Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 ? |
5 | Played me one day and it played Annabel one day . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | A very unsubtle reminder of her aggression this morning and it brought Maggie back to life . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Its breath fled outwards into snow-bright dawn and it spat Jezrael through when she would have stuck in the slit . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Well , I looked at my list and it says February , and I 've got a list of my lectures for every week . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |