Example sentences of "it and [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | She could imagine that Tom would go out and leave his door open if he was working about the place but not if he had quitted it , and in winter it seemed foolhardy to say the least to leave it and let the cold air invade the house . |
2 | Once the question for the court becomes one of making its own assessment of the evidence , making findings of fact on all the relevant evidence placed before it and drawing the appropriate legal conclusion , and is no longer a question of simply reflecting government policy , letters from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office become merely part of the evidence in the case . |
3 | In the draft party statutes , one rule specifically states that once the Lithuanian party has declared itself independent , members will have until the 28th Soviet Party Congress next October to decide whether to stay with the Lithuanian party , or leave it and join the Soviet party . |
4 | It achieved fame in 1860 , when a nova appeared in it and reached the seventh magnitude , altering the whole aspect of the cluster for a few nights . |
5 | so you 'll have to fast forward it and suffer the last hour |
6 | No , nobody 's ever asked me , but I did say yes , but only because I want to believe it , I do n't care if the rest of you do n't , but I think its very important that you , you 've got the body that your born with and I think its very important just to go on with it and make the best of it . |
7 | ‘ This ban is a pain but I just have to get on with it and make the most of the top games I am allowed to play between now and the Five Nations ' . ’ |
8 | The ICA saw ‘ no great merit ’ in the suggestion ; but Touche Ross supported it and made the further recommendation that each firm appoint a finance partner . |
9 | ‘ A policeman was standing beside it and took the full force of the blast . |
10 | In " A " Ltd v " B " Ltd [ 1992 ] CLJ p263 H H Judge Davies QC , dealing with Official Referee 's Business , declined to follow Fryer 's case , purporting to distinguish it and holding the relevant passages of the Court of Appeal 's judgments to have been obiter dicta . |
11 | But as soon as the next downpour came the crust was soaked , vile gas bubbles would belch forth from it and infect the surrounding air . |
12 | The island no longer gave men without much capital the economic opportunity sometimes to be found on a frontier , where land can be acquired cheaply by anyone prepared to make the great effort needed to clear it and plant the first crops . |
13 | She tilted it and drank the sweet , thin fluid . |
14 | Cross it and follow the faint footpath to the wall ( 699609 ) . |
15 | The logical re-use of existing services has led to the retention of the overly utilitarian postwar outshot when it would have been better to demolish it and to restore the four-square appearance of the pre-war building . |
16 | They all said they would not be involved again , though they would support it and wished the new committee luck . |
17 | Its teaching supplies the data which he must gather and interpret scientifically by tracing the general principles running through it and underlying the particular propositions it contains . |
18 | And have you ever put a tree a Christmas tree in a tub and packed earth round it and got the bloody thing to stand up straight ? |
19 | ‘ With the presidency of the European Community coming up , we believe Britain has a unique opportunity to renegotiate it and strip the corporatist elements out . |
20 | You set the shovel on top of the coal that 's already there and tilt it and slide the other coal onto it . |
21 | The strip of ice was not broad enough to skate on but you could run over the crackling , frosty grass and leap onto it and slide the best part of thirty yards . |
22 | A trust has now been able to acquire it and take the first steps towards long-term restoration . |
23 | You either surrender it and take the whole cash , or keep it running , you ca n't take some of the money . |
24 | First , he must regain support abroad , stop the economy from re-entering the tailspin in which he found it and reconquer the two-thirds of the country lost to an undeclared civil war , without driving new recruits into the arms of the guerrillas . |
25 | Critics of the DAS claimed that his first task should be to root out the corruption within it and halt the systematic abuses of human rights by its police officers . |
26 | I would have thought myself that all it needed was going boomph in and turn it and get the other one in . |
27 | Well you might as well do it and press the two together . |
28 | You peer into it and glimpse the shiny well-oiled pieces , the bright machine-finished gleaming metal ; it 's clean and safe and operates smoothly . |
29 | Between 1532 and 1534 , the passing of each individual piece of legislation was closely followed by the appearance of official government propaganda justifying it and anticipating the next move , a fact that suggests that a coherent policy was unfolding by this stage . |
30 | ‘ He reminded me about it in the dressing room before the game , and if it 's said you 're not playing with enough desire you 've just got to swallow it and do the best you can . |