Example sentences of "and it [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bishops then turned up the pressure in a search for an equaliser , and it nearly came on seventy minutes as yet another debut man , Tommy Callanan blasted the ball against the underside of the ball from literally yards out when it was easier to score . |
| 2 | ( c ) Branscombe A village in two parts ; in the 9th century it was owned by King Alfred and it later belonged to the Benedictine Abbey in Exeter . |
| 3 | It was a clever wheeze , great fun to work , and it probably succeeded in neutralizing the German espionage threat . |
| 4 | And the , the water to bathe in came from the local river and er it was very very sandy and it just looked like mud that you were having to get in and do your bath . |
| 5 | No I , I , I had one like that , I really liked that and it just looked like that . |
| 6 | He 's never been particularly happy about being in the group and it just came to a head . ’ |
| 7 | I sat there in ITF 's London offices , listening to the problem and it just came to me . ’ |
| 8 | He came back to school after Christmas with 4 of them stuffed in the back of his mini and it just went from there . |
| 9 | And then I began to become very worried about it and it just happened by chance that one Friday morning I heard a programme on Radio Brighton , and it was Doctor Wisbey speaking about dyslexia , and it dawned on me immediately that my son was dyslexia . |
| 10 | So it was , the prophecy was written then by Daniel for our , for our time and it just happened in our , because you know er , when he was er , when he finished the book write written and he said I have seen the , the , the erm visions and I 've heard the voice , but I , and I 've written down what I was told to do , but I do not understand and then the voice said to him well close that down , that book is not for you to understand , the generations that it 's written for , it 's written for the end of the times , they will come to understand it , and you see we actually witnessing what 's happening |
| 11 | ‘ We had been playing a lot of country and blues songs before we started to play a couple of Hendrix numbers in the set and it just caught on so we added more , ’ said Slim . |
| 12 | Such thinking was behind the absurd argument that the police should be restrained from giving hot pursuit to stolen cars , and it also lay behind much of the nit-picking objection to the Bill that we heard from the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook . |
| 13 | And it also managed to chip some of the woodwork , curious to think that I was offered as war damage compensation five pounds to re-case the piano , you could n't of had it repolished for five pounds , but thinking was working class people should n't have pianos , I 'm certain that was at the back of , of the gentleman whose job it was to evaluate war damage , he certainly raised his eyebrows every time we told him , what either a piece of furniture or crockery or cutlery which had been destroyed had cost and he was so foolish after er the house had been almost flattened as de demand bills as proof of evidence that your figures were correct |
| 14 | There seemed little point in launching into the saga of her engagement , and it also seemed like an ideal opportunity to tell Piers obliquely that she was n't emotionally involved with him . |
| 15 | A plan of it had appeared in the Architects ' Journal the previous Friday , and it also appeared in The Times the morning after the Prince 's speech . |
| 16 | The 1832 act aimed to give the " middle orders " in society political influence and it also provided for a framework within which landed wealth and industrial wealth could adjust their conflicts of interest without resort to force . |
| 17 | It did to some extent aggregate demands and turn them into viable policy issues , and it also acted as a downward channel of communication , explaining and rationalizing government policies in the hope of their greater acceptance by the citizens . |
| 18 | It was unnaturally neat , and it carefully refrained from revealing any signs of individuality . |
| 19 | Further calculations supported this view , and it soon came to be adopted generally . |
| 20 | At the end of the luncheon Major Ronald Ferguson auctioned the brooch designed by Clive Ranger and generously donated , and it finally went to Mr Galen Weston 's bid of £8,500 . |
| 21 | A goal had to come , and it duly arrived in a moment of magic after 33 minutes . |
| 22 | Needless to say , I never wore the hat and it eventually went into one of my charity bags . |
| 23 | By the late 1960s Pakistan had ceased to participate in military exercises within the framework of SEATO and CENTO and it eventually withdrew from SEATO . |
| 24 | But he took the evening paper suggestion more seriously , and it eventually emerged as the London Daily News , which was changed ambitiously at the last minute into Britain 's first twenty-four-hour ‘ rolling newspaper ’ , aimed at pulling both evening and morning sales . |
| 25 | They had had this kind of conversation before and it always ended with her frustrated and him defiant . |
| 26 | We steered away from neutrality and headed for the magnificence of the Alps in the moonlight ; I always wondered if the Stirling would clear the Matterhorn and it always did with plenty to spare . |
| 27 | From its outset , Operation Barbarossa assumed a class character , and it quickly escalated into a ‘ war of hatred ’ . |
| 28 | I told him that I did n't mix with them and it never came into my life or my conversation . ’ |
| 29 | Provided she could buy anything she wanted , when she wanted — and it never occurred to her to do otherwise — Louise was happy . |
| 30 | But the secular mind looked to them a starved mind , desolate of passion because robbed of faith , and it never occurred to them to doubt that religion possesses and monopolises the spiritual life . |