Example sentences of "[noun sg] and it [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had a friend who used to say that if you burned a candle in your window and it burned all night , then the world would n't end while you were sleeping . ’ |
| 2 | When it first went off some time ago it would n't go but one day I took I took a jelly out in a glass dish and it bonked this thing and the light came on again . |
| 3 | Play is many things to the child and it has many meanings . |
| 4 | The colon is unused to the fibre and it takes some time to adjust . ’ |
| 5 | Most of the old great Elf towns date from this period and it goes some way towards accounting for their remoteness . |
| 6 | It meant we had to chase the game and it left more room for their two dangerous strikers . |
| 7 | In any event the civil war was the ultimate sort of turning point which defined that the national government er had a responsibility for ensuring the permanence of the union and it took that responsibility so seriously it was prepared to engage in what was then the bloodiest war in human history . |
| 8 | well you drive through it on the main road and it goes both sides of the road |
| 9 | Love is the largest region of the transcendent world and it has many forms — there can be love of God , love of nature , and the love of a human being and love of our fellowmen . |
| 10 | She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say . |
| 11 | Water also has a melting point and a boiling point much higher than would be expected from its formula and it becomes more fluid with increasing temperature . |