Example sentences of "and it [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , he was clever , and it hurt unbearably to know that now , of all times , she had to lie to him . |
| 2 | As a result , the Rector , Dr Colin Adamson , was advised by senior ILEA councillors to resign ‘ in the best interests of the polytechnic ’ ; however , the corporate status of the polytechnic meant that only the governing body can remove him from office and it chose not to do so and he refused to resign . |
| 3 | Agnes kicked it across the garden and it ran off yelping into the dunes , only reappearing once Agnes was safely out of the way , confined to bed . |
| 4 | Use of carbon fibre reinforced tube and rod not only added to frame rigidity , it enabled lighter and smaller designs to be created such as described already in Chapter Two , and it led eventually to sail designs with multiple stand-offs for improved aerodynamic characteristics . |
| 5 | And it remains finally to ask what place there was for trade unionism in the Labour Party 's revised prospectus . |
| 6 | A couple of days after starting this diet , Jamie 's crying was noticeably less and it became easier to get him to sleep each evening . |
| 7 | In other years , as in the spring of 1982 , a protracted spring drought slowed the growth of the sward and it became tightly graze . |
| 8 | And if you do buy a car privately and it turns out to have problems with it , there is very little , if anything the Trading Standards Department could do to help you . |
| 9 | It has a 70% crystal content and it does n't alter its shape or size one iota . |
| 10 | If the Headmaster walks in and there 's a bit of chaos I can tell him why it 's a mess and it does n't bother me . |
| 11 | " Yes , you 've made that plain enough and it does n't bother me . " |
| 12 | And it does n't bother me cos I put their , them first . |
| 13 | ‘ Men sometimes whistle at me in the street and it does n't bother me a bit . |
| 14 | They can always start again and it does n't matter . |
| 15 | The great thing about him is , when you walk into a room — and it does n't matter if you 're talking to senators or salesmen — he 'll say , ‘ Do you know Tip Anderson ? ’ |
| 16 | The scientific step-by-step approach is not the only way to proceed : to flow with creative and fruitful ideas is just as valid , and it does n't matter that some ideas fail to meet orthodox criteria . |
| 17 | You look at Sir Tom on the screen and it does n't matter what part he 's playing but you can tell he 's a great guy . |
| 18 | And it does n't matter where I am , I can call him up . |
| 19 | But we 're there with everybody really — singing and shouting and that … you 're all together and it does n't matter who else is there as long as they 're Oxford fans … it 's all about the team , is n't it ? … |
| 20 | They [ theoretical differences ] are not resolved really ; they continue as quite big arguments ; and there are quite big camps really of those who believe in theory and those who believe in scholarship , I suppose ; and we pretend that you can just muddle along and it does n't matter , but the crunch comes at things like marking exam papers , because if you 've got a student who 's heavily into theory , writing for a marker who 's heavily not into theory , then they tend to say things like ‘ oh , he 's just read Terry Eagleton , so blah blah blah ’ or ‘ she 's just read Cate Belsey and regurgitated that ’ so someone can get a bad mark because they 've written for the wrong person . |
| 21 | And it does n't matter whether we give him bad vibes . |
| 22 | ‘ You 'll be much comfier in those and it does n't matter how messy they get . ’ |
| 23 | And it does n't matter what you do , it does n't matter how you |
| 24 | Either of the two alternative pathways will do the job , and it does n't matter which one is used . |
| 25 | I mean , when you 're actually directing a piece of work , and it does n't matter who you 're working with … they know constantly how you feel about it , and that 's sub-text as well as text , and it 's osmosis ; and a lot of it is very elliptical and oblique and subtle , and it goes on all of the time ; and you know from them how they 're taking it , how they 're working and what they think of it by exactly similar sorts of processes you get those feedbacks , and you see the work . |
| 26 | And it does seem to me that erm I ca n't quite understand why it 's possible or it seems to be an argument that you can accommodate a bit more development , squash a bit development into Leeds and Bradford and it does n't matter very much . |
| 27 | I 'm just going to read one that 's already been published and it does n't matter if I read it again . |
| 28 | You can work it out , how many pennies per gram , or you can work it out , how many grams per penny , and it does n't matter which way round you do it , as long as you know what the answer means , but which way do you prefer ? |
| 29 | And these are all based on the allowances and it does n't matter if those are allowances are correct as long as we use the same incorrect allowances all the way through . |
| 30 | I HAVE been hearing about the latest ‘ in ’ birthday present for dad , and it does n't matter how old the old boy is . |