Example sentences of "and it [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it fell to bits . |
| 2 | Barton failed to clear and it fell to Preece , who fired in his third goal of the season . |
| 3 | ‘ In those days the boys went into the church , the army , and so on down the family , and it fell to Charlie to go to the colonies . |
| 4 | However the good financial years had ended , and it fell to Franklin to break the bad news that Blackpool 's trams and buses would actually make a loss in 1954–5 . |
| 5 | A spokesman for West Mercia police said : ‘ Mr Haigh 's car flew into the air with the impact and it burst into flames when it hit the ground . |
| 6 | Old Betsy blew on the crinkled taper and it burst into flame . |
| 7 | Half a dozen beams of concentrated laser light converged on it , and it burst into fragments . |
| 8 | Customs officers substituted the drugs with another substance as the consignment arrived and it continued to Scott 's house where he was arrested . |
| 9 | The water mill was sited at Mill beck and it continued in use until the 1860s . |
| 10 | It went and it sent to sooth |
| 11 | It gusted around chimneys and roofs , and it gusted through Newington Butts . |
| 12 | The condition was offputting and it sold below estimate for $48,000 ( £30,000 ; est. $60,000–80,000 ) . |
| 13 | It was the first time he 'd ever slept with a woman and it felt like burglary . |
| 14 | Arrived midday and it felt like heaven . |
| 15 | ‘ St Louis Music was one of the companies I went to see at that time , and it felt like Ampeg , especially , was home for me . |
| 16 | And it began with A ? |
| 17 | The jet was sleek , even more luxurious than the limousine — and it belonged to Nicolo . |
| 18 | IT WAS a meeting of the Lady and the Tramp and it looked like fun . |
| 19 | They could n't catch this stallion : it was in a loose box and it got on top of the chap who 'd been leading it . |
| 20 | And here 's the record A Hundred Children do n't forget the er the C D By Request it 's it 's just out and it got to number one this morning in the video charts . |
| 21 | The message got round and it got round Haddon Hall like wildfire that I wanted David Bowie to be a cabaret star . |
| 22 | Wherever responsibility for the mistakes lay — and it lay with Churchill and the British as much as with the Free French — the failure was a colossal humiliation for de Gaulle , because it showed an imperial administration utterly loyal to Vichy and more than capable of repelling the Free French . |
| 23 | The fog had made her eye-black run and it lay in ridges in the lines under her eyes ; her hair was hanging in strands from under her hat . |
| 24 | And it said at prices we can a you can |
| 25 | and it said about tin cans and aluminium and that and it was costing them less excuse me to use recycled you know er used aluminium |
| 26 | and er , it was gone eleven I would of thought , anyway he stopped and I slept like a log , got up at twenty past six , but erm , it 's a strange thing because one of those came last evening and it parked outside George 's , now I said yesterday , when Alan goes to work , it 's not long after six normally to go up to London and that |
| 27 | The Plan worked by setting targets for certain key sectors of the economy ( such as steel , electricity and cement ) rather than by close state direction , it tended to foster the return to industrial predominance of capitalist businessmen , and it relied on loans from abroad , particularly from America . |
| 28 | ‘ I felt I did everything right , like the simple things of making the right contact , but I was striking it into the wind and it seemed to tail off at the last minute . ’ |
| 29 | And it seemed to Dalgliesh an ironic twist of fate that it should be he , whom Berowne had shown a disposition to trust , who should now be travelling to begin that inexorable process of violation . |
| 30 | ‘ Did you enjoy seeing your father 's studio ? ’ she suddenly asked and it seemed to Jenna that not only did Alain stiffen alarmingly but Marguerite appeared to ice over . |