Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its presence will indicate hostility towards religion and make it very difficult for people to take religion seriously . |
| 2 | The familiar modern terminology was already in use : " bull " already described a dealer who bought stock and sold it ahead of having to pay for it , while " bear " applied to those who contracted to sell stock they had yet to obtain . |
| 3 | Please , therefore , complete the enclosed assessment card and return it immediately in the envelope provided . |
| 4 | Erm ha having gone through that you moved on er and gave out your business card fi first and then the buyer 's guide erm do n't know whether you 're happy doing it that way or whether it 's better round the other way , I I , you , you tend to think if you give somebody the buyer 's guide first when they start to look at it you give them your business card and take it away , perhaps if you do it the other way round they might s start reading the buyer 's guide |
| 5 | The other Rex put his hands to the long table-top , tore it from its legs and cast it away into the darkness . |
| 6 | He leans forward and picks up one of his legs and pulls it right out from his trousers . |
| 7 | He then took the rope through her front and back legs and tied it firmly to the back bumper of the Mercedes , which Angel had backed into the yard . |
| 8 | There are women who live with their husbands and they hate their husbands and do it once a month so their Amex cards do n't get cancelled . |
| 9 | The curtains billowed madly as the wind caught them and Donna dashed across to the light switch and slapped it hard , plunging the room into darkness . |
| 10 | But she put it to her eyes and brought it away streaked black and green . |
| 11 | And it is possible to build a club and run it profitably without building huge ancillary leisure developments . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Eight acres is all the council needs — we 'd build the club and manage it both as pay and play and as a private club . |
| 13 | In principle parsons had the advantage , but in practice rectories with cure of souls tended to be the poorer ones , for many of the best were impropriate to their monastic patrons , which in almost every case had ordained a vicarage and endowed it adequately — rarely with less than £5 a year , more commonly £6 — while rectory incomes tended to vary widely . |
| 14 | Robyn climbed into the jeep , picked up her handbag from the passenger seat and tipped it upside-down , emptying out the disgraceful collection of junk into her lap . |
| 15 | The whole can be made available in terms of ‘ live viewing ’ — the audience seeing the programme when it is transmitted — or ‘ consolidated viewing ’ , which adds in the people who record the programme and view it later on their VCR . |
| 16 | It 's makers , Smithkline Beecham told them the 2 litre bottle was from a faulty batch and to empty it carefully as it could explode . |
| 17 | The pilot stayed with his aircraft and steered it away from the school and bravely died with it to save others . |
| 18 | Culley stretched the man 's neck and cuffed it again . |
| 19 | Put it round your neck and wear it always , and when you come home , you can give it me back on our wedding day . " |
| 20 | Grant unslung the shotgun from around his neck and gripped it firmly across his chest . |
| 21 | He was complaining of an aching neck and rubbing it gingerly . |
| 22 | and I went in shop I said a sack of dog food I said German Shepherd and got it home and I thought this looks different , it were ginormous chunk things in it and he were going ptew , ptew and they were all over garden |
| 23 | Meredith felt a quiver of fear and buried it fast . |
| 24 | Others have the courage to tackle their fears , perhaps remembering the phrase ‘ Feel the fear and do it anyway ’ . |
| 25 | I am creating the perfect relationship inspired by the statement ‘ feel the fear and do it anyway . ’ |
| 26 | He returned to find the Cross of St George still flapping from the walls of Famagusta and nothing obviously changed except the weather , which would , of course , put out the slow-matches and the fire-missiles and make it increasingly unlikely that the tower of Famagusta was going to prove combustible . |
| 27 | Comedian : able to laugh at the tension and blow it away . |
| 28 | The throttling sound he made , accompanied by a frenzied rolling of the eyes , expelled the cigarette from his mouth and sent it halfway down the stairs . |
| 29 | He withdrew a wet forefinger from his mouth and replaced it damply on a line of print . |
| 30 | 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 . |