Example sentences of "and it [vb -s] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently they have had people calling in saying , ‘ please could I speak to Sue ’ , and that could be anybody , and then the switchboard has to go through the rigmarole of saying , ‘ what 's it all about , do you know where the person works , can you give me a bit more information ’ , and it takes up a lot more of their time , so please , if you 're leaving a message for somebody to call you back , leave your full name and your extension number . |
| 2 | Having more than 20 cigarettes a day doubles the risk compared with not smoking at all , and it takes about a year of non-smoking for that risk to return to normal . |
| 3 | Well , yes , we all know that , but if it gives the autograph seeker pleasure and it takes only a moment of your time , then it seems pointless not to oblige . |
| 4 | Well , I finally got Miguel to talk to them about it and it turns out the reason there are n't any old folk around is because they do n't live much longer than about 35 . |
| 5 | And it illumines too the politics of personal relations : the vital fabric of social life that exists in the silence between people — exactly that space which is filled by music : ‘ As the person talked to me in a conventional conversation , I knew , I heard that , inside himself , the person perhaps wept . ’ |
| 6 | However erm one thing I think that 's got to be borne in mind and it picks up a point that erm Leeds have made , is that they 're looking towards trendy migration , they say . |
| 7 | This means that her reproductive tract will contain a mixture of sperm from several sources and it becomes almost a matter of chance as to which particular male 's sperm fertilizes each of her shed eggs . |
| 8 | It 's filled with supersafe play equipment that 's paradise for the bravest of young adventurers ( 12 years and under ) and it stays open every weekend through the winter . |
| 9 | and put your heel down and it clips up the back , it was like |
| 10 | And it describes how the requirements of I S O Nine Thousand and One are satisfied within the group . |
| 11 | Campaigning is a demanding business and it swallows up a lot of time without guaranteeing success , said group secretary George Knowles . |
| 12 | You can do it that way and it works out a lot cheaper . |
| 13 | It comes from RHM Research and it shows how the company rescued valuable 16th and 17th century books that had been waterlogged in a flood at Sudbury Hall in Derbyshire . |
| 14 | This may well have been produced in Venice , and it demonstrates how the idiom of Leonardo most probably became known to Venetian collectors and artists . |
| 15 | and it gives up the ghost . |
| 16 | ‘ You plug it in when you go away and it switches on the light for you at the same time every evening , and switches it off too . |
| 17 | Reality overtakes it and it has n't the reserves to claw back . |
| 18 | It 's o onl only a thought anyway , we just , as I say we 're just erm we 're mulling it over and it has n't the jobs have n't even come up yet , but erm it 's , it 's it 's a means to a |
| 19 | There was a low murmur of consternation round the bus and , encouraged by it , he went on , ‘ Yes , it just takes one little ting loik dat and it snarls up the traffic for da whole day ! ’ |
| 20 | Despite being only a facelift of the current range , the new Polo manages to lose its tired old image — and it comes not a moment too soon , says Andrew Frankel |
| 21 | You know quite apart from the fact that you get a situation where somebody sets fire to the infrastructure and it closes down the whole of the East coast main line like it did two days ago . |
| 22 | And it cuts up the grass in wee bits and instead of er making the roads better it makes them worse . |
| 23 | And it cuts down the work then . |
| 24 | a body corporate ( other than open-ended investment companies ) to persons it reasonably believes to be members or creditors or holders of other investments issued by it ( or another group company ) and it contains only an invitation relating to that investment |