Example sentences of "and it [verb] some [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this formed a background to the first century of crusading ; and it goes some way to explaining the more secular aspects of the magnetism which drew French knights to take up the cross in their thousands . |
| 2 | Most of the old great Elf towns date from this period and it goes some way towards accounting for their remoteness . |
| 3 | It was not quite what she envisaged for herself but it had the advantage of being cheap and it went some way towards satisfying Grace , who was convinced that London was a den of iniquity waiting to swallow up her unsuspecting daughter . |
| 4 | In this early period American railway capital and building energies went mainly into track and engineering , and it took some time for the station to catch up with the grandiose schemes of the companies . |
| 5 | Kim Il Sung headed the NKIPC ; the membership was disparate and it took some time for Kim to establish his control . |
| 6 | Both small-town stations and large city stations proved amenable to this treatment , and it had some influence in Canada , but still the picturesque could not be stopped in its tracks . |
| 7 | I still think his essay , far from being ‘ a rather feeble piece of writing ’ , to be a powerful piece of advocacy ; and it contained some remarks about culture and religious observance for which in penetration and acuteness I can recall no exact parallel . |
| 8 | This appointment was apparently predetermined , and it caused some offence in the profession . |
| 9 | The , the video does actually illustrate the way in which some of these services have been developed , and it includes some comments from people who are actually receiving services . |
| 10 | And it gained some notoriety for obduracy on female sufferance while the rest of the developed world was gradually seeing sense . |
| 11 | Taboo is a Polynesian word , and it means some kind of supernatural law or prohibition which you infringe at your supernatural peril . |