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

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1 Mrs Burrows had made her a red coat with fur on the collar and cuffs and it suited her dark hair and huge brown eyes perfectly .
2 Right , and it made my last week .
3 She had shot him for all the things he had done to her and her husband , shot him because , in the end , she still loved him , and it made his ultimate betrayal all the harder to bear .
4 But when the nation was not at war the social round of the Fields was formidable Olive , it is said , eventually grew tired of Morris Grange so , in 1919 , Norman bought Lartington Hall with its 140 acres of parkland , 3 grouse moors , 3 lakes , 13 farms and most of the cottages in the village , and it became their principal residence for the rest of their lives .
5 Photography was part of the course ; he found to his delight that he had the college darkrooms to himself , and it became his main focus for the four-year course .
6 Photography was part of the course ; he found to his delight that he had the college darkrooms mostly to himself , and it became his main focus for the four-year course .
7 Handel wrote the Messiah in London , where he lived in a house close to present-day King 's Cross Station , five years after suffering a severe stroke , and it received its first performance in Dublin in 1742 .
8 The management of information becomes an art , master it and it becomes your unequal advantage .
9 Ten minutes later , she miaowed if I approached her and it took her several hours to forgive me and to stop treating me like a walking cat repellent .
10 The note was a jumble of misspelt and blotched sentences , and it took her several minutes to decipher .
11 But , when she was down in the country , I had a BSkyB dish installed in London and it took her 24 hours to find it .
12 The NGA was , at one point , fined £150,000 ; some time later it was fined £375,000 and it had its entire assets of £11 m seized .
13 It has been debated on several occasions and it had its Second Reading in May 1989 when it was introduced by my hon. Friend the Member for Ealing , Acton ( Sir G. Young ) .
14 It had its posh end and it had its rough end and it had that strange indeterminate bit in the middle that was neither , but had the pretensions and failings of both .
15 Robert Luterell , younger brother of Sir Geoffrey Luterell , who commissioned the famous Luterell Psalter , gave his house called ‘ the Gannoc ’ on St. Peter 's Street for use as a school , and it had its own chapel of St. Mary .
16 The actual administration of the National Union was separated from Central Office in 1921 , and it appointed its own secretary thereafter ; it was a change of no great importance , for the National Union continued to work from Central Office and the Principal Agent continued to be Honorary Secretary , but it was a minor declaration of independence .
17 Primarily peasant guerilla fighters , people who were fighting in the Red Army , and it draws its mass support , the Party members draw their mass support , er from the peasants in the areas where they establish their authority .
18 A complex dedicated simulator can cost several million pounds and it needs its own crew of skilled operators .
19 I 'm Nigel I 'm Chief Executive of the National Charity Community of Transport which is based in Manchester , and it 's that last point which is really significant behind my question , and it concerns your new premises and , I 'm one it 's a question as to what your planning to do , and secondly , a request if you 're not , er , that you could provide within that some working space for people from out of town , to use when we 're in London , complete with things like , you know , coin operated fax machines , because I find I spend quite a lot of time in London , you have meetings on successive days , you have time to kill , and there 's no where sort of , comfortable to go and sit down and get on with some things .
20 The north-east was no place to refine one 's art , but the money was good ( if you could prise it from the agent ) and it widened my working circle ( if you survived . )
21 person I would n't bother anybody , and it changed my entire personality .
22 and it shook his little lad back
23 But from the peace of your Munro , all such regrets at its passing as a place of tranquillity vanish and it unveils its wilder delights at the east to those who come by foot and not by a knob-head 's speed boat .
24 She does this because she feels it to be her duty to God and it makes her happy helping these people .
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