Example sentences of "[pron] and it [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But it shows she was trying everything and it did put an end to the sightings at that time . ’ |
| 2 | It 's too complicated to explain er why this happens , but such simulations have been done , notably about Parker Baker and Smith who did the famous one and it does suggest that if you start off , even if you start of with similar size , that is sex cells , they will be driven by a competition for reproductive success to the extremes and you 'll end up with two extreme types , a large type proto-ovum and a tiny type , a proto- sperm . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought about it and it does go back to those very early days and probably to that first meeting , ’ she says . |
| 4 | The Chancellor yesterday very kindly did not put V A T on books and periodicals but had he done so that would have the effect of taking more than one hundred thousand pounds out of our accounts in the current year without us being able to do anything about it and it does seem to me that we should be considering asking the members in general meeting to pass to the Council of the Association the right to set and increase subscriptions and having properly advised the members thereof to fix the effective date of such increases , otherwise we are very badly placed to respond to short-term problems . |
| 5 | er I 'm slightly worried about the effect on the Olympic movement of Atlanta being chosen only in the sense that er that this is the , I think the sixth time in 25 years that a North American city has got it and it does look rather as if the er pressures are now , on the financial side , are now coming very much from the North American continent and I 'm not at all sure that that 's really good for the Olympic movement . |
| 6 | ‘ What we brought into the head office was financial expertise as I 'd recognise it and it did deliver a huge benefit including giving professionally-based leadership at the centre for all the financial staff already working out there in the field . |
| 7 | I have n't smelt anything and it does seem that ICI have given adequate warning . ’ |