Example sentences of "[noun sg] and it [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was then that they released the Wheel and it came bowling down the hill not more than ten yards from where I was standing . |
| 2 | Dawn was just breaking and I began to see a little more civilisation and it looked sort of right . |
| 3 | It blames the poor , it blames the unemployed , it blames industry and it blames commerce for the mess that we 're in and never says anything about itself . |
| 4 | We caress the foal and it learns affection for us . |
| 5 | ‘ Both sides played their part and it shows football can be played with passion and pride without resorting to thumping the ball forward . ’ |
| 6 | You know , the one where you sit there and lie through your teeth about spending every waking hour flossing and probing and massaging and never go out of an evening without your single-headed brush , and the Aussie hygienist who looks like Brooke Shields on a good day takes one prod at your gum and it spouts blood like Moby Dick on a bad day and the game 's up there and then . |
| 7 | This ‘ instinctive revulsion from regulation ’ is the foundation of his libertarian heritage and it gives rise to a particular vision of how broadcasting should develop and what its purposes should be . |
| 8 | It is worth money and it costs money . |
| 9 | I have come to the same conclusion that some a method of appointment is in fact right and it makes sense . |
| 10 | It is controlled by a computer keyboard and it understands LOGO 's simple commands . |
| 11 | It was our first time in the saddle and it had daughter , 11 , champing at the bit for more . |
| 12 | It generates interest in Apple and it sells hardware . |
| 13 | I told my dad that was I chucked his in the bin and it had sort of stains on it and I told him that was |
| 14 | but they were all to do with sort of satellite dishes and it was in their reception area and it had satellite T V on , and it was an advertising thing as much |
| 15 | This needs careful planning and it makes sense to start saving early . |
| 16 | Out of the two authors , I prefer Harper Lee 's style of writing because she is much more fluent in her writing and it contains energy , happiness , sadness , and really imaginative descriptions . |
| 17 | The noxious substance contained in the two anal glands , one on either side of the animal 's rectum , is called butyl mercaptan and it plays havoc with a predator 's face . |
| 18 | That is a fact of life and it influences unemployment . |
| 19 | I went up the road and it went bang and blew a out the back ! |
| 20 | The most common type used by gardeners is drawn through the earth by rotors that dig the soil and it takes practice to get the knack of using it . |
| 21 | Riven stabbed his knife in deep behind its ear and it went limp . |
| 22 | This tendency is proud and secure in its bureaucratic status and it identifies equality ( antiracism ) with efficiency and good management practice . |
| 23 | This is my second letter and it serves notice that should it provoke no reply it will be followed to Keswick by its author , bent on meeting his old and gallant friend Colonel Hope , who he had heard was passing through those parts for a short while to expedite some business before moving on to another country . ’ |
| 24 | Well we were lucky in that we 've been able to do , have a , a very good relationship with a company called well known in the marine side and they put in forty five thousand pounds into er the scheme and promised that before Christmas and that was reading the paper one day in November the , the Robert the National Heritage Minister saying that they may be , may , if you 're lucky , going to put some money into sport and er so we contacted them and we were one of the first sports to get , had money doubled as they say in the bingo hall , so we er we now have ninety , ninety thousand pounds and which I wh has been distributed or will be distributed in the , in the following way so that 's how we 're gon na spend it and er these er , the administration represent we were basically overwhelmed with enquiries and s we took on a person in order to , to do it , the normal R Y A staff had already got enough on so we took on a girl called Sara who answers all the queries on the Year of Youth Hotline and erm we are also running the boat shows , the four or five N B L challenge which is the flagship event for our sponsors which is er I wo n't go into the , the details but is a , a talent fight , talent spotting event for under sixteen year olds around the country and it provided fleet of dinghies , the prize for which is a dinghy which is not , not a bad prize I think you 'll agree . |
| 25 | ‘ I looked up the tenth anniversary and it said tin , which was a bit limiting . |
| 26 | It is called the Ten Day Thermo Active Body Contouring Treatment and it contains methyl nicotinate . |
| 27 | I agreed to give a dinner and it took place in my London home some weeks later . |
| 28 | It ties in with exactly the sort of development which you 're doing in rural settings for learning disability and it attracts grant because of its er , its ability to show an element that is training people towards future employment . |
| 29 | In the early days there was no cure and it killed AIDS patients the first time they got it . |
| 30 | It has a black canopy over the front and it says Health and Beauty Salon , with a telephone number and at the side of the door it says Gloria M. |