Example sentences of "[verb] it [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I phoned it up and says the fella had been out , you know , they change , update it |
| 2 | Lee was fiddling with the bag , opening it again and knocking grain caught in the folds of the sack on to the floor . |
| 3 | ‘ She covers it up and tells the little girl it 's full of fairies and pretty make-believe so she must n't be scared , and she tells the boy it 's really there , dead , under the shawl . ’ |
| 4 | Plug it in and find out shall I ? |
| 5 | If it 's not written down I do n't know when they 've had or what they 've had , you 'll have to write it down and put a date on it . |
| 6 | It 's not like that it 's just that I think it 'll help you to write it down and to think about it and to talk , talk to Kelly about it . |
| 7 | After the next fifty yards I drew it out and took a look at the bad news . |
| 8 | Dexter drew it out and registered David Parkin 's name written on the front in ballpoint pen with the words ‘ PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL . |
| 9 | Marco drew it out and inspected it . |
| 10 | While these southern Americans believed their region unified by its homogeneity , what actually drew it together and made it conscious to itself was its deep and ( according to white Southern belief ) ineradicable , division — into white and black . |
| 11 | She bunched it up and placed it on her thighs . |
| 12 | Anyone acting out of character worried her in this way , until she had had a silent time alone , to work it out and grow used to the change . |
| 13 | I 've thought guaran two machines you 're guaranteed for four years then , cos they did n't write the serial number down , so if I got two machines and it goes faulty I just send it back and say this machine 's faulty , they do n't know how many I 've got |
| 14 | No they would buy it somewhere and sell it at a profit you see . |
| 15 | Rough roads , however , of the sort council repair crews seem so keen to create , ruffle it slightly and cause it to slap its tyres on the road in protest . |
| 16 | I was gon na screw it up and throw it at you . |
| 17 | The loop will now be round the person 's body and all you have to do is to pull it down and ask the volunteer to step out of it . |
| 18 | He paced it back and says to me , ‘ Where is the ball ? ’ |
| 19 | Water used to come over the top , and swelled it up and bust em ! |
| 20 | I snatched it up and flung it round me , sitting there shaking . |
| 21 | He snatched it up and tore the bronze ring from its wrist . |
| 22 | She snatched it up and thrust it into her bag , her glance flicking up to yet another magnificent view . |
| 23 | Ed snatched it up and tried vainly to stick it back on . |
| 24 | For a moment that bordered on eternity , Fran stared at the throbbing centre of her hand , then snatched it away and scrambled from the car , uncaring what interpretation he put on her haste . |
| 25 | Aelis snatched it back and blew the ashes from it for him , blinking back tears . |
| 26 | Turning a violent red , he snatched it back and rubbed it clumsily against his trouser leg . |
| 27 | She held the letter over the basket , ready to consign it to being thrown away , and then at the last minute snatched it back and put in in her desk . |
| 28 | Forget it now and drink yer brandy . |
| 29 | But Karen lapped it up and came back for more . |
| 30 | Now she let it down and tied it at the nape of her neck with a scarf . |