Example sentences of "and [verb] it [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this happens you should create a new DC based on the rejected one and change it appropriately to include the assessors ' comments . |
| 2 | Many societies launch a new-style account and advertise it heavily to pull in thousands of new investors . |
| 3 | It smelt and made it hard to breath . |
| 4 | If anything , they would have been better off contributing less prize money ( which they tried to do in 1991 but were not allowed to reduce what they had already promised ) and used it instead to go into the appearance money pool , which will still have to be funded . |
| 5 | John Wesley edited an abridged edition and used it widely to support his sermons . |
| 6 | Remove the fish and put it aside to cool . |
| 7 | He put out his hands almost against his will , took up one of the mallets and swung it testingly to get the feel of its balance , picked up a punch at random and applied its point , none too deftly because his hands were tremulous , to a half-defined fold of drapery in the nearest block of stone . |
| 8 | The human pulled at the gate and swung it enough to allow itself inside . |
| 9 | Sieve it , pressing to extract all the colour from the saffron ( or , for a good strong colour , put the lot in a food processor ) , and set it aside to cool . |
| 10 | He slips his hand inside the unzipped top of his jogger suit and withdraws it enough to let me see his gun . |
| 11 | Louise Hignett , a stylist from Keith Hall the Hairdressers salon in Arnold , Nottingham , cut off the damaged ends and texturised it throughout to encourage the curl and take some of the weight out of it . |
| 12 | An ignorant motorist is likely , therefore , to absolve the garage from responsibility and pay it further to rectify these new faults . |
| 13 | An alternative is for the distributing company to form a Newco within its group and capitalise it sufficiently to reflect the value of the Target business . |
| 14 | Listening to Iago is a double process of decoding : deciphering his utterance in the way that his dupes understand it , and decoding it again to understand how he meant it . |
| 15 | Mrs d'Urberville held each bird and felt it carefully to see that it was in good health . |
| 16 | Well my Molly has just dug a hole so deep she 's got into next door 's garden fetch the Springer Spaniel from next door and brought it home to play with . |
| 17 | Keep this off the leaves , and turn it periodically to prevent condensation . |
| 18 | If we are uncertain about its value and apply it mainly to assess its worth then it is research . |
| 19 | With heaving stomach , Kelly had gone to the kitchen , tipped the burnt remains of her cat into a plastic bag and took it downstairs to bury it in the garden . |
| 20 | She clicked it and took it away to reveal the red drop of blood that the tiny lancet 's pin prick had produced . |
| 21 | If ever I was tempted by the seductive stasis of an eidetic image , I punctured its reflecting skin with a dart and tore it away to reveal the structure of habit below . |
| 22 | Cold air like rushing water battered at his face , beating in his cheeks and making it hard to breathe . |
| 23 | Sometimes the wood is pre-oiled , but if you buy one which has n't been , rub it over a couple of times with a rag soaked in linseed oil and leave it aside to dry . |
| 24 | Sometimes the wood is pre-oiled , but if you buy one which has n't been , rub it over a couple of times with a rag soaked in linseed oil and leave it aside to dry . |
| 25 | After , find Corso di Porta Vittoria and follow it westward to reach the frontage of the Palazzo di Giustizia . |
| 26 | Public ownership of development land puts control of our scarcest resource in the hands of the community , and enables it thereby to take an overall perspective . |
| 27 | I take about four minutes to retackle the 11ft rod , re-thread the 6lb line and grease it well to make it float , and tie on a size 2 hook — a simple free-line rig that should do the job . |