Example sentences of "and take it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bill gives protection with one hand and takes it away with the other . |
| 2 | ‘ Now , I want you both to just relax and take it easy , ’ she told them with a warm smile . |
| 3 | I do n't care I do n't want your poxy yorky , I 've got a bike up there I can go and take it then |
| 4 | Despite his frequent boasts about the progress made under his rule , Ceauşescu was turning Romania into a steadily ‘ under-developing nation ’ ( to use Alec Douglas-Home 's felicitous phrase ) and taking it backwards . |
| 5 | It was a warm , spring morning and I was lying in the garden , reflecting on life in general and taking it easy , when I heard this music coming from the top-floor flat where the windows were all open — and there was somebody singing . |
| 6 | He 's in The Wine Cellar Off-Licence , demanding cider on credit , and taking it anyway when he 's refused . |
| 7 | He recalled once buying a foal and taking it home on the bus ! |
| 8 | For underneath the eyes , use a soft eye pencil — I use dark brown — starting thinly at the centre of the eye and taking it gradually thicker to the outer corner . |
| 9 | Patriotism ( see 1966 nostalgia and taking it too seriously ) . |
| 10 | His daughter Beattie was born in the Bulls Head , and took it over 44 years ago . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | At the precinct a stolid desk sergeant ran all Tabitha 's ID through a reader and took it away . |
| 13 | ‘ Then the police came and took it away , ’ said Anna , ‘ and we all went to hospital . ’ |
| 14 | She clicked it and took it away to reveal the red drop of blood that the tiny lancet 's pin prick had produced . |
| 15 | ‘ They came over three hours ago and took it away . ’ |
| 16 | She whisked the tray off the table and took it away . |
| 17 | ‘ Or somebody found it and took it away . ’ |
| 18 | He took a piece of tracing paper over the old one though and Germanicised it and took it away from what we call Old English . |
| 19 | Till he smiled and took it straightway from me . |
| 20 | ‘ Seems that everyone appreciated the joke and took it exactly as we intended them to , even your friend Lewis in the end . ’ |
| 21 | In part , it was part of a wider decline in the authority of national institutions from the monarchy to the police ; satire and culture criticism reflected the process and took it further . |
| 22 | So she paid for it on the spot and took it home . |
| 23 | Much as she would have liked to stay , Penny had to hurry home with her budgie , but she learned later that Brownie Owl got the puppy out of the tree and took it home and gave it food . |
| 24 | Jean picked up the bag and took it home . |
| 25 | Fascinated by this display , Wong Long captured the mantis and took it home with him . |
| 26 | When it was cooked , he poured half of the broth into a small ceramic bowl and took it across . |
| 27 | Rather than glance at it as most people did , he reached out and took it gently from her grasp . |
| 28 | He was on his feet , holding out his hand to Nick who went to him and took it trustingly . |
| 29 | And all four of them discovered the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and his brand of Transcendental Meditation — and took it seriously enough to fly to India and study at his feet in Rishikesh ( John and George stuck it out for two months , Paul for one and a homesick Ringo for only ten days ) . |
| 30 | " But I dare say he 's impatient , " thought Hazel , " or he may have come off worst in some scuffle over a doe and taken it hard . |