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

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1 In use I found it to be very acceptable ( to quote Prime Minister Major ) and it ran all the DOS and Windows packages I threw at it — and here 's the rub .
2 With 12 players on call from the World Cup compared to the USA 's six , Canada could rely on experience and it made all the difference , especially among the backs where the Eagles paid a heavy price for dropped passes , missed tackles and errant kicks .
3 For the first time Janine felt that she had an ally , and it made all the difference to her .
4 And it stretches all the tissue on this inside , and that 's what makes it sore .
5 It 's loving-kindness and simplicity , and it lay all the time in your pictures , implicit in every petal and every jug you ever painted . ’
6 This principle is not the special prerogative of anthropology , and it transcends all the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines .
7 Its emphasis is predominantly educational and it employs all the methods , activities and creativity associated with good education ’ ( 5 ) .
8 and it went all the way round , no problem there .
9 Anna had come into the world feet first and it took all the experience of Mrs Finklestein and the skill of the young Dr Arlen , who had come back at once with Denis , to turn the baby round without strangling the little thing with its own cord .
10 She did n't need to turn round to know he was standing there , and it took all the will-power she possessed to finish the task she was working on , knowing he was just a few feet away .
11 She felt the puff of his breath on her ear , and it took all the determination she possessed not to turn round .
12 Cornflower-blue eyes bored into her own and it took all the willpower she possessed not to look away .
13 The arena was almost full and it had all the makings of a full scale rumble .
14 The inquest went on for many days and it had all the appearances of the public inquiry that was to follow .
15 and it had all the paperwork with it , it was gon na be shipped to Singapore .
16 I think the best move they made in in , in recent years has been the introduction of what they call the and it travels all the way in the town .
17 And three great big bins from from the they called them and I had three bins in my shed that I stored the barley in and I put the moisture extractor into them and it blew It had wee in it and it blew all the moisture out .
18 He was an Australian and it sounded nasty the way he said it .
19 It , it 's really because as somebody gets older the risk gets very , very great , and it needs all the money that 's built up in the early years to sustain the risk , the charges for the risk later on , in the later years .
20 The truce of 1921 was attacked as a typical piece of Lloyd George chicanery , and it needed all the efforts of the party leaders to stop the party from breaking up the government there and then .
21 Too small , and it cried all the time
22 It was raining when her flight arrived at Heathrow and it rained all the way back to her flat in Islington .
23 With the help of his father , John built the Nautilus , 38ft long and one of the earliest boats to be driven by a screw propeller , and it outpaced all the steamers which followed the University Boat Race between Putney and Mortlake , which by then had become an annual event in the spring of each year .
24 ‘ With the Hendrix show the work goes right across the range and it covers all the bases . ’
25 No matter , since Pied Piper 's stunning ‘ Kinetic ’ throws it into gear and it soars all the way .
26 This second expedition to Benghazi is not mentioned in any official documents and it has all the hallmarks of a David Stirling private-enterprise job , especially in view of the personnel who were to be involved .
27 Clairol 's Silver Shot ( £19.95 ) is a small , compact hairdryer that wo n't take up loads of room and it has all the advantages of its bigger , professional-style counterparts .
28 I can suggest three such general features : heredity is digital , it involves a phenotype-genotype distinction , and it makes possible the amplification of quantum events into macroscopic ones .
29 It is very important indeed to ensure that the staff of G C H Q are not subject to potential conflicts of interest and as I said earlier the Prime Minister and I listened for some considerable time to the s to er to the points put forward by the trade unions to see whether or not that overriding er national objective could be maintained but we were not convinced , we were not convinced that erm the trade unions could overcome those potential conflicts of interest and it behoves ill the party opposite to try and put a different gloss on the fact that we in this country thanks to our legislation , have put harmony in place of strife and we are not prepared to allow the opposition to put that major achievement at risk .
30 And it blows all the gaskets and they have to have every single part of the engine taken out and cleaned
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