Example sentences of "and it [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour has a long list of priorities : a £3 billion pledge on pensions — presumably health comes after that ; health presumably comes after Labour 's £1 billion recovery programme and it presumably comes after Labour 's £8 billion housing pledge . |
| 2 | And the , the water to bathe in came from the local river and er it was very very sandy and it just looked like mud that you were having to get in and do your bath . |
| 3 | And then I began to become very worried about it and it just happened by chance that one Friday morning I heard a programme on Radio Brighton , and it was Doctor Wisbey speaking about dyslexia , and it dawned on me immediately that my son was dyslexia . |
| 4 | This happens with Latin American workers in the USA and it also happens with ASL users ( Fischer , 1978 ) . |
| 5 | And it also managed to chip some of the woodwork , curious to think that I was offered as war damage compensation five pounds to re-case the piano , you could n't of had it repolished for five pounds , but thinking was working class people should n't have pianos , I 'm certain that was at the back of , of the gentleman whose job it was to evaluate war damage , he certainly raised his eyebrows every time we told him , what either a piece of furniture or crockery or cutlery which had been destroyed had cost and he was so foolish after er the house had been almost flattened as de demand bills as proof of evidence that your figures were correct |
| 6 | Okay , now I 've just used this one example , but if you look at erm each other and one another there is also a reflective pronoun to find that they work in the same way in the appropriate antecedents and it also works for quantifier pronoun relations every girl admires herself which is fine but herself admired every girl does n't make a whole lot of sense . |
| 7 | ‘ Play Kylie or Jason at it and it soon dies of boredom . |
| 8 | I take a political position according to my belief in the particular issue , and it never coincides in respect of more than one issue with that of any particular party . |
| 9 | I do about three hundred sit-ups a day and it still refuses to firm up , but what else can I do ? |
| 10 | In the years when this inexplicable phenomenon occurs — and it usually happens around Christmas , and so is known by the local fishermen as El Niño — the plankton suddenly vanish , the fish die and the birds fly away or are left to starve and rot . |
| 11 | The alder ( Alnus glutinosa ) is widespread on wet soils , although there are no large alder woods , and it usually grows in association with sallow ( Salix cinerea ) and downy birch ( Betula pubescens ) . |
| 12 | Perhaps ; but I 've never seen any particular virtue in consistency , and it certainly made for variety . |
| 13 | I put on the dress and it suddenly came to life . |