Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They recorded one album , and bootlegs reveal it to be a rough but fascinating affair , veering wildly between respectful renditions of traditional classics and slightly embarrassing Beatles pastiches . |
| 2 | A transitional coalition government led by Popov and comprising the BSP , the UDF , the BZNS and independents replaced it on Dec. 20 [ see pp. 37865 ; 37923 ] . |
| 3 | The lease did guarantee the rights of these Hindu residents to cross Tin Bigha into India , but the transfer had nevertheless generated widespread opposition among local Hindus , and attempts to block it through a series of court cases , until in 1990 the Indian Supreme Court ruled the transfer constitutional . |
| 4 | If the bat 's brain hears an echo from another bat 's cry , and attempts to incorporate it into the picture of the world that it has previously built up , it will make no sense . |
| 5 | Jeffrey 's family and supporters suspected it to be a plot hatched by Captain Lake and his friends . |
| 6 | In the ninth century , one poet praised its beauty , while another drowned in it ; salt-traders and vintners plied it as a matter of routine ; nobles and religious communities with estates on both sides of it had boats ready for regular crossings and landing-stages where their men could send off surplus produce for sale and unload imports for their masters ' consumption ; Vikings contemplated arduous upstream journeys , but quick getaways ; Charles the Bald , worried over strategic problems , planned the river 's blocking , and policing , and also exploited the symbolic possibilities of meetings at Orléans , Fleury , Cosne , Meung , Pouilly to which nobles must come from Aquitaine by crossing the river while Charles himself received his visitors on the Frankish side . |
| 7 | Silage was found mainly on the larger units as the cost of machinery and buildings put it outwith the scope of the small family and part-time farmers . |
| 8 | So beautiful is this emotion that some scientists and poets regard it as the elixir of life and pursue it for no other reason . |
| 9 | When Symphony was originally launched in July 1984 it was the first integrated business software package and the fact that it comprised a spreadsheet , word processing , database , graphics and communications led it to be acclaimed as having a good user interface and being a very complex and powerful program . |
| 10 | The WI also voted , ’ she said , ‘ and members wanted it to be retained . ’ |
| 11 | Often only the absence of sabres and bullets differentiated it from full-scale war . |
| 12 | Evidencve of the original hospital is fading as new building and departments take it into the next century . |
| 13 | In this sense as a system it was a house built of sand which could scarcely have lasted as long as Bukharin and others wished it to . |
| 14 | Some critics question its sustainability and others view it as a sop to pacify the poor . |
| 15 | The very shabbiness of Hamley Hall in Wives and Daughters endears it to the reader ; its neglected beauty makes it a home as the grand and prosperous Towers is not . |
| 16 | A new sensitivity to the subject is suggested by the series of laws and practices concerning it in the nineteenth century . |
| 17 | Unlike most animals , mussels do not expend energy searching for food They wait for the tides and currents to bring it to them . |
| 18 | Not only were the boys patient in explaining fishing techniques to their obviously ignorant librarian , but when they questioned each other 's accuracy , they presented an argument and facts to support it in a calm and friendly manner . |