Example sentences of "and [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He takes my hand and squeezes it hard . |
| 2 | Kirov stooped over his crumpled form , retrieving the photograph from between his fingers and tucking it safely into his inside pocket . |
| 3 | If he wishes to make an adjustment , would not it be more sensible to detach their role from advocacy of method and confine it solely to inspection ? |
| 4 | You ca n't up and change it just like that . ’ |
| 5 | Yeah , but I could n't be bothered to go all the way back there and change it again ! |
| 6 | Go and change it then |
| 7 | If this happens you should create a new DC based on the rejected one and change it appropriately to include the assessors ' comments . |
| 8 | My doom I speak and change it never : |
| 9 | I had another cup and watched her take the rollers out of her hair and comb it carefully into a high , curly pompadour . |
| 10 | The Eurythmics song finishes and you put a foot on the ghetto-blaster 's power cable and drag it smartly across the bathroom tiles , pulling the lead from the back of the machine . |
| 11 | Originally , ICI said that it would license a Rhône-Poulenc SAR technology and develop it further , but the new process has been developed in conjunction with Air Liquide . |
| 12 | So I think we 've developed in that direction that I can go ahead as soon as I 've got some dates and book it properly with Mr . |
| 13 | ‘ What angers me is that they were on a government controlled game reserve and planned it carefully . |
| 14 | It could turn out to be one of the stickiest issues facing the parties , but for once , everyone is having their cake and eating it too . |
| 15 | She seized a passing shirt and propelled it vainly towards the bird . |
| 16 | ‘ We 're vacuuming up the debris on the land and mulching it again , ’ Hawtree explains . |
| 17 | She regarded gossip as a mortal sin , and encouraging it almost as bad . |
| 18 | Having bought the best you can afford and laid it properly , you should keep it clean . |
| 19 | Luke lifted his hand and laid it softly against her cheek . |
| 20 | Alexei watched as Artai rolled the parchment and laid it aside . |
| 21 | He lifted the edge of the hood , and laid it gently over the shattered head , hiding the face . |
| 22 | Cadfael picked up the psaltery with due respect , and laid it safely aside on the little prayer-desk . |
| 23 | In contrast with One 0ver The Eight in which he constantly said his ‘ gloo — oo-oo-m ’ words or would take a word like ‘ now ’ and repeat it excessively , he behaved with total seriousness in this ; a different character entirely . |
| 24 | The poetic function is also apparent at an early stage : when young children latch on to a phrase and repeat it endlessly , without conveying any information . |
| 25 | In this way , the combination of light-plus-colour gives the animal a flat , undifferentiated appearance and renders it much less conspicuous to predatory eyes . |
| 26 | ‘ And … and she grabbed the rope round the mule 's neck and … and led it away to safety , leaving her husband lying in the road . |
| 27 | Cromwell took his army across St. George 's Channel and led it forward ruthlessly and successfully , and by 1650 it was clear that the English government was going to be able to reconquer the island . |
| 28 | She whisked Nicandra 's large linen napkin off her knees and tied it round her waist , then joined her own to it and knotted it securely to the back of Nicandra 's chair . |
| 29 | He felt a trickle of blood touch his lip and wiped it away . |
| 30 | However carefully he spoke , he still released a little dribble from the stiff site of his mouth and wiped it away with a routine gesture of his left hand . |