Example sentences of "and it [vb past] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Chuck us a line ! " he shouted , and watched in growing rage as Rower got it caught round his foot , and it fell far short . |
| 2 | Even in a city like London , with no large industrial base and a preponderance of casual labourers , we can see in the last half of the nineteenth century , as Gareth Stedman Jones has put it , the ‘ emergence of a working class culture which showed itself impervious to middle class attempts to guide it ’ , even as it remained politically conservative , and it developed deeply rooted family patterns of its own . |
| 3 | Right , here we went at twice the speed , and it finished up half the time . |
| 4 | He died at noon , and it meant so much to me that my friends were there . |
| 5 | New Zealand has another Irish pub — and it sold over 50 kegs of Guinness in its first three weeks , well ahead of any other beer it stocks . |
| 6 | Such was its popularity that two reprints were ready in May and June of the same year ; Faber and Faber published the poem as a pamphlet in September , and it sold almost 12,000 copies . |
| 7 | Over the next four years , no work of any kind was carried out and it became increasingly apparent that senior officials had decided that The Grange should not be restored after all . |
| 8 | Major financiers and industrialists , notably those in St Petersburg , were made acutely conscious of their dependence on ministerial goodwill and it became increasingly common for senior officials to take up directorships on the boards of leading companies . |
| 9 | During the 1960s most of the Western world enjoyed steady economic growth and it became increasingly evident that companies ' main accounting apparatus ( financial reports in the form of income statements and balance sheets and annual budgets ) provided an inadequate basis for thinking ahead . |
| 10 | The wind died down and it became perfectly calm . |
| 11 | He was always inviting me to little supper parties and so on , and it became so noticeable that other people began to make snide comments . |
| 12 | Using word processors was already standard practice for us and it became rapidly apparent that desktop publishing was the way to go , so far as production systems were concerned . |
| 13 | A cold , harsh light struck through deep wells in the banks of cloud ; then these wells filled up and it became almost dark . |
| 14 | When one studied the Old Testament closely — and it became almost dangerous not to do so — it was apparent that prayers might not be answered , and that the just might fall in battle . |
| 15 | Bargains began to be made for the first time , and it became readily apparent to the men that whatever rights they thought they had lost , had been transposed by an orderly system which benefited them as well as the Mineral Lord . |
| 16 | Soon after making The Public Enemy Cagney was to publicize his battle with Warner Bros over the roles he was being made to play and it became very evident that he was a shrewd and realistic businessman who perfectly understood his commercial and artistic value to the studios . |
| 17 | Then the trees closed in and it became very silent . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Moreover , after 1905 the press was increasingly adept at escaping censorship , and it became more assertive . |
| 20 | ‘ I say them two or three times and it became more obvious each time I say them that they had a real understanding of what it was they were trying to do musically . |
| 21 | Each time the workmen saw me , they offered a ride and it became more difficult to refuse , until on the sixth day I weakened . |
| 22 | This time the supervision was stricter , and it became more difficult for me to pass my butter ration on to someone else , to pour Ovaltine down the sink behind the matron 's back , or to dispose of extra food by means of the lavatory . |
| 23 | I 'm talking about the the overshoot , and my comments about greenfield sites were related to period eighty one to ninety two , and it became quite clear during the eighties that the sketch plan green belt or development was at that time , through the eighties , was by and large abutting onto the urban area , that er through the eighties what everybody understood to the sketch plan green belt was tight up against er the urban area , so in resisting urban greenfield sites erm on the urban edge through the eighties the County Council were recognizing the greenbelt constraints . |
| 24 | And then , as numbers increased and it became less difficult for non-Christians to come , we saw several wonderful conversions . |
| 25 | It was something Charles Paris had never before experienced , and it felt very strange . |
| 26 | Leeds did n't play too badly , though defensively — as throughout 1992–3 away- we were bad , but we lost 2–0 and it felt really crap because Everton were so jammy to win it . |
| 27 | She was in her bed and it felt about two o'clock in the morning . |
| 28 | Its hooves were crayoned jet black and it looked oddly mischievous , slightly malicious . |
| 29 | Calgary , took a train over the Rockies to Vancouver and then a cruise ship up to Alaska and , and back via Vancouver and you saw the erm ice floes er dropping off and er er seals and that , dolphins and that and it looked pretty good . |
| 30 | I was explaining to Jim how we could do that and it looked pretty straightforward so or , or not . |