Example sentences of "and it [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The risk of an even greater concentration of power , and the attendant risk of its mis-use , was recognised after the Second World War and it meant the pre-war attempts of active buying out were never resumed .
2 Reporters are proverbially heavy drinkers , and it took a few bottles of bonhomie with Johnny Smart before Charles could actually get down to the business for which he had come .
3 It spawned the Bladud tale , it made Francis Peck subtitle his Antiquarian Annals of Stanford of 1727 Academia Tercia Anglicana , or ‘ The Third English University ’ , and it fuelled the fertile minds of William Stukeley and later Victorian romantics .
4 down and it hit the two bars not the three bars , cos you get one , two and three bars do n't you ? that 's five , ten , fifteen pounds
5 The Association feared that if floodlighting caught on , clubs would be drawn into spending too much money , and it banned the new lights at Highbury from being used for official matches .
6 One rather exciting will home made will I hasten to add I dealt with last year , the lady of some who was not getting on with her husband and I think although I 'm not absolutely sure that the handwriting is that of her sister and we have this form filled in and it mentioned the bank or special savings account and it mentioned the premium bonds and it mentioned everything in the back bedroom and the linen in the linen and the linen cupboard because she 'd brought all this lot and it failed to appoint an executor and it failed to deal with the residuary estate it meant that technically there was a partial intestacy , as there was a partial intestacy the rules applied to that , first person to inherit ?
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