Example sentences of "and [vb -s] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm just trying to keep his feet on the ground and try to make up the yardage , but Lee hits out of the bunker and thinks it has all left him . |
| 2 | Catechesis takes the experience of liturgy , and evokes it to enrich the meaning of what has been experienced , and in its own way to express praise and thanksgiving . |
| 3 | Once more , Huy had no opportunity to see out , but guessed from the number of twists and turns it made that they were taking a deliberately tortuous route . |
| 4 | Grandmother Margot 's pacemaker explodes in the crematorium oven , a minor atomic blast in a country trying to go non-nuclear ; a local urchin loses an eye in a fight at the cousin Urvill 's restored castle ( and has it replaced with an artificial one cast at the McHoans ' Gallansch glass works ) ; Rory and brother-in-law Fergus pass a nightmare night in a hill-top bothy with cannabis , whisky , a rat , two guns and one shattering revelation as props . |
| 5 | Tom turns his head in embarrassment and has it explained to him that his regular caddie has gone back to Orville Moody , and I 'm his new one , so he says , ‘ OK ’ , and walks on to the first tee . |
| 6 | And has it got better or worse ? |
| 7 | And has it got alcohol in it ? |
| 8 | Perhaps Brian has the apocryphal enormous trouser snake , and has it stuck firmly up Wilko 's arse on a regular basis : - ) ) ) ) I can see no other reason for the failure to drop him . |
| 9 | It 's quite likely she calls a taxicab every time and has it waiting round the corner out of sight . |
| 10 | ‘ And has it happened ? ’ |
| 11 | Mhm , and has it changed a lot do you think ? |
| 12 | a spark jumps out of an ordinary household fire and causes it to spread . |
| 13 | On microtine molars , the damage to the enamel again extends along the salient angles ( Fig. 3.20 A ) , but there is considerable digestion of the dentine which undermines the enamel shell and causes it to collapse inwards ( Fig. 3.20 B ) along the length of the salient angles . |
| 14 | We sailed down the reaches of the Thames and , standing in the bows , I saw the river through the eyes of Marlow in Conrad 's Heart of Darkness , as a waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth crowded with memories of men and ships it had borne to the rest of home or to the battles of the sea " . |
| 15 | Of her own experience of parenthood she writes : ‘ For all its frustrations and heartaches it has been , so far , a good career ’ . |
| 16 | When Jesus is arrested in Gethsemane , at least one of his followers is actually carrying a sword and uses it to lop off the ear of an attendant of the High Priest ; in the Fourth Gospel , the man with the sword is specifically identified as Simon Peter . |
| 17 | Like an archaeologist who digs up a tiny shard in the desert and from it extrapolates a whole civilisation , so Simon Charsley lifts an inconsequential marzipan confection and uses it to illuminate the shifting sands of Western civilisation . |
| 18 | Freud 's finding was that guilt is , starts off as an aggressive drive in the id that could go anywhere , preferably towards other people , but the superego uses some of this aggression and destructive energy arising in the id and then turns it back against the ego , and uses it to punish the ego , so the aggression , instead of going into someone else or into the outside world , is turned back against the self and to that extent is self-destructive . |
| 19 | Clive uses the Chevvy like a normal family car … he takes it to work and uses it to pick up the shopping . |
| 20 | The problem appeared because Brutus tells Cassius of Portia 's death ( and uses it to explain his bad temper towards Cassius ) . |
| 21 | Elastic materials convert mechanical work into potential energy which is recoverable ; for example an ideal spring , if deformed by a stress , stores the energy and uses it to recover its original shape after removal of the stress . |
| 22 | Amalgamemnon takes the pejorative term ‘ redundancy ’ and uses it to fight the very exclusion it designates . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | One starts off with a syndrome and uses it to develop a theory of normal processing . |
| 25 | Essentially what we will see between nineteen forty six and nineteen forty nine is a controlled explosion when the Chinese Communist Party quite systematically and deliberately harnesses this vast pool of discontented humanity and uses it to sweep away the Kuomintang regime . |
| 26 | Sensiq Foundation cares for your skin and allows it to breathe . |
| 27 | A kiai harnesses the body 's energy and allows it to escape by an aggressive exhalation of breath , either just before or during an attack . |
| 28 | The latter is imagined to be a snake-like movement that translates the chain through the tube and allows it to escape at the tube ends . |
| 29 | The traditionalism of egalitarian feminist psychology gains it a hearing in the conventional discipline , and allows it to make changes within the established framework . |
| 30 | And , perhaps to keep in line with the rest of British technology , it 's a bit of mixed bag — some of the ideas and features it contains are really good , but the implementation is n't so hot . |