Example sentences of "[noun] and it [verb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An optimistic beginning , with an early goal thrown in , gave way to uncertainty and it took McCoist 's second goal to inspire Scotland to the stirring finale which brought a third from Pat Nevin five minutes from the end . |
| 2 | The portiera was an old deaf lady and it took Sandison five minutes to explain who he was and who he wanted to visit . |
| 3 | Philippa , whose face was normally as radiant and untroubled as a child 's , had not stopped frowning since Lee had started talking to her that afternoon and it annoyed Conrad to see it . |
| 4 | Albert had said Mr Evans would be flaming mad when he heard about Mrs Gotobed 's Will and it seemed Albert was right . |
| 5 | Well we were n't anyway there was very few pe , I mean at this time of the year I suppose but there was one place and it said Sunday lunch , there was a sort of black board outside , Sunday lunch erm four pound was it four fifty it was four fifty was n't it ? |
| 6 | Played me one day and it played Annabel one day . |
| 7 | The job involved visiting mining camps , quarries and oilfields all over the world selling explosives and it gave Haslam his first taste of the excitement of travel , something that has remained with him all his life . |
| 8 | This notwithstanding , LIFFE 's Bund contract volumes have remained healthy at over 900,000 contracts per month and it remains LIFFE 's most important contract . |
| 9 | It talks of anecdotal evidence in 1991 that the carrying of knives is on the increase among young people and it quotes Detective Chief Superintendent Roger Stoodley , who works in east London , as saying : ’ I have never known so many people to be carrying these weapons . ’ |
| 10 | A very unsubtle reminder of her aggression this morning and it brought Maggie back to life . |
| 11 | So we 've both got it takes me an hour and a quarter to get to Caernarfen and it takes Jan about an hour and a half to get to Leek because they 're such bad roads . |
| 12 | Spring comes early to the Riviera and it made Modigliani , always sensitive to change , more restless than ever . |
| 13 | The thing I remember about him as an engineer was that we used to get these forms that told you each week who you were going to be working on , what the line-up was , and I saw this thing and it said David Bowie , Studio Two . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , Mike Hooper is to retain his status as Liverpool 's current No 1 goalkeeper and it appears Bruce Grobbelaar will be allowed to leave . |
| 15 | Its breath fled outwards into snow-bright dawn and it spat Jezrael through when she would have stuck in the slit . |
| 16 | The result : LANtastic for TCP/IP , is due to ship this autumn and it provides LANtastic clients with a range of terminal emulations , File Transfer Protocol between Digital Equipment Corp , IBM Corp and Unix hosts and distributed file sharing using the Network File System protocol . |
| 17 | Well , I looked at my list and it says February , and I 've got a list of my lectures for every week . |
| 18 | It was one of the things that had disappeared from Renascia towards the end and it gave Fenella an odd , rather out-of-balance feeling to see dawn light again . |
| 19 | Yeah but it only has Norwich and it has Dagenham does n't , that 's it is n't it ? |
| 20 | It would sadden Mr Peniket and the older parishioners and it saddened Quentin to think it would , but he saw no point in sitting in a chair and meditating all day . |
| 21 | The one day schools that we run for school teachers in the South East of England , a larger catchment area than the East and West Sussex — in fact it goes up towards London and it includes London — it goes out towards Kent and Portsmouth . |
| 22 | But it projected enthusiasm , delight and knowledge right through the television screen and it made Peter within a few months well-known to millions of people who had never imagined that they had any interest in natural history . |
| 23 | For the first time a sensation pierced the numbness and it caused Joe 's body to jerk and send a message to his brain that created the desire to shout , ‘ Do n't call me that , because I 'm not a sir . |