Example sentences of "and [verb] it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Saint Marcus had to put all that lot together to make it look right and make it make sense , with hindsight , bringing all the important pieces together . |
| 2 | It makes the British attitude to planemaking — make it commercial or defence oriented and make it pay PDQ — look plain shortsighted and stupid . |
| 3 | And there would seem to be an easy , gradual continuum between using the voice to make echoes and using it to mimic echoes . |
| 4 | The idea of recovering waste heat from air or water , and using it to heat buildings cheaply , is very attractive . |
| 5 | Other ideas include mixing straw with sewage to make compost , which is being tried out at sewage works near Oxford and using it to make paper , which it was widely used for until the 40s . |
| 6 | And has it got alcohol in it ? |
| 7 | Tell us on a postcard the Latin name of the domesticated Chinese silk moth and send it marked CL /Moth to the address on page 2 by 30 June . |
| 8 | Gardeners get round these problems by using alternative means of propagation , all of them known as vegetative methods because of they involve taking some living fragment of a plant and inducing it to develop roots , so producing a new plant identical to the patent or part from which it was taken . |
| 9 | Colin bought the cordite and used it to light fires with . |
| 10 | When he closed the account , he transferred this to another account and used it to pay chambers ' expenses . |
| 11 | The developmentalists grabbed it and used it to make distance between the materially rich and poor nations so that very soon ‘ Third World ’ universally connoted poverty , overpopulation , disease , disorder , illiteracy , violent social upheavals and every imaginable human horror . |
| 12 | He had taken a sheet of writing paper from the desk and used it to make notes during the meeting . |
| 13 | She chewed hers and found it contained cod liver oil . |
| 14 | The idea is that the mind , stimulated by key words or phrases in the text , or by the context , activates a knowledge schema , and uses it to make sense of the discourse . |
| 15 | The traditionalism of egalitarian feminist psychology gains it a hearing in the conventional discipline , and allows it to make changes within the established framework . |
| 16 | If the librarian can broaden his focus of user education and let it become information user education and not simply library user education , then there is the possibility for significant change . |
| 17 | The USA released US$54,000,000 in aid to Nicaragua on Dec. 3 to assist the country 's economic stabilization and to help it to normalize relations with international financial institu-tions . |
| 18 | In South Africa domestic workers are not covered by labour laws , but SADWU has drawn up a schedule of wages and benefits it believes employers should observe . |
| 19 | She mentally steeled herself for the long evening ahead , but , as it turned out , it was n't nearly as long as she had anticipated because towards the end of the evening she heard a sharp knocking on the door , and opened it to find André standing outside , a huge bunch of flowers in his arms . |
| 20 | As it passes I turn and watch it enter Hadley Wood South tunnel . |
| 21 | We 'll be concentration on spot perms , taking one area of the head , and perming it to create body ’ . |
| 22 | She took out the electric beater and arranged it to beat cream , while Mrs Palichuk watched , fascinated . |
| 23 | It asked the Moldavian Supreme Soviet to review its August 1989 language law " in order to protect the interests of all nationalities " , and ordered it to adopt legislation ensuring equal rights for all citizens . |
| 24 | Thus , for example , it may make sense to have an integrated commuter rail service and inner-city subway , and to subsidize it to prevent people driving through congested streets ; but only a local government embracing both the suburbs and the inner city is likely to get close to the efficient policy . |
| 25 | Tony uses the Midge commuting to site each day and finds it gets waves from admirers . |
| 26 | Then , when my mother was so ill , he did try and sell it to get money for treatment for her . |
| 27 | But developing a large chemical industry needs capital , and to run it needs energy . |
| 28 | Hyundai Electronic America 's Axil Workstations Inc is bent on conquering the slippery slopes of Sun Microsystems Inc Sparc cloning , and last week announced the Axil-220 , a MicroSparc knock-off of the Sparc Classic undercutting Sun by pricing it at $3,600 in single quantities and letting it run Solaris 1.1 as well as 2. x . |
| 29 | They take some of the money they have cut from the training budget and use it to fund employment action . |
| 30 | The opportunity , rather , is this : apart from lean production and quality control , one of the big domestic advantages of the best Japanese manufacturers has been the way they garner information within their own firm and use it to take decisions . |