Example sentences of "and [verb] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You are what you eat ’ is a favourite maxim , and eating the right things is important in order to be healthy at every stage of life . |
| 2 | What you are about to suggest , of course , is that we wait for the Kilcharran to come along and hoist the damn thing to the surface . ’ |
| 3 | One gripes and holds off and bangs the pillows and thinks the real thing is to come , and then one starts to lose the thread . |
| 4 | They should bring along a crane and pick the whole thing up with me in it and call it Frozen Communications and put it in some art gallery . |
| 5 | Weeks of it because the after the put in all his markings the admiralty came and checked the whole thing then . |
| 6 | I thought that I would go in and explain the whole thing to him and explain that there was no point in creating trouble unnecessarily . |
| 7 | Editors often cut a vital sentence , too , and made the whole thing unbalanced . |
| 8 | Many ‘ systemised ’ tanks combine all three ( as do external filters if you choose to load them that way ) but now in the BioLife unit Hagen have put together what is virtually the filter unit from a small systemised tank , complete with self-contained heaterstat , added the sort of wet-and-dry trickle filtration usually only available in under the tank units , and made the whole thing suitable for a three foot tank . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | Jagged blue lightning stabbed through one of the ragged gaps and found the only thing in the office block that was moving . |
| 11 | After a couple of halfhearted bucks he settled and found the whole thing rather boring . |
| 12 | Well in really warm weather a T-shirt and shorts may be enough but as it gets colder so you need to add layers of sweaters , trousers and top the whole thing up with a wind and waterproof spray suit but all that can make you a little clumsy , so the answer for most British sailors is a wetsuit like the ones that you and Suzanne are wearing . |
| 13 | It means we can get the muscle to grow over the top and bury that underneath and let the whole thing get back to normal . |
| 14 | I , like the honourable member , happen to believe the point he 's made is right , that this should be a high priority , the money is there for local government to do it , I 've explicitly recognised the needs of the disabled in my settlement for next year by increasing it substantially and I hope local government will respond and do the decent thing . |
| 15 | So Deborah had to be content to ride on a tree branch every Saturday morning on her way to Pack Meeting but she did long to be on the back of a real pony again and to help in the stables as she used to do , and learn how a pony should be shoed , cared for and fed , and to know and do the other things required to pass the Pony Rider test . |
| 16 | ‘ We can do it if the leadership of this nation will just stand up and do the right thing . ’ |
| 17 | He uses the metaphor of the commercial viability of two watchmakers , one of whom puts watches together out of finished sub-assemblies which can not fall apart , and another who assembles each watch from its basic parts and risks the whole thing falling to pieces if dropped . |
| 18 | She 'd just walked in to the nearest doorway and spilled the whole thing to a complete stranger . |
| 19 | And the trouble is it can turn septic again , and put the whole thing sky high again . |
| 20 | There was an added difficulty that the three of then , would break into convulsions of laughter , verging on hysterics , with Hopper somewhere off camera rolling around in the bushes and , according to Nicholson , ‘ totally freaked out ’ while Jack was forcing himself to be relatively straight , do his serious acting and hold the whole thing together : ‘ This used to be a helluva good country … ’ |
| 21 | And he said nothing and she did nothing until Geoffroy , the tough son , took exception to his brother Fromont taking refuge in a monastery , and when he would n't come out , he piled up brushwood and burned the whole thing down , monks and Fromont and all . |
| 22 | and done the brief things he could do |
| 23 | The idea is to take all the valuable circuitry and electronics from the separate wind speed , water speed , depth sounder , and other instruments , from the Decca , radar , satnav and GPS systems , from the VHF — and perhaps the cellphone and the SSB as well — and integrate the whole thing in one box . |
| 24 | That er exploded the detonators there and exploded the whole thing . |
| 25 | Must like U2 and appreciate the good things in life — poetry , literature , and the pub . |
| 26 | So she kept her doubts to herself , merely remarking that everyone knew what Frenchmen were like and turning the whole thing into a rather laboured joke in which Iris eventually joined . |
| 27 | I 'm not turn it off and re-wind the fucking thing . |
| 28 | The problem is , quite literally , how to bridge the gap and tie the whole thing together . |
| 29 | If we find out who killed the Daine projection , I figure we can bring about some sort of dramatic crisis and finish the whole thing off . |
| 30 | ooh they came and fetched the old thing |