Example sentences of "and it [vb past] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He enjoyed a good relationship with Acheson and it suited both men for Dulles to be closely involved in policy formulation : Acheson because it would diminish at least some of the acrimony in Congress and Dulles because he wished to consolidate his record so that he could become Secretary of State in the next Republican administration . |
| 2 | Its yellow eyes were looking at me ; its mouth opened and it made strange sounds at me . |
| 3 | It helped to develop valuable projects ; it utilized market skills in the implementation of schemes ; and it began that process of integrating central-government departments into corporate entities through which regional problems might be better addressed . |
| 4 | One shop window in Covent Garden was devoted entirely to a display of this book , and it received coveted reviews in the quality press . |
| 5 | Mixed development met the sociological dictates of urbanity and community ; it met the planning critics of inter-war sprawl ; and it met architectural requirements of variety in materials ( concrete , brick , wood , pebbles and strong colours ) . |
| 6 | I looked up the teletext and it said full squad for Manchester United . |
| 7 | It was inspired by Brendan Foster and it brought international athletics to the town and put it on the map . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was in the FA Cup 1st Round tie at The Nest against first division opponents Manchester City and it came five minutes after half-time to put us ahead ; we went on to win 2–0 . |
| 10 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
| 11 | Watering of the services turned out to be a job when the Standard 4 drained the Aberystwyth water tank and it took four trips for the local fire brigade to water Hinton Manor . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Kim Il Sung headed the NKIPC ; the membership was disparate and it took some time for Kim to establish his control . |
| 14 | The sea-blue eyes gazing back at her were coolly assessing , and it took considerable effort on her part not to look away . |
| 15 | He issued the text of his decree calling for a nationwide vote of confidence , and it omitted any reference to the special powers he had claimed on Saturday during a televised address . |
| 16 | Scotland was still , by contemporary standards , an unusually localized country , in which the government impinged less ; and it had two centuries of experience of long periods of royal minorities in which government and political life had to be kept going without the guiding hand of a monarch . |
| 17 | You were asked to phone in , so , erm , so our phone was out of order , so I had a phone card and it had four units on it . |
| 18 | This is the view cogently expressed by David Holbrook and it had many supporters among numbers in the National Association of Teachers of English . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It was a protracted illness , accompanied by a high temperature , and it precipitated another bout of bronchitis . |
| 21 | and it left three halves of the residual estate . |
| 22 | It meant we had to chase the game and it left more room for their two dangerous strikers . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And it blew massive holes in Mr Major 's argument that Maastricht means fewer powers for the European Commission — and no common foreign or defence policy . |
| 25 | And these opportunities were very considerable ; later generations might see the eighteenth-century empire as a monument to the constrictions of mercantilism , but at the time people saw it as the largest area of unrestricted trade in the world and it offered excellent prospects for men like the sugar and tobacco merchants of Glasgow . |
| 26 | This was the first practical method of producing colour transparencies , and it utilised minute grains of starch from la pomme de terre . |
| 27 | This was the first practical method of producing colour transparencies , and it utilised minute grains of starch from la pomme de terre . |
| 28 | I find that kind of back-door pressure disgraceful and it caused great concern to many people in my local association . |
| 29 | This appointment was apparently predetermined , and it caused some offence in the profession . |
| 30 | It prolonged the life of mice with leukaemia , and it produced dramatic remissions in some leukaemia patients . |