Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv] [subord] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the stunned silence George Felse got up , without speaking , and crossed the room to where Gus 's jacket hung on the back of a chair , turned towards the replenished fire , and steamed gently as it dried . |
| 2 | She estimated that its body was about twice the size of the shuttle , but it seemed much larger because of the mottled membranes that extended like wings on both sides of the creature , and rippled lazily as it swam through space . |
| 3 | … imagine a fairy chain stretched from mountain peak to mountain peak , as far as the eye could reach , and paid out until it touched the ‘ high places ’ of the earth at a number of ridges , banks , and knowls . |
| 4 | We climbed Storskarfjell on a long and hard day that started before the sun came up and finished long after it had gone down . |
| 5 | I saw again the one that escaped the Grounds and died just before it made it to the stream . |
| 6 | Like a forest fire , it started from the individual and grew outwards until it enveloped the whole area of monastic patrons and friends and dependants . |
| 7 | During a violent storm it broke away and drifted westwards until it hit land on the barren headland of San Quentin . |
| 8 | He heard himself , it sounded like a door opening somewhere inside him , it was an old door , it had been stuck for years , you had to heave on it , you needed all your strength , and then it gave a few inches , and cried out as it gave . |
| 9 | Later in the twelfth century Vladimir became the capital and leading city of the area and continued so until it succumbed to the Tartars . |
| 10 | Thinly washed colour was applied , then blended with the brush and pushed around until it felt right . |
| 11 | Christina touched the side of his jeep and jumped away as it began to rock . |
| 12 | Mouths that opened and closed hungrily as it advanced , showing lots of saw-teeth within the openings . |