Example sentences of "and [verb] it too " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Meandering roads , cul-de-sacs and dead ends are of course popular with traffic engineers but nearly always they simply increase our car dependence , lengthen walking distances and make it too difficult for buses to circulate . |
| 3 | Maybe they 're allowing men to put this burden on them and accepting it too readily . |
| 4 | As the enclosure movement gained impetus towards the end of the eighteenth century , many of the poor could not afford the fences necessary to confirm their claim to the land , and therefore sold it to the wealthy ; those who could were often unable to raise a living on the poor land they acquired , and sold it too ; those who were squatters had no right to land at all and none to sell . |
| 5 | As a parody of fringe theatre at its worst , all this is quite funny , but Harwood is trying to have his cake and eat it too . |
| 6 | They do n't imagine they can have their cake and eat it too . |
| 7 | That way he could have his cake and eat it too . |
| 8 | In those industries where continuous product innovation is a criterion for survival and success , organizations that have adopted the matrix seem to fare well … benefits of standardisation are coupled with the capacity to respond to change — a way to have your cake and eat it too ’ . |
| 9 | The ego knows that if it has to make choices in the world of actuality it can not keep its cake and eat it too ; the id does not . |
| 10 | That struck Edward as suspect , as if they wanted to have their cake and eat it too . |
| 11 | He would say he had met a friend at the wine bar and gone on somewhere and found it too late to get back . |
| 12 | Discern a Failing and forgive it too : |
| 13 | MOYRA FRASER , Cookery Editor , introduces Slim Plan — the tried and tested New Year diet to help you lose weight and enjoy it too ! |
| 14 | Not only do they believe their own PR , they generally eat and wear it too . |
| 15 | Whereas in the classic Italian historical novel , Manzoni 's The Betrothed ( 1827 ) , much admired by Eco , the omniscience of the author consists in his ability to probe at will into the psychology of his characters and , at the same time , to link this to broad historical movements and even some sense of a providential ‘ plot ’ in history , in Eco it is closer to the power of the master craftsman who can make what he will with the materials to hand , and unmake it too . |
| 16 | ‘ What a coy little polyp you are , to be sure , ’ said the doctor , but he eventually lassoed and dispatched it too . |
| 17 | This enigma was hers to unravel , and sharing it too soon , perhaps at all , might make the solving impossible . |
| 18 | If a man engages skilled advisors to act for him and they mistake the time limit and present it too late he is out . |
| 19 | Probably Serious , who not only stars in the film , but directed , wrote , produced and edited it too , would not mind the description being applied to himself . |
| 20 | Probably Yahoo Serious , who not only stars in the film , but directed , wrote , produced and edited it too , would not mind the description being applied to himself . |
| 21 | If we now return to F , R and find it too complex ( which it is ) , our experience with the slice moves suggests we consider F 2 , R 2 . |
| 22 | ‘ You who so often preach about the catholicity of the Anglican Church , and believe it too . ’ |
| 23 | Patriotism ( see 1966 nostalgia and taking it too seriously ) . |
| 24 | ‘ And I should warn you , Antoinette , that Miss Russell understands our language perfectly — and speaks it too . ’ |
| 25 | He had , in the classic language of such things , had his cake and eaten it too . |
| 26 | With Mollie Salisbury 's help , Charles designed his entire garden , and furthermore , with the assistance of just one gardener , he dug it , manured it and planted it too . |
| 27 | Women wanted their cake and to eat it too — they were getting more like men every day ! |
| 28 | While Mr Stych was canoeing back down a tributary of the Mackenzie– already dangerous with chunks of ice , to an appointment with a helicopter , Mr Frizzell was trying on his last year 's brocade waistcoat and finding it too small ; Mr MacDonald , Ian 's father , was winding up a trying compensation case for his insurance company at Vermilion ; and Mr MacDonald ( oil ) was trying to explain to his superiors in Sarnia , Ontario , why he must be back in a place like Tollemarche by the middle of December . |
| 29 | along came the people and buyed it too |
| 30 | can you grim and bear it too ? |