Example sentences of "and it [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Duck and Frog search for their friends and it takes quite some time to find them all . |
2 | Unfortunately however , these functions are poorly documented and it takes quite some time to discover how to use them . |
3 | Alton Towers clearly is an exception but again , you have to pay a lot of money for it and it takes quite some time to get the return er , back and , and I would say that erm , many of Michael 's erm , er , organic erm , er , expenditure will , will erm , provide er , a really good return rather quicker but in the long run we think Alton is good . |
4 | and it takes about eighty records at a time because it 's using forty five letters with the |
5 | These three islands share a history that reads like a pirate novel and it takes very little research to find documented facts detailing pirate treasure and shipwrecks galore . |
6 | Even in a city like London , with no large industrial base and a preponderance of casual labourers , we can see in the last half of the nineteenth century , as Gareth Stedman Jones has put it , the ‘ emergence of a working class culture which showed itself impervious to middle class attempts to guide it ’ , even as it remained politically conservative , and it developed deeply rooted family patterns of its own . |
7 | New Zealand has another Irish pub — and it sold over 50 kegs of Guinness in its first three weeks , well ahead of any other beer it stocks . |
8 | Such was its popularity that two reprints were ready in May and June of the same year ; Faber and Faber published the poem as a pamphlet in September , and it sold almost 12,000 copies . |
9 | Well , half fiveish normally , cos because you had to make your own round up , mark the papers and then , say , six o'clock and it lasted possibly three hours , you just in time for you to get to school for probably ten past nine . |
10 | This method is often faster and it enables very expensive apparatus to be put to better use . |
11 | The dis-ease that people feel when things begin to go wrong , and their ability to stay calm and competent frays at the edges , is itself a feeling that OK people do not have , and it becomes yet another cause for concern and an occasion for self-doubt . |
12 | The value of the USRC was thus of an indirect kind ; by involving more than seventy MPs and peers in social research the Unionist belief that the party was a party of reform was re-established ; it began the trend towards research for political action that was to accelerate after the war ; and it affected much later policy by influencing those who were to make it . |
13 | At an election rally in the Wembley Conference Centre in 1983 , I stood on a nail in my training shoes and it went nearly four centimetres into my foot . |
14 | It was an explosive cocktail and it took just one spark to bring on her illness . |
15 | A hay rake full of wet , rotting leaves can be very heavy , and it took around twenty heavings as a rule to clear enough to stop the pipe gasping for breath — or , rather , water . |
16 | The hotel had its own high-class shopping area , and it took only one telephone call to arrange for an assortment of clothes to be sent up . |
17 | So how can they do , and it took about ten years to build this |
18 | I kept on waking up in a panic , thinking I had missed an observation , and it took quite some while to get my internal clock re-adjusted to normal waking and sleeping hours . |
19 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |
20 | But it was a yellow car and it had like soft toys and that in the back . |
21 | Erm yeah they do tend to but I have seen er a friend of mine had a really nice smart one , it was erm it was black , it was just plain black and it had really thin straps and erm it went down , it was a V or something here ? |
22 | Concepts like labour organized life in much the same way as the notion of God had done in the Middle Ages , and it had as little material reference . |
23 | I mean , you can have a an X J six running for ten seconds and it uses hardly any petrol . |
24 | Both items were reported 150 years after Augustus ' death by the traveller Pausanias ( 8 , 46 , 5 ) , who says that the ‘ keepers of the wonders ’ note that one of the boar 's tusks is broken while the surviving tusk is kept in the Emperor 's Gardens in a Sanctuary of Bacchus and it measures just three feet long . |
25 | The good news is Blanc 's medical found nothing untoward — and it revealed very little fat . |
26 | Even if you go to a great party with some friends and it lasts only three hours , so what ? |
27 | And it follows yet another appeal for help to trace the killer driver who ploughed into 12-year-old Paul Hartley in Fazakerley , a year ago . |
28 | its er about four feet long and it stands about two feet high , it 's on legs , it takes quite a lot of room up and we need the space . |
29 | It was called the Wyrmberg and it rose almost one half of a mile above the green valley ; a mountain huge , grey and upside down . |
30 | The sample of courses chosen by Molloy and Carroll was designed to include a relatively high proportion of NSE students and it provides very useful material about the relative performance of SE and NSE students on these courses . |