Example sentences of "and it [verb] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Duck and Frog search for their friends and it takes quite some time to find them all . |
| 2 | Unfortunately however , these functions are poorly documented and it takes quite some time to discover how to use them . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He died at noon , and it meant so much to me that my friends were there . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I still prefer my green chesterfield , Bobby and it gets so much rough treatment but they mellow . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I mean , you can have a an X J six running for ten seconds and it uses hardly any petrol . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The good news is Blanc 's medical found nothing untoward — and it revealed very little fat . |
| 18 | Wales Link is the most recent addition to the family , and it brings together all the major environmental groups active in Wales . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Though intimidation was not discussed in the case it can not be that B could have avoided the binding nature of the contract by the simple device of counterclaiming for damages for intimidation and it seems therefore that for the purposes of intimidation the plaintiff should be required to show unlawful coercion at least of such a degree as would enable him to avoid a contract . |
| 22 | Throughout that year the committee met as a whole only every two or three months , and it seems that much of the running was made by the deputy head , who described how he visited every department to explain the new arrangements and what the library could do for them . |
| 23 | But what was true of the beginnings of human culture is still true today , and it seems that much in modern society can be understood as reflecting just such a parricidal , antagonistic and regressive trend . |
| 24 | A friendly , welcoming representative is undoubtedly a further aid to recruitment and it costs very little . |
| 25 | Higher education , to many lecturers , is a matter of knowledge and skills consciously acquired and it eschews precisely those matters of thought , behaviour and belief which Lawton nominates . |
| 26 | This was essentially a biological approach , influenced by the taxonomic studies of Ray , and it aroused so much interest that Ray himself undertook a Latin translation . |
| 27 | Sometimes when it is really cold , and it rains heavily all day long , some of the horses that we normally stable overnight are kept in longer , and may not be put out in the paddock until the next day when the rain has stopped . |
| 28 | I could not face the prospect of spending a long holiday in Weymouth , because I would argue with my sister , and it rains too much in Weymouth . |
| 29 | It cost an arm and a leg — it 's an ordinary navy coat to me , and it cost as much as a fur . ’ |
| 30 | Structure , which can also be opposed to material , is a broader concept than both form , in its traditional sense , and device ; it embraces all aspects of a literary text , from sound to subject matter , and it includes both those which are defamiliarized and those which are not . |