Example sentences of "and it [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the life of her she could n't say the expected thing and it hurt with surprising depth that this man had known her father when she herself had not known him at all . |
| 2 | Fore and aft trimming is effected by means of a small trim lever on the central console and it operates by changing tension on springs attached to the elevator push-rods . |
| 3 | As a result , its face appears to be covered in suede or velvet and it feels like soft moss to the touch . |
| 4 | When the war was over , an overhead inspection tower was fitted to its roof , and it continued in this role until superseded by car 31 ( 754 ) in 1934 . |
| 5 | If offers a clear choice to the electorate and it results in one party with a mandate from the people getting on with the job of governing . |
| 6 | All that postmodernism has been able to do is signal the demise and loss of all we have held dear , and it remains for another generation of artists to pull us out of the mire . |
| 7 | The Victorians made the gardens the highlight of the Old Town , and it remains to this day an ideal place to sit and relax . |
| 8 | A runner since the early fifties , Hugh had an 18-month spell of injury in 1988 , and when he started training again his weight had gone from 11 stone to 12st 4lb — ‘ and it felt like 16 stone when I was out running ’ . |
| 9 | Once they got there , however , they found the police would not allow them onto the tarmac with the welcoming VIPs and it looked at one point as though they were not going to get any pictures . |
| 10 | When you played Hammersmith a couple of years back and it got to that point in the song , I looked around and a lot of people were craning their necks , checking out how that was done . |
| 11 | They make the money now and it goes like flipping water . |
| 12 | And what happens then , the electric current , as we know , flows backwards and forwards and it gets to this bit here and there 's a break , so what does it do ? |
| 13 | So it 's all about sharing things out and it gets into this sort of fractions when we get when there 's not enough to go round and we have to start cutting things up cutting the pizza up . |
| 14 | I always knew it probably could n't last because nothing goes on forever , but in that time , I had a great time in New York , and it seemed at one point that everyone was there when David was doing the week at the Universal Amphitheatre . |
| 15 | The conclusion we are entitled to draw from these findings is that , in general , female usage tends towards the more ‘ careful ’ end of the stylistic continuum and male usage towards the more ‘ casual ’ , and it seemed at this stage of our research that we had some justification for the claim that in linguistic variation , sex-differentiation is prior to class differentiation and need not be interpreted as subsidiary to class ( as it normally has been ) . |
| 16 | Ellen wondered if he had petit mal and looked it up in a medical dictionary — neither of them went to doctors if they could help it — but the entry was not very helpful , and it seemed in any case the kind of symptom it would be better to be vague about , not define , not name , for fear the naming made it worse , less likely to evaporate out of existence . |
| 17 | You knew when it was supposed to leave Kirkwall and it went past this island or that one but |
| 18 | The agreement excluded the British and French nuclear arsenals , and it came as welcome news to advocates of nuclear disarmament , but ironically the INF treaty upset NATO planners and Europeans like Chancellor Kohl who feared , once again , that the agreement would harm the policy of an escalated response to any Soviet attack . |
| 19 | His love affair was with laughter , and it came in Black Comedy when his character , sculptor Brindsley Miller , was improving the look of his shabby flat by ‘ borrowing ’ priceless porcelain and antique furniture from his friend next door to impress his fiancee 's snooty father , who is visiting on the same evening that the supposed richest man in the world is arriving to inspect his sculpture . |
| 20 | See she still brings that dog up the school and it says on that paper you know no dogs allowed in the school . |
| 21 | And , it 's not a text but perhaps a verse that we could use as a , as a springboard is verse twenty seven , and it says at this point his disciples came and they marvelled that he had been speaking with a woman ! |
| 22 | And it says in this booklet that W H was for one for a period , the prospective Labour candidate for er Central , as was then . |
| 23 | And it had on painted hose of black and white , so cunningly painted that no man who saw them would have thought but that they were grieves and cuishes , unless he had laid his hand upon them ; and they put on it a surcoat of green sendal , having his arms blazoned thereon , and a helmet of parchment , which was cunningly painted that every one might have believed it to be iron ; and his shield was hung round his neck , and they placed the sword Tizona in his hand , and they raised his arm , and fastened it up so subtilly that it was a marvel to see how upright he held the sword . |
| 24 | The Council of Heads of Government meets without a published agenda that we can discuss before meetings are held , and it meets in absolute secrecy . |
| 25 | Somehow , after that , they succeeded in restoring a semblance of what counted as normality in their relationship to the weekend , and it passed without further conflict . |
| 26 | Cambridge Evening News , and it talks about environmental health officers meeting at Girton College to train in the media , and it actually mentions some of the locals , people like Robert Satchwell , who 's going to join us later , Julian Dunne , John Venables and so forth . |
| 27 | But as you go on into verse three , and it talks about this relationship again , er , it says he , she came to a field belonging to Boaz who was of the er family of Elimilech . |
| 28 | And it helps in healing disease . |
| 29 | Amongst over 20 year olds the share of temporary workers is below the average , and it falls for each age group until the pensionable age is reached . |
| 30 | It had limited access , it had planning permission for only 11,000 sq.ft. , and it stood on ancient water ponds that covered almost half the site . |