Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] it [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bourdieu 's first task is to rescue taste as preference from essentialist doctrines of aesthetics , and thereby free it as a potential tool for the contingent historical analysis of society . |
| 2 | In them he is no longer fighting against his instinctive understanding of the region , traditions and spirit of his home country , but embracing it as a source of inspiration , and eventually using it as a touchstone against which the characters and even life itself are to be judged . |
| 3 | There is no reason why this track should be any worse than the " effort " track except that I have chosen to block off the easy track and so turn it into a dead end . |
| 4 | He moved from St James 's Hall to a large , sedate house in Lime Grove , and swiftly converted it into a combination of a commercial office , a factory and a school of physical culture . |
| 5 | Temple was sincere in his desire to preserve native society from too sudden change : he enjoyed its idiosyncrasies , respected its vitality , and greatly loved it as an unkempt garden in which the product of a more ordered civilization might find repose . |
| 6 | Installation involved hoisting the reactor by crane and gently lowering it into a prefabricated steel structure . |
| 7 | erm it may be erm a a good idea to use it as a erm as a first scheme perhaps to erm to try and er car park and if you look at that at the beginning and just keep it on a on a rolling programme then all that does n't get so enormous er it does n't get such a a large task so maybe if er , but it does need coordinating perhaps we should think about it . |
| 8 | Erm but if this trend continues , I can see them shooting down the activities side of this this place and just using it as an advice centre . |
| 9 | And just treat it as a |
| 10 | Well that 's , what I do is I use that metal that you can hang it with and just hang it onto a little hook so it 's up and over and out of the way . |
| 11 | After Brundle 's Jaguar took off like a scalded cat , it was Mass who hunted it down , and soon engaged it in a lurid battle . |
| 12 | Topaz found it very difficult to obey the command for constant disdain , and soon shed it for a charm which worked like magic . |
| 13 | Even Marguerite 's tight shoulders relaxed and , as he slowed the car and finally brought it to a halt before the house , Alain made a sound of deep satisfaction . |
| 14 | Of course , the terrible irony of this is shown later , when Eddie betrays his cousins and the truth of his own words is applied as he ruins his life and finally loses it as a result of being disloyal . |
| 15 | We tried tooth and nail and finally impaled it on a thorn tree , tugging at it until the branch flew off and hurtled us into a ditch . |
| 16 | This involved grating soap , microwaving it and finally putting it through a food processor . |
| 17 | In the end , he did n't — he started bouncing , so he got one hard wallop and promptly jumped it from a standstill . |
| 18 | So I think th th that the one thing which is good I think , is a possibility of re-opening it up , and possibly using it to a fuller extent , which might actually give it er , er , new lease of life . |
| 19 | Pennethorne incorporated this building , which had only been completed in 1832 , into his scheme by adding another storey and possibly linking it by an arch to the Foreign Office . |
| 20 | Phoebe loathed housekeeping so profoundly that she felt guilty about it and always did it with a disciplined and joyless rigour , expecting everyone else to do so too . |
| 21 | In the second century B.C. the Romans had gained control of the Sacred island of Delos in the Cyclades and later established it as a commercial trading post in the Mediterranean . |
| 22 | It was a bird that would appeal to popular sentiment ; indeed , Gould advocated its adoption as Australia 's national bird , and later used it as a motif on the covers of his Birds of Australia series , showing the male lyre-bird with the beautiful lyre-shaped plumes of its tail raised in courtship . |
| 23 | He gave her an estate at Alva as a dowry and probably accompanied it with a large sum of money . |
| 24 | In fact Pachycephalosaurus had a 10-inch thick skull , and probably used it as a battering ram in ritual contests . |
| 25 | The service has proved willing to invest in Skymaster , even though the ‘ returns ’ are low at the moment , and clearly sees it as a thing of the future . |
| 26 | They ‘ hot-wired ’ a prison van and repeatedly rammed it into a security gate . |
| 27 | However , the Cultural Revolution was also presented as an attempt by the party to gain control of the state bureaucracy and even replace it as an organ of implementation . |
| 28 | If Sartre began by attempting to unite man with history , in the notes at the very end of the manuscript he poses once more the fundamental ontological question , and immediately follows it with a decidedly unequivocal answer : |
| 29 | Polly gulped , and immediately disguised it with a cough . |
| 30 | Her argument was that it had offered the women of rock ‘ much worship with little esteem … choosing their image from among the already available fantasies and maybe undercutting it with a little irony . ’ |