Example sentences of "and it [verb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is probably the largest of all the categories of cheeses and it encompasses many of the traditional British varieties ( see The Great British Eight , p86 ) as well as continental cheeses such as Edam , Chaumes and Pyrenees . |
| 2 | OK , the test is artificial , but it 's a good way to have a look at the main things an integrated package should do , and it answers some of the questions you should ask before you buy . |
| 3 | The Sidney works and others on great estates did their own coaling , though Ralph Hogge of Buxted purchased fuel from independent colliers and it formed one of the biggest items in his accounts . |
| 4 | Leopards still die for their skins and it takes five to seven leopards to provide the material for one fur coat ! |
| 5 | and it feels all as if it 's numb ? |
| 6 | If this occurs on or close to the skin , it can be observed as redness and it feels warm to the touch . |
| 7 | So he stopped and then it fell , and it fell short of the hundred pound they wanted . |
| 8 | He named it Stegman ( a steg is a male goose ) and it spent most of the summer on the reservoir but always wintered at West Birk Hatt . |
| 9 | At first it was not entirely clear where the word ‘ Hooligan ’ had sprung from — and it remains unclear to this day — or exactly what it meant , other than some kind of novel reference to street violence and ruffianism . |
| 10 | DG said that while it was n't satisfied with its overall results , it was encouraged by the continued success of its AViiON family of Unix computers , which showed significant growth over the year-ago quarter , and it remains cautious for the short-term because of the weak worldwide economy and because it sees no evidence that industry-wide pricing pressures will abate in the near future . |
| 11 | Commenting on its reduced second quarter loss ( figures , page seven ) , Data General Corp said that while it was n't satisfied with its overall results , it was encouraged by the continued success of its AViiON family of Unix computers , which showed significant growth over the year-ago quarter , and it remains cautious for the short-term because of the weak worldwide economy and because it sees no evidence that industry-wide pricing pressures will abate in the near future ; the Westboro company is able to shrug off the small but steady and grinding losses because it still had $196.2m in cash and marketable securities at the end of the quarter . |
| 12 | The Niuas , as the trio are called , are closer to both Samoa and Fiji than to the main Tongan group , and it remains one of the odder quirks of Polynesian history that the islands belong to Tonga at all . |
| 13 | New components are added every year and it remains one of the most comprehensive and effective courses available . |
| 14 | For the time being , however , he did not discard his academic first-class honours and it remains one of the oddities of his life that the first published work of the future Nazi propagandist was a scholarly contribution to the Revue of English Studies in 1928 : ‘ A Note on the Mid Back Slack Unrounded Vowel [ a ] in the English of Today . ’ |
| 15 | The coat is thick , soft and fairly long , especially in winter , and the thickness is retained in cold weather ; the coat is shed in warmer weather and it remains sleek in hot climates . |
| 16 | Of liberal disposition , he opened Thirlestane House to the public and it became one of the greatest attractions of Cheltenham . |
| 17 | The very corpses were thought to be contagious ; in some parishes attempts were made to prevent their burial in consecrated ground , and it became necessary for the parson to conduct the service under cover of darkness . |
| 18 | Her previous recording with Sir Charles Groves featured Crusell 's Second Concerto , in which she was partnered by the English Chamber Orchestra , and it became evident from our conversation that she had been especially happy to work with Sir Charles once again , in this new recording of English music for clarinet and orchestra . |
| 19 | After that many Republican law-makers felt compelled to go along with it — and it became harder for critics to attack the reforms as ‘ socialised medicine ’ . |
| 20 | Then he was dropped five games later and it became obvious to all that the goalkeeping hero of the finest days the club had ever known could not be long in going — and on 16 October 1973 he moved over to Orient for a £30,000 fee . |
| 21 | Wilson would talk at great length and it became clear to me that the number of people in whom he could confide safely was very small ; in fact it was clear that he had few , if any , complete political friends . |
| 22 | Her shoulders sagged in defeat and it became clear to the watching man that she accepted their veracity . |
| 23 | Faith and I also flew around the pattern and it felt great despite small problems with the tape out on the aircraft to protect the patches stitched on in Bangkok . |
| 24 | ‘ It was warm and personal and it felt right for him , ’ says Marie . |
| 25 | Being submissive is the co point where what happens when you 're submissive you keep it inside you do n't feel you 're worthy enough or you have n't got you have n't got the self esteem to rate yourself as being able to have what it is that you want , so you keep it inside and you do n't say anything and then you walk away should 've said this and should 've said that and all it does is eat away at you and it does that to you physically as well I mean scientific tests are already showing now that physically these sort of things you do if often be submissive enough what that does it pretty much helps helps you to eat your body up from the inside and causes physical problems which pretty much do that anyway . |
| 26 | Marriage is one of the elements which leads to the formation and the maintenance of the inequality between classes and it does this at the expense of women . |
| 27 | My foot was giving me murder , and it got worse during the next few days , but I still had to go out and fodder the cattle . |
| 28 | I guess Waldo must have been the codename for CorelDRAW 2 during development and it got stuck in the code . |
| 29 | They made their way across to the heavy door and it swung open at their touch . |
| 30 | There was a great measure of bounce in Peter Marron 's pitch , and it lasted most of the match . |