Example sentences of "and it [vb past] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its yellow eyes were looking at me ; its mouth opened and it made strange sounds at me . |
| 2 | One shop window in Covent Garden was devoted entirely to a display of this book , and it received coveted reviews in the quality press . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | I looked up the teletext and it said full squad for Manchester United . |
| 5 | It was inspired by Brendan Foster and it brought international athletics to the town and put it on the map . |
| 6 | The sea-blue eyes gazing back at her were coolly assessing , and it took considerable effort on her part not to look away . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This was the first practical method of producing colour transparencies , and it utilised minute grains of starch from la pomme de terre . |
| 10 | This was the first practical method of producing colour transparencies , and it utilised minute grains of starch from la pomme de terre . |
| 11 | I find that kind of back-door pressure disgraceful and it caused great concern to many people in my local association . |
| 12 | It prolonged the life of mice with leukaemia , and it produced dramatic remissions in some leukaemia patients . |
| 13 | The music was well-made , sometimes boldly scored , and it produced attractive gestures from the start which glisteningly sampled ideas above a deep held bass . |
| 14 | In 1891 the Review of the Churches began publication and it included representative editors from not only Nonconformity but from the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England . |
| 15 | William Boyd 's excellent survey of evacuation in Scotland showed that out of sixty-eight questionnaire returns giving details of journeys in the first wave , fully one-third spoke of their evacuees not arriving at their destinations until 5 p.m. or later ; and it included graphic descriptions of such journeys , including the testimony of one teacher evacuated from Glasgow to Aberdeenshire , whose journey was : |
| 16 | Yet the Commission could only do what member states allowed it to do , and it lost real power to other institutions which protected national interests . |
| 17 | Eugénie loved the sea and was a strong swimmer even though at Biarritz she found that ‘ the sea was very cold and it required great strength of mind to get in ’ . |
| 18 | It was a very hard job holding everything together and it required tremendous dedication from everyone concerned . |
| 19 | This meant that the guest lists had to be scrutinized with great care and it required considerable awareness on the part of Eugénie to be able to decide who would match with whom . |
| 20 | The short cloak had three advantages over the coat : it need not be tailored and so was available ‘ off the peg ’ ; it was more fashionable ; and it allowed unhindered access to the sword . |
| 21 | The Continent , though devastated by war , was still of enormous significance , a centre of technologically-advanced industrial production , with a large population and it exerted colonial control over much of Africa and Asia . |