Example sentences of "and it [vb past] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , here we went at twice the speed , and it finished up half the time . |
| 2 | He died at noon , and it meant so much to me that my friends were there . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The children obviously enjoyed the activity , and it brought up some very interesting points about error in their estimation and other matters . |
| 5 | ‘ We had a gale last night , and it brought down some of the tiles on your cottage . |
| 6 | It had an educative purpose , and it brought in some cash to hard-pressed regions . |
| 7 | Erm and it went up that that night . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It cracked the wall down that side and it took out that window put a big crack in there and also in the ceiling . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The good news is Blanc 's medical found nothing untoward — and it revealed very little fat . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It cost an arm and a leg — it 's an ordinary navy coat to me , and it cost as much as a fur . ’ |