Example sentences of "[coord] it [verb] [adj] [noun] and " in BNC.

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1 and it takes these batteries and everything and she says I 'll pick them up eleven cock , o'clock on Friday
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 Not even hearing the rolling crackle above , she was conscious only of the moving light , as the footsteps began again and it swung this way and that , searching something out .
4 I and I daresay others round this table , have experience of other counties who 've adopted that approach , or other panels who 've adopted that approach and it creates endless problems and endless appeals debating what is a windfall and what should be in the plan and what should be not .
5 It is the technique employed in Genesis 22 , and it creates enormous tension and suspense in the narrative , even though the ending is mercifully not that of high tragedy .
6 At first they were quite crude and it took little skill and expertise to forge the signature , and then fraudulently put them to financial advantage .
7 He established himself in the heart of Sicily , near Etna , about 449 , and it took several years and several expeditions by Syracuse to dislodge him .
8 And then , what they were wanting to get across , Hang on then , the reason why it 's put there is that most people are , are now acutely conscious of , of having too much fat , too much milk , too much this , that and the other , and it , and it grabs some people and it 's a legitimate way in .
9 ‘ It only came a couple of inches over the white line , he hit the brakes and it shot one way and then the other , ’ he said .
10 We got about twenty panels at work and on the panel there 's a little plastic thing stuck on and it needs four keys and one .
11 The flowers and foliage of the rose have gone and it needs thoughtful pruning and tying in to prevent it whipping about in autumn .
12 It makes psychology more scientific in its own terms ; it improves women , s standing in the discipline ; and it provides feminist psychologists and feminists in general with some interesting data .
13 But she has this threatening jacket , a dark linen one which she can pop on over the Lycra , and it has big shoulders and big assertive buttons and nips in at the waist , and this means , ‘ Fun I may be , but business is business and I will rip your arms and legs off in the boardroom if you let me . ’
14 Set off with the towing Julie 's car and the tow rope just snapped in two , and it jerked both cars and it cut off the fuel .
15 Carrying a tent where mountain huts are prolific may seem an unnecessary burden , but it allows total flexibility and we soon discovered the benefits of camping where we chose .
16 In many ways the VDU command is similar to a PRINT CHR$ ( num ) command , but it involves less typing and a number of characters may be easily sent .
17 Designed for office dictation use , this machine followed Edison 's preferred method of using electricity for the motor , but it had acoustic recording and reproduction .
18 down into his arteries and we ca n't get anything down there so they 're blocked , but he said how the hell he survived that op I do n't know he said they could 've done more with his legs but it meant another hour and a quarter minutes in surgery , and he said he 'd had enough we could n't have kept him on the table a minute longer so he said all we can do is wait , so now mum said well he 's alright in intensive care , he 's responding well , getting over the operation well , but what we was worried about was him breathing on his own , had he , had he been you see , anyway he said this on er Thursday
19 But it requires alkaline water and propagates freely from stem-cuttings .
20 This was a rather simplistic interpretation of the many disagreements which affected political life , but it contained some truth and helped to explain why France was unable to create a British or American-style two-party system : the question of authoritarianism and democracy in the constitution , which had divided Frenchmen since the Revolution , had again served to divide the country in the constitutional debates of 1946 ; the role of the Roman Catholic Church in national life divided the Christian Democrats from the other leading parties ; and questions of class conflict were particularly apparent in early 1947 in differences over wage levels .
21 The element of performance referred to under Dramatic playing occurs as part of a participant 's expression but it has such clarity and selectivity of communication to other participants that it acquires the ‘ adjectival ’ , descriptive characteristic of performing .
22 But it has growing influence and money , says Bruce Shapiro
23 ‘ I would n't describe the Sierra as fast off the mark , but it has sufficient power and cruises well .
24 The church was not in permanent use and had no resident vicar but it held occasional services and now at Christmas an elderly cleric in retirement had volunteered to conduct a sung Eucharist at nine-thirty with the help of a volunteer choir assembled from the Women 's Institute .
25 Today this chapter may seem almost too anodyne to be significant , but it gave much-needed relief and encouragement to Catholic New Testament scholars ( see Fitzmyer , 1982 , pp. 97–142 ) .
26 The Community has a vital role to play — but it needs more power and resources .
27 But it needs constant care and attention , and spills show up on it very easily .
28 But it predicts massive sales and energy savings only if heat pumps penetrate the space-heating market .
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