Example sentences of "and it [verb] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Holmes says : ‘ Steve could not have made a better start to his outdoor season and it opens up all sorts of possibilities . |
| 2 | Duck and Frog search for their friends and it takes quite some time to find them all . |
| 3 | Unfortunately however , these functions are poorly documented and it takes quite some time to discover how to use them . |
| 4 | Alton Towers clearly is an exception but again , you have to pay a lot of money for it and it takes quite some time to get the return er , back and , and I would say that erm , many of Michael 's erm , er , organic erm , er , expenditure will , will erm , provide er , a really good return rather quicker but in the long run we think Alton is good . |
| 5 | Stress is quite a problem among the teaching staff since they are still overstretched , and it takes very little extra pressure to produce a minor crisis . |
| 6 | These three islands share a history that reads like a pirate novel and it takes very little research to find documented facts detailing pirate treasure and shipwrecks galore . |
| 7 | At least three car owners out of every 20 have experienced theft from their vehicles , and it takes as little as four seconds for a car thief to break into a car without a key . |
| 8 | Right , here we went at twice the speed , and it finished up half the time . |
| 9 | He died at noon , and it meant so much to me that my friends were there . |
| 10 | Erm and it became too much for them because people were working more efficient , and therefore there was a an increase in the productivity level , and so they had to increase the number of foremen and chargehands , which was n't a bad thing because it was always our members that got made up to these respective er positions . |
| 11 | On a hill looking down towards Spain Roland meets his end ; and , although his death is not the end of the poem , it is its climax , and it enshrines almost all that is really great in it . |
| 12 | The dis-ease that people feel when things begin to go wrong , and their ability to stay calm and competent frays at the edges , is itself a feeling that OK people do not have , and it becomes yet another cause for concern and an occasion for self-doubt . |
| 13 | I still prefer my green chesterfield , Bobby and it gets so much rough treatment but they mellow . |
| 14 | The children obviously enjoyed the activity , and it brought up some very interesting points about error in their estimation and other matters . |
| 15 | ‘ We had a gale last night , and it brought down some of the tiles on your cottage . |
| 16 | It had an educative purpose , and it brought in some cash to hard-pressed regions . |
| 17 | Erm and it went up that that night . |
| 18 | He was local to the area , I think it was one of these bakers that used to used to do it but er he probably only used to do it once a week sell it once a week I think of all the people that was on course we got the best , we got the best place and er and it came out that the erm tourist information booklet . |
| 19 | It cracked the wall down that side and it took out that window put a big crack in there and also in the ceiling . |
| 20 | I kept on waking up in a panic , thinking I had missed an observation , and it took quite some while to get my internal clock re-adjusted to normal waking and sleeping hours . |
| 21 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |
| 22 | Concepts like labour organized life in much the same way as the notion of God had done in the Middle Ages , and it had as little material reference . |
| 23 | I mean , you can have a an X J six running for ten seconds and it uses hardly any petrol . |
| 24 | Charles de Gaulle had wanted such an agreement as a way to maintain French economic links to their former colonies , and it represented yet another important concession to him by the rest of the Six . |
| 25 | The good news is Blanc 's medical found nothing untoward — and it revealed very little fat . |
| 26 | Wales Link is the most recent addition to the family , and it brings together all the major environmental groups active in Wales . |
| 27 | And it follows yet another appeal for help to trace the killer driver who ploughed into 12-year-old Paul Hartley in Fazakerley , a year ago . |
| 28 | And it shows how some people get on . |
| 29 | The Shorts 360 comes into its own in the summer season , with frequent bus-stop services between the major islands , and it carries out some charters to the mainland to improve its utilisation . |
| 30 | Cotton Lane in dockland Bermondsey was one of the many small cobbled streets which served the wharves , and it differed very little from other riverside throughways . |