Example sentences of "and it [verb] [adv] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The decline of the Hellenistic world left Alexandria isolated , and it did not again become a great cosmopolitan city until the nineteenth century when its resurrection was built on the profits of cotton . |
| 32 | Today he was wearing long trousers and a very remarkable jacket , and it did not even matter that his shoes were too small for his feet or that the safety-pin at his throat was digging into his flesh . |
| 33 | The animal was a grey , sturdy and broad-chested , stable under almost any conditions , and it did not even check pace as it charged through the young trees which obstructed its path . |
| 34 | In the last years of the Soviet Union and in the new republics the militia found itself dealing with a level of public demonstration — and sometimes disorder — of which it had no previous experience , and it did not always deal efficiently with them . |
| 35 | This form of life was shared by the sixth forms of grammar schools and the universities to which their students proceeded , and it did not greatly differ whether the frame of reference was ‘ Cambridge ’ or ‘ Oxford ’ , or to import an Arnoldian variation on this model , Hebraic or Hellenic , directed towards ‘ criticism ’ or ‘ appreciation ’ . |