Example sentences of "and it [verb] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He loved her deeply and it hurt him badly when he learned the truth about her . |
| 2 | She was absolutely indifferent to him , he thought , and it hurt him suddenly . |
| 3 | Edward rented it from a woman who lived abroad , a woman he had never met , and it suited him perfectly . |
| 4 | And it takes me over an hour to dry him . |
| 5 | Mhm I wan na go to because then I get a and it takes me about half an hour to get home . |
| 6 | There 's a lot of traffic here and it takes me quite a bit to cross all the roads to get to where I want . |
| 7 | I 've got to go back and it takes me sometimes twice , sometimes three times when you get all this rubbish that he has to take round . |
| 8 | The soft crust thinks the rotten so-called adult world shops at Next , and it takes itself too seriously ( like any sullen delinquent ) to explore the groovy games of style , experiment and enterprise played by the ‘ kids ’ . |
| 9 | twenty five minutes in a car and it takes you about an , an hour on the bus . |
| 10 | A picture rose in her mind of Dawn enfolded in his arms when they were alone in his surgery , and it tormented her so much that she got up hurriedly and put the little dog in a cage to await Robert 's collection . |
| 11 | Certainty eluded them , and it eludes us still . |
| 12 | Unlike the previous soft glow , this new light had a sharpness about it , and it beckoned him upward like the guiding beam of a lighthouse in a dark stormy sea . |
| 13 | without picking serious note of Freud , it 's a bit like you know discussing space high on gravitational without mentioning Einstein , I mean , you know th that 's wh what people seem to do , and it strikes me as ridiculous . |
| 14 | Yet there was something else there , too — something that she had never seen in him before — and it touched her deeply . |
| 15 | In the hit movie Withnall and I , the two visit Riggindale and it drives them almost to the brink of distraction . |
| 16 | Dropped a tile and it pierced it right the way through . |
| 17 | And it struck me straight away that although the twentieth century as it marched on made us look more and more like Americans , we are Europeans , we always have been Europeans , our roots are there , our culture 's there and of course in the late twentieth century our economic needs , and the geographical links , the electronic links mean that we are there whether we like it or not . |
| 18 | And it struck her again , even more forcefully than before , that Alexander Vass was a hard man to fathom . |
| 19 | Must remember that phrase : he could see it had struck and it struck him too : he paused to give it the silent applause of a mute punctuation . |
| 20 | It does everything both groups typically want , and it does it sensibly and palatably . |
| 21 | Live broadcasting speaks to that particular , definite and identified target , you and me , and it does it now . |
| 22 | She drew in her breath at the simplicity of it , wondering why she had n't thought of it before , and it excited her so much she put forward the suggestion without stopping to think if it was wise . |
| 23 | And it portrays him both accurately and feelingly . |
| 24 | ‘ But I tried being polite for a long time , Aunt Ruth , and it got me nowhere . |
| 25 | But do n't let the lightweight feel fool you — the first time I wore it was during a 70mph mountain winds and driving rain and it kept me both warm and dry . |
| 26 | She responded wildly as he caressed her and it drove him further along the path of passion . |
| 27 | to do it in Postscript format , and it outputs it straight onto the middle of the screen . |
| 28 | And it worried her too ( He might have had an accident — should I phone the police ? ) , almost as much as it angered her ( He might have had the decency to let me know he would n't be in to supper ) . |
| 29 | ‘ The creative use of leisure ’ sociologists called it and it worried them badly that fret-work and bird-watching might be all there was to fulfil people after pressing the buttons at the fully-automatic , atom-powered , closed-circuit-TV-monitored , computer-directed plant for a couple of four-hour shifts a week . |
| 30 | As Louise Hay points out , we do this all the time — and it gets us nowhere . |