Example sentences of "and it [verb] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And it granted Mr Gorbachev most of the new powers he had requested ( though it rejected his clumsy proposal for a system of local inspectors to help enforce presidential decrees ) .
2 The forest is important as a source of food , since some gardens are situated in it , and it supplies palm wine , fibre for making clothes , wood for house construction and also a variety of sacred medicines .
3 It established liaison committees on , for example , matters to do with schools , and it developed liaison arrangements with the Open University and others .
4 He was man enough to smile , and it made Arthur Marshall laugh , which was always a wonderful sight .
5 It was all very deliberate , keeping the interrogators ' faces dark against the bright window , and it made Maxim grin .
6 EDS subsequently bought out Bedaux 's share of EDS-Bedaux and it became EDS Spain .
7 In the early days there was no cure and it killed AIDS patients the first time they got it .
8 It is suitable for floor to heights of up to 3m , and it fits loft openings down to 508x356mm ( 20in x 17in ) .
9 It was er cut out of palm trees and it got palm trees on hundred feet high , both sides of the runway .
10 Teheran Radio reported on June 6 that President Ali Akbar Rafsanjani had welcomed " the new page in bilateral relations " , and it quoted Prince Saud as saying that the rapprochement would " have important effects for the Islamic community " .
11 and it goes apple pies or , great big line , wrapped round I think it 's bread pudding .
12 Well we were n't anyway there was very few pe , I mean at this time of the year I suppose but there was one place and it said Sunday lunch , there was a sort of black board outside , Sunday lunch erm four pound was it four fifty it was four fifty was n't it ?
13 The thing I remember about him as an engineer was that we used to get these forms that told you each week who you were going to be working on , what the line-up was , and I saw this thing and it said David Bowie , Studio Two .
14 It was a clear manifestation of the industrial and cultural ethos which the coal companies were fostering : it believed that trades unions should be concerned with industrial issues only , and not wider political goals ; it gave privilege to local autonomy rather than general solidarity ; it favoured compromise with employers ; and it eschewed strike action .
15 And it becomes inheritance tax then if they die and leave it to you in their will ?
16 It talks of anecdotal evidence in 1991 that the carrying of knives is on the increase among young people and it quotes Detective Chief Superintendent Roger Stoodley , who works in east London , as saying : ’ I have never known so many people to be carrying these weapons . ’
17 The remainder , very carelessly and messily written , was supplied by an unidentified copyist , who contributed nothing else to the score ; and it lacks trumpet parts , though he left staves for them .
18 There still exists today a Northern Ireland Assembly , but its main function is as a scrutiny body for Westminster legislation applying to Northern Ireland and it lacks executive powers .
19 At least 2,000,000 people had been made homeless by the war , the report said , and it estimated food aid needs for 1991 as totalling approximately 1,000,000 tonnes .
20 And I pick it up and it says Loughborough Building Society and you can see about half a percent er premium rate on fifty thousand pounds , and you think that might be worth going for , for , for somebody who 's got a lot of capital , but is it really , because if you 've got fifty thousand in there , you are at risk .
21 It 's it 's on a little table at the end which says rate card analysis and it had T V areas Yorkshire T V North East T V and then principle main secondary local corner shop other and totals numbers in the middle .
22 Yeah and it had Windsor Davies in it did n't it ?
23 but they were all to do with sort of satellite dishes and it was in their reception area and it had satellite T V on , and it was an advertising thing as much
24 ‘ There are a number of problems with this and it uses NHS money in a quite fruitless way . ’
25 And it left boss Graham Taylor saying : ‘ This was no fluke and they worked hard for each other .
26 And the revenue got mean and decided it could n't afford the time of serving officers and it left pre-retirement council and other bodies with a gap to fill er the only other people who are er professional if you like , who could fill it , would be accountants and they were n't available .
27 Another thing they have in common , sadly , is violence at screenings ; one kid was shot dead outside the cinema on Juice 's opening night and it caused distributors Paramount to withdraw advertising for the movie .
28 ‘ Last year he organised a fund-raising match for us and it raised £51,000 net .
29 LAST DITCH TACKLE : And it halts John Aldridge
30 The TM operates on the same principles as the MSS , but it has a ground resolution or pixel size of 30 x 30 m rather than 57 x 79 m , and it records ground reflection in six , not four , wavebands .
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