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

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1 In use I found it to be very acceptable ( to quote Prime Minister Major ) and it ran all the DOS and Windows packages I threw at it — and here 's the rub .
2 With 12 players on call from the World Cup compared to the USA 's six , Canada could rely on experience and it made all the difference , especially among the backs where the Eagles paid a heavy price for dropped passes , missed tackles and errant kicks .
3 For the first time Janine felt that she had an ally , and it made all the difference to her .
4 It 's loving-kindness and simplicity , and it lay all the time in your pictures , implicit in every petal and every jug you ever painted . ’
5 and it went all the way round , no problem there .
6 Anna had come into the world feet first and it took all the experience of Mrs Finklestein and the skill of the young Dr Arlen , who had come back at once with Denis , to turn the baby round without strangling the little thing with its own cord .
7 She did n't need to turn round to know he was standing there , and it took all the will-power she possessed to finish the task she was working on , knowing he was just a few feet away .
8 She felt the puff of his breath on her ear , and it took all the determination she possessed not to turn round .
9 Cornflower-blue eyes bored into her own and it took all the willpower she possessed not to look away .
10 The arena was almost full and it had all the makings of a full scale rumble .
11 The inquest went on for many days and it had all the appearances of the public inquiry that was to follow .
12 and it had all the paperwork with it , it was gon na be shipped to Singapore .
13 And three great big bins from from the they called them and I had three bins in my shed that I stored the barley in and I put the moisture extractor into them and it blew It had wee in it and it blew all the moisture out .
14 The truce of 1921 was attacked as a typical piece of Lloyd George chicanery , and it needed all the efforts of the party leaders to stop the party from breaking up the government there and then .
15 Too small , and it cried all the time
16 It was raining when her flight arrived at Heathrow and it rained all the way back to her flat in Islington .
17 With the help of his father , John built the Nautilus , 38ft long and one of the earliest boats to be driven by a screw propeller , and it outpaced all the steamers which followed the University Boat Race between Putney and Mortlake , which by then had become an annual event in the spring of each year .
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