Example sentences of "and it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had a friend who used to say that if you burned a candle in your window and it burned all night , then the world would n't end while you were sleeping . ’ |
| 2 | He enjoyed a good relationship with Acheson and it suited both men for Dulles to be closely involved in policy formulation : Acheson because it would diminish at least some of the acrimony in Congress and Dulles because he wished to consolidate his record so that he could become Secretary of State in the next Republican administration . |
| 3 | Nigel : But 40 leading scientists do say that carbon dioxide is made in producing uranium and building the reactors , and power stations are not the main source of greenhouse gases anyway ; and nuclear programmes divert money from energy-saving programmes , and it takes six years to build a nuclear power station and you can save that amount of carbon dioxide in six months by saving energy . |
| 4 | If you go to , your master 's away cu say he 's gone to race meeting and it takes two day , they 're going to be up at , say Ascot , more likely he goes for the week . |
| 5 | The wax is on for about two minutes , and it takes two seconds to pull it off . |
| 6 | Fear is the key , and it takes many forms . |
| 7 | and wrap it up into a package and say you know if anything goes wrong and it takes four hours then you |
| 8 | A lot of my work includes routing grooves for 5/8in and 3/4in boards , and it takes some time achieving the right width of groove even with the appropriate cutter . |
| 9 | Experience of objects is mediated by the senses , and it takes some time before the child appreciates that objects are best understood not as functions of action and sensation , but as entities which have an existence that is independent of the child 's own actions and experiences . |
| 10 | I am aware , when I go on publicity tours , that the necessity to project yourself , to sell your product , all the time , moves you into the outward and trivial parts of your personality , and it takes some time to get back to being centred , and to finding who you are again within yourself . ’ |
| 11 | The colon is unused to the fibre and it takes some time to adjust . ’ |
| 12 | and it takes these batteries and everything and she says I 'll pick them up eleven cock , o'clock on Friday |
| 13 | The points of choice have to be put to other people and it takes patient consultation before everyone can agree about the management plan for a school in which social , academic , moral and community developments all have their place . |
| 14 | In a ground loop there are very high inertia forces on the fin and it takes expert knowledge to detect quite serious damage in these areas , particularly with T-tailed types . |
| 15 | All these mistakes are only too easy to make , and it takes constant effort to keep oneself up to the mark . |
| 16 | If you knit with a yarn that is too thick for your machine and it feels hard work to you , it is probably hard work for your machine too . |
| 17 | Software Publishing Corp warns that a turnover shortfall in the second quarter will yield share earnings between $0.15 and $0.17 , compared with $0.32 , on turnover of $43.4m in the year-ago period : second quarter revenues are expected to come in between $31m and $33m , and it blames continued price competition and soft international demand . |
| 18 | When it first went off some time ago it would n't go but one day I took I took a jelly out in a glass dish and it bonked this thing and the light came on again . |
| 19 | Proctor & gamble and Unilever , the two giants of the detergent industry , were guilty of this practice , and it recommended that advertising be reduced and product prices cut . |
| 20 | Its yellow eyes were looking at me ; its mouth opened and it made strange sounds at me . |
| 21 | The theory was a good scientific theory , in the sense described in Chapter 1 : it was simple and it made definite predictions that could be tested by observation . |
| 22 | And it made better grass . |
| 23 | Our masters have had to size up the capacity they have at different plants and it made more sense to move production to Leeds |
| 24 | There were n't , we did it singly and it made more people did n't it ? |
| 25 | Wake , who has taken over from Ron Aitken , said one of BAIE 's strengths was its diversity and it made sound practice , as well as fun , to tap into the network . |
| 26 | It was meant to be intimidating , and it served that purpose well . |
| 27 | A spokeswoman for the album said : ‘ Last year there was a compilation charity record released to coincide with the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and it sold 100,000 copies . |
| 28 | For the rest of the year , Dataquest counts on recession to put a damper on growth , and it forecasts that shipment growth rates will slow to an average 13% to 14% for the full year , while total revenue increases very slightly . |
| 29 | We got out over and we had n't got twenty yards when the flares went up and it became undiluted hell |
| 30 | News of his work with the handicapped also leaked out at the centre and it became common knowledge that he was using the OBEX swimming-pool . |