Example sentences of "and it [verb] [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.

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1 Party meetings continued to be held at the Carlton and it played a greater part in holding the party together when the Liberal Unionists joined .
2 The current held it fast there , and it drifted no farther .
3 And it works the better as the fingers slide and touch and play while you close your eyes and empty your head of every other sensation being fed into it .
4 The subsequent history of the town is confused ; by 1564 its trade was said to be in decline , and it sustained a further blow when William 's son retired to the fine house he had built at Shaw on the outskirts of the borough , leaving his men to sing ruefully :
5 I have been living in the same bungalow now for 10 years , and it seems no easier now than it was 10 years ago to find staff .
6 This index compares equal numbers of elements , and it gives a better postcranial/cranial comparison than the preceding index unless there has been preferential destruction of the jaws .
7 For this he was profoundly grateful and it stopped the worse of the panics .
8 For example , its Radar charts are suitable for displaying measurements involving angles — such as the response of an aerial — and it includes a wider range of fit types for plotting points or fitting trend lines than most spreadsheets and has options such as moving averages .
9 Miranda had a skewed air , her dark curls sprang up on her head so that the younger girl noticed little black hairs running down the vertebrae of her neck to the nape ; there was a feral shine and speed to her too , something uncontained , and it scared the younger girl .
10 It aims to expand the energy supply , and it has a broader choice of energy sources .
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