Example sentences of "and [adv] it [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ended up buying a cheap gas picnic stove for which cartridges were sold everywhere — and luckily it did us proud . |
| 2 | ‘ I was sitting there one day trying to think what was better than climbing a mountain — and suddenly it hit me … climbing two ! ’ he says . |
| 3 | That 's right yes , yeah that bit that was just like what they call a swan neck , just like the swan and that was like that and so it kept me at load level , they were built by and some of the best cranes I 've ever known on the dock . |
| 4 | If the wife can so easily dispose of this property , it may be that her husband will coax or bully her into parting with it to him or to his creditors , and so it allows her a privilege which no other grown-up person of sound mind in the country can enjoy . |
| 5 | It was an Unmentionable Disease , and he 'd caught it because he 'd been to an Unmentionable Place and so it served him right , but that did n't make it any less sore . |
| 6 | The Americans expected it and so it prepared them to sit down quietly and listen to speech . |
| 7 | and you get the headlines , and so it prepares you it emotionally prepares you for what 's coming . |
| 8 | It consistently indulged in folies de grandeur — and somehow it made them believable . |
| 9 | ‘ So you can have your meal where and whenever it suits you . |
| 10 | And now It knew him . |
| 11 | She could n't remember the last time that she 'd invited a man into her home , and now it made her feel uneasy to watch Luke Calder inspecting all these snippets of her life . |
| 12 | And now it seemed they were n't , because nothing was happening . |
| 13 | And now it seems they 're loading the whole blame for Germany on him , and he 's only a corporal and the Army 's his whole — |
| 14 | There were problems a few years ago when it first started with th the initial contract which was was won by the the County 's own direct service organization and now it seems we 're having a repeat of of those problems . |
| 15 | The event was cancelled and now it seems we may never see what Daf Leyland had planned for the future . |
| 16 | This column has already reported an addition to Matthew Hall 's family and now it gives me pleasure to report another addition at the Dodge Chemical Company — but this time its not another birth , it is the news that Adrian Haler 's daughter , Patricia Lewis joined the company on August 17th . |
| 17 | I have a feeling , actually , that all the prices are all the same , because , and here it tells you , and I seem to recall only seeing one oh no they are , five fifty to eleven pounds . |
| 18 | I like to drive because its the freedom it gives you , no standing around at bus stops and even it saves you money , going from place to place |
| 19 | The performance of the engine , on the bench , already meets its full specification for thrust and fuel efficiency and even it exceeds it slightly in some respects . |
| 20 | stuff on it and they have to have a pin number , so you put your pin number in and then it tells you exactly how many copies your pin number has copied |
| 21 | And then we got a table tester to help them refresh their memories , it 's like a disc and then you got the slots and then it tells you your eight times and that 's good as well but I mean he 's got them off by heart which is brilliant ! |
| 22 | And then it struck her : She had no land ! |
| 23 | And then it struck me . |
| 24 | And then it struck him . |
| 25 | , and then it make it down to make it two thousand centigrade . |
| 26 | And then It sensed him . |
| 27 | For example , it said I had a daughter called Samantha ( which is not true ) , and it said that I had a Citroen car ( which I do n't — I drive a Renault ) and that I spent three years at the Royal College of Art painting ten-inch red stripes on a piece of canvas and then it quoted me and it said : ' ’ I do n't know why we did it , ’ says Terry . |
| 28 | And then it gets me . |
| 29 | So what you do is , to type check disk space slash and then it asks you wh if it comes up with a question , which I expect it may well , if you 've never done this before . |
| 30 | The letter from the plaintiffs solicitors in respect of question of interest one causes , the letter of the twenty ninth of January of nineteen ninety two , asking Mr to confirm , that in addition to the settlement figure of forty two thousand pounds in respect of costs he 'd be paying interest until the date of payment , and er , there was never a mind that erm which find a reply to in , in thirtieth of March nineteen ninety two by Mr , there 's no unqualified agreement in figure of forty two thousand pounds , I do not wish to appear obstructive but your clients must recognise that there are effectively two issues to be resolved , namely the payment of their costs and the division of the parts of other property , surely in all parties interest that none of these are resolved , so it is surely in all party interest that those , those are resolved contemporary and then the letter goes on to dealing with questions of valuation , the bottom paragraph on page thirty two in the bundle says in answer to your letter therefore is that there is no agreement to pay interest , if there is then my client must be credited with interest on his costs , and then it says surgery and finally if ove if overall agreement can not be reached then my client reserves his rights on the issue of costs and I feel that this could lead to an acrimonious and protracted taxation , at the end of the day I suspect it would only be enforced the order for costs about taking a charge in my clients interest in the surgery premises , does that improve your clients position at all , as I say that was the position of the thirtieth of March nineteen ninety two and during the remainder of nineteen ninety two there were then further negotiations , some of them appeared to have been carried out er personally between er doctor and er doctor which seems to of been the partner , dealing with the plaintiffs position and er he says about his non negotiable offer at page forty one in the bundle apparently attached to a letter of the twenty first of December nineteen ninety two and er that had a time limit on , the twenty second of March , there was a reminder on the twenty second of February and erm the plaintiffs solicitors wrote on the fourteenth of April nineteen ninety three raising the question of costs erm say that erm we have now received your clients instructions , that they would be prepared to accept the sum of forty two thousand in respect of their standard basis costs which is inclusive of V A T and disbursements , you remember that our initial schedule of costs which I set part of my letter of the eighth of October total fifty thousand , nine hundred and ninety eight pounds , twenty six pence , in addition to this our client would require interest from the which is as of todays date at seven hundred and sixty days at seventeen pounds , twenty six a day totalling thirteen thousand , one hundred and seventeen pounds , sixty , in the circumstances I look forward to receiving your clients cheque for the sum of fifty five thousand , one hundred and seventeen pounds and sixty pence within the next seven days and then it says I believe you were certainly agreeing have been very patient concerning your clients costs , but now we wish these to be paid and that was responded to er Mr on the twenty second of April er but why he quite has not been directly involved in the conversation for some time and there was not reasonable expected response for seven days from him , er and then he goes on to say that although he appreciates his firm is still on the record , I shall seek instructions from my client , but it maybe he would wish to give notice of acting in person and indeed that is in fact what happened , what happened in this case . |