Example sentences of "and [verb] it [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Parish Council have asked me to get an estimate from you for replacing the seat in its original position and concreting it in place . |
| 2 | He pulled the small plastic box free and laid it on top of the crate , fumbling in his jacket pocket for something . |
| 3 | I use a very old Gibson pickup and wired it with hardcore , heavy duty cable on a guitar built by a guy out in San Francisco called Gary Brower . |
| 4 | Alternatively , a specially approved security carrier company may collect cash and bulk it before paying-in to Cash Centres ( the Bulk Cash Deposit Scheme ) . |
| 5 | Bobby bought it yesterday and lent it to dad cos we bought we bought ourself , well Rob , dad did , I do n't look at them erm they 're too violent for me but dad bought it in Superkey only five ninety nine . |
| 6 | When he had finished reading he carefully folded it and placed it on top of the blotter . |
| 7 | Sir Haydn 's family intended to seek an Abandonment Order for the line and sell it for scrap . |
| 8 | ‘ But there was nothing wrong with it , apart from the colour , so we decided to cut it up and sell it as skirt lengths . ’ |
| 9 | HEINZ : When Henry Heinz was 16 he began to dry and grate horseradish and sell it in glass bottles — with a reckless money-back guarantee . |
| 10 | In this version , the man carried a parasol , and the most memorable sequence is when , brandishing it in front of him like a cross between a broom and a weapon , he opens and shuts it in time with the steps . |
| 11 | Within this tomb is laid the body of the Christian Emperor Charlemagne , who guided the kingdom of the Franks with distinction and ruled it with success for 47 years . |
| 12 | He 'd daubed a rock with paint and used the tell-tale splashes to correct a slight right-hand drift , and then he 'd taken a rasp to the elaborate Monte Carlo grip , reshaping the stock to approximate to the military form on which he 'd been trained and binding it with tape when it was as he wanted . |
| 13 | Well me Auntie Jean and me Mum got passed once , like they 'd been going down and scrubbing it from side at bath and everything . |
| 14 | He clipped his white tail and made Rabscuttle nibble his fur short and stain it with mud and blackberries . |
| 15 | Sometimes , musicians took the text of , for example , a Dylan song and translated it into Russian , using youth slang . |
| 16 | Oh we will unless we 've gone down the wrong hill We 'll have to practice the window cleaner one if you 're going to read it to the rest of the class , have to practice the face and read it with expression so they do n't all fall asleep oh hello , hi . |
| 17 | My survey departs from sociological tradition and takes a new approach to women 's domestic situation by looking at housework as a job and seeing it as work , analogous to any other kind of work in modern society . |
| 18 | ‘ And seeing it at night … ’ |
| 19 | In preparing the Bill and seeing it through Parliament , Jenkins had at his right hand Cunningham 's successor as Permanent Under Secretary of State , Sir Philip Allen . |
| 20 | It is easy to make him look personally responsible for setting the process in train and bringing it to fruition . |
| 21 | The Palace was told that the only way to guarantee protection of her broadcast in future was to make it part of the Official Secrets Act and bring it under Government control . |
| 22 | In line with this , the archbishop gave his willing support to direct royal taxation of the clergy in order to defray the costs of the conquest of Wales ; he was also aware that such a conquest would enable him to establish control over the wayward Welsh church and bring it into line with the rest of post-Lateran Christendom . |
| 23 | It hopes to adapt the life of the electronic control gear to the life of the lamp so that it becomes a throwaway item and bring it in line with the ‘ convenience purchase ’ of the coiled-coil lamp . |
| 24 | Edwards acquired the famous Maffeo Pinelli collection of early printed books from Venice and sold it at auction in 1789 and 1790 . |
| 25 | Okay , we could have measured that and given it as part of a spec listing , but because it really did n't feel any different ( probably because its fingerboard width , radius and frets echoed most of the competition ) that fact was rendered almost inconsequential . |
| 26 | When Oldham Magistrates granted summonses against Brady and Hindley for the murder of the child following a private application , the Director , having already decided that in all the circumstances it would not be in the public interest to institute proceedings against them , used his statutory powers under Section 6 of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 to take over the conduct of the case and to discontinue it under Section 23 . |
| 27 | The courier took an envelope from his inside pocket and passed it to Tuck , and also offered him paper and a pen , so that the receipt could be acknowledged . |
| 28 | Last week two nurses were sacked for dressing a pig 's head as a patient and parading it in front of acutely disturbed women . |
| 29 | She had pulled a pretty knitted skull-cap over her head and pinned it in place with metal grips . |
| 30 | Coal was labour-intensive and the need to move it around the station and load it into engine tenders required large numbers of labourers . |