on which , by the time we get it to them , will be history rather than opportunity , ’ he explains . |
| 9 | We can only pass an Act of Parliament and give it to them with a slap on the back and a ‘ best of British luck ’ : ‘ Here 's your constitution , ’ we say , ‘ now do what you like with it ; you can because you are now independent . ’ |
| 10 | Then it inclined its head and struggled fiercely with arms pointing earthwards , and Roland caught glints of silver and reconstituted it as a person in a wheel-chair , possibly in difficulty . |
| 11 | Out by the pool she found a girl who greeted her warmly and , delving into the recesses of her knapsack , brought out a box of nougat and gave it to her . |
| 12 | Once , he even put a live spider on a piece of tape and forced it into the terrified 11-year-old 's mouth . |
| 13 | Still yawning , he made himself a cup of tea and took it to bed . |
| 14 | Pat poured the doctor out a cup of tea and placed it on the bedside table . |
| 15 | Celia arrived with a tray of tea and placed it on the table . |
| 16 | I finished my list of demands and took it to the Branch Office , where I received something of a hero 's welcome . |
| 17 | Eliot 's solution was to attempt to revive what anthropology had revealed to him as the very oldest form of ritual and express it through the phenomena of stylized contemporary life , uniting the savage and the city . |
| 18 | Open the length of insulation and wrap it around the pipe , pressing it into contact with the tank . |
| 19 | After watching Red class tell the story of wool and incorporate it into the morning school assembly , she commented ‘ they did very well and were absolutely delightful . ’ |
| 20 | As an extra reminder , you could write a special message on a pretty piece of card and fix it to the back of the picture , noting both the date and the event . |
| 21 | First , there is the problem of transmitting the huge volumes of data and managing it on its way through a network to users . |
| 22 | As the system is updated , nothing is lost for storage is so cheap that it is always more cost effective to slap a primitive TEI type header on each block of data and transfer it to the next store rather than sort out what is likely to be needed from what is not . |
| 23 | The priest took the basin of blood and spattered it against the altar . |
| 24 | The PROFITBOSS takes the paper out of management and gives it to the administrators . |
| 25 | The reform of both property and divorce law modernised and rationalised the institution of marriage and brought it into line with new kinds of family wealth and relationships . |
| 26 | Even in the best hotels they tended to view whisky as a kind of pastis and served it for drinking in the French way . |
| 27 | When the meat had shrivelled and curled they waved the sticks in the cold air for a minute , unskewered it , blew off the coating of ash and tossed it from hand to hand until it was cool enough to eat . |
| 28 | He then went to the cool cabinet at the rear of the shop , took out a can of lager and put it in his pocket . |
| 29 | She ladled the flat and listless thing on to a piece of toast and put it before her guest . |
| 30 | I spread a little of the peculiar fat on a piece of bread and put it into my mouth . |