Example sentences of "and it [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the life of her she could n't say the expected thing and it hurt with surprising depth that this man had known her father when she herself had not known him at all . |
| 2 | This is the gentlest of expressions of authority , but it could scarcely be firmer ; and it fell on willing ears . |
| 3 | Pressure on sterling resumed in New York late on Tuesday night after mounting speculation that the UK Treasury was extremely reluctant to raise base rates ahead of next week 's Conservative party conference , and it continued in financial markets in the Far East . |
| 4 | When the war was over , an overhead inspection tower was fitted to its roof , and it continued in this role until superseded by car 31 ( 754 ) in 1934 . |
| 5 | It used to be important because it made it more difficult to score with groin kicks , and it led to narrow stances with the leading foot turned inwards . |
| 6 | And it led to all sorts of ‘ self-management agreements ’ between enterprises on the reallocation of foreign exchange . |
| 7 | A runner since the early fifties , Hugh had an 18-month spell of injury in 1988 , and when he started training again his weight had gone from 11 stone to 12st 4lb — ‘ and it felt like 16 stone when I was out running ’ . |
| 8 | He kissed my mouth , and it felt like warm butterflies brushing my lips , softly , quickly , and then it was gone . |
| 9 | Once they got there , however , they found the police would not allow them onto the tarmac with the welcoming VIPs and it looked at one point as though they were not going to get any pictures . |
| 10 | When you played Hammersmith a couple of years back and it got to that point in the song , I looked around and a lot of people were craning their necks , checking out how that was done . |
| 11 | And it lasted about three quarters an hour , and it all damped down . |
| 12 | Cos I 've still got a bit of a throat and it said for sore throats too if you want . |
| 13 | I always knew it probably could n't last because nothing goes on forever , but in that time , I had a great time in New York , and it seemed at one point that everyone was there when David was doing the week at the Universal Amphitheatre . |
| 14 | The conclusion we are entitled to draw from these findings is that , in general , female usage tends towards the more ‘ careful ’ end of the stylistic continuum and male usage towards the more ‘ casual ’ , and it seemed at this stage of our research that we had some justification for the claim that in linguistic variation , sex-differentiation is prior to class differentiation and need not be interpreted as subsidiary to class ( as it normally has been ) . |
| 15 | Ellen wondered if he had petit mal and looked it up in a medical dictionary — neither of them went to doctors if they could help it — but the entry was not very helpful , and it seemed in any case the kind of symptom it would be better to be vague about , not define , not name , for fear the naming made it worse , less likely to evaporate out of existence . |
| 16 | and it seemed like ten minutes , yeah , but like Jim came out and said do you realize you 've been out here for hours man |
| 17 | It would have been a public retirement , however — the first printing of the book was 6,000 copies , and it went through eleven impressions in as many years . |
| 18 | And it went to seven months because they did have a downturn in the business so it pushed the quantities back a bit . |
| 19 | You knew when it was supposed to leave Kirkwall and it went past this island or that one but |
| 20 | The agreement excluded the British and French nuclear arsenals , and it came as welcome news to advocates of nuclear disarmament , but ironically the INF treaty upset NATO planners and Europeans like Chancellor Kohl who feared , once again , that the agreement would harm the policy of an escalated response to any Soviet attack . |
| 21 | His love affair was with laughter , and it came in Black Comedy when his character , sculptor Brindsley Miller , was improving the look of his shabby flat by ‘ borrowing ’ priceless porcelain and antique furniture from his friend next door to impress his fiancee 's snooty father , who is visiting on the same evening that the supposed richest man in the world is arriving to inspect his sculpture . |
| 22 | And it took about two minutes to twig what I was going on about ! |
| 23 | And it had on painted hose of black and white , so cunningly painted that no man who saw them would have thought but that they were grieves and cuishes , unless he had laid his hand upon them ; and they put on it a surcoat of green sendal , having his arms blazoned thereon , and a helmet of parchment , which was cunningly painted that every one might have believed it to be iron ; and his shield was hung round his neck , and they placed the sword Tizona in his hand , and they raised his arm , and fastened it up so subtilly that it was a marvel to see how upright he held the sword . |
| 24 | Somehow , after that , they succeeded in restoring a semblance of what counted as normality in their relationship to the weekend , and it passed without further conflict . |
| 25 | It had limited access , it had planning permission for only 11,000 sq.ft. , and it stood on ancient water ponds that covered almost half the site . |
| 26 | The post office was started in 1860 ; the first postmaster was Mr Robert Harker and it stayed in this family for 100 years . |
| 27 | It was in the kitchen and it consisted of three panels side by side . |
| 28 | In the Structure Plan this was regarded , at least in original proposals , as a strategic site for port-related industry and it remained as industrial land in the final version . |
| 29 | When it was formed in 1919 AIB was a branch of the old Air Ministry which controlled civil aviation as well as the Royal Air Force , and it remained in that department until immediately after the Second World War when the Ministry of Civil Aviation was formed . |
| 30 | It also stressed that the quotas constituted a derogation from the principle of non-discrimination on grounds of nationality , and it referred in that connection to the order of 10 October 1989 in Commission of the European Communities v. United Kingdom ( Case 246/89 R ) [ 1989 ] E.C.R. 3125 . |