Example sentences of "and it [verb] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His holidays had just begun , and it suited Juliet 's book to let Patrick have him . |
| 2 | A column entitled ‘ Bulletin ’ informs her that Marilyn French will be discussing her new book , Beyond Power : Women , Men and Morals , at a public meeting to be held later in the week in London , and it crosses Robyn 's mind , not for the first time , that it is a pity she lives so far from the metropolis where such exciting events are always happening . |
| 3 | This notwithstanding , LIFFE 's Bund contract volumes have remained healthy at over 900,000 contracts per month and it remains LIFFE 's most important contract . |
| 4 | It is controlled by a computer keyboard and it understands LOGO 's simple commands . |
| 5 | And it seemed Fergie 's ten man heroes had squeezed out a momentous victory until the soccer fates suddenly stabbed them in the back in the pouring rain of Moscow . |
| 6 | If they were down to the last dregs of their confidence after their Hillsborough defeat it did not show and it took Kelly 's superb reflexes to deny Newell after only three minutes . |
| 7 | An optimistic beginning , with an early goal thrown in , gave way to uncertainty and it took McCoist 's second goal to inspire Scotland to the stirring finale which brought a third from Pat Nevin five minutes from the end . |
| 8 | Ian Smales 's try and Fox 's fourth goal tied the scores again with 10 minutes to go and it took Fox 's drop to separate the sides . |
| 9 | The script is by the Irish director Jim Sheridan , who started the ball rolling with ‘ My Left Foot ’ and ‘ The Field ’ and it stars Ireland 's most internationally renowned leading man , Gabriel Byrne . |
| 10 | For the first time a sensation pierced the numbness and it caused Joe 's body to jerk and send a message to his brain that created the desire to shout , ‘ Do n't call me that , because I 'm not a sir . |
| 11 | It isolates the experience of misery and it domesticates people 's anger . |
| 12 | Its passion for etymology , real or invented , appealed to a vanishing social world that adored word-games and crossword puzzles , and it reflects Tolkien 's early years as an editor of the Oxford English Dictionary : in fact he thriftily reworked his philological papers into the texture of his fiction . |
| 13 | It is well known that despite substantial industrial and occupational changes , the degree of gender segregation in employment is still substantial , it is strongly associated with inequality and it restricts women 's career opportunities . |