Example sentences of "and it [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I had a friend who used to say that if you burned a candle in your window and it burned all night , then the world would n't end while you were sleeping . ’
2 When it first went off some time ago it would n't go but one day I took I took a jelly out in a glass dish and it bonked this thing and the light came on again .
3 Proctor & gamble and Unilever , the two giants of the detergent industry , were guilty of this practice , and it recommended that advertising be reduced and product prices cut .
4 And it made better grass .
5 Our masters have had to size up the capacity they have at different plants and it made more sense to move production to Leeds
6 Wake , who has taken over from Ron Aitken , said one of BAIE 's strengths was its diversity and it made sound practice , as well as fun , to tap into the network .
7 It was meant to be intimidating , and it served that purpose well .
8 We got out over and we had n't got twenty yards when the flares went up and it became undiluted hell
9 News of his work with the handicapped also leaked out at the centre and it became common knowledge that he was using the OBEX swimming-pool .
10 As one would expect , the composition of precious metal artefacts has always been heavily influenced by economic factors and it became common practice to modify their value by alloying them with baser metals .
11 It helped to develop valuable projects ; it utilized market skills in the implementation of schemes ; and it began that process of integrating central-government departments into corporate entities through which regional problems might be better addressed .
12 Those disciples , they had the storm stilled for them and it got easier sailing .
13 Not even hearing the rolling crackle above , she was conscious only of the moving light , as the footsteps began again and it swung this way and that , searching something out .
14 The party addressed much of its effort to workers and it enrolled few peasant members , yet the peasant question was central to its programme and during the revolution of 1905 it exerted considerable influence in the All-Russian Peasants ' Union .
15 And it succeeded last night , courtesy of Iain Dowie 's excellent strike in the ninth minute of this World Cup Group Three game — and four world-class saves from Wright afterwards .
16 and it said genuine goat .
17 I looked up the teletext and it said full squad for Manchester United .
18 It was inspired by Brendan Foster and it brought international athletics to the town and put it on the map .
19 And Creggan followed her helpless gaze , out past the bars to the great sky itself and it seemed that direction came suddenly to him at last .
20 Charlie 's office was small and poky and lightless and overcrowded , but the number of possible hiding places was limited and it seemed that she-d tried them all .
21 It was not quite what she envisaged for herself but it had the advantage of being cheap and it went some way towards satisfying Grace , who was convinced that London was a den of iniquity waiting to swallow up her unsuspecting daughter .
22 For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun .
23 In any event the civil war was the ultimate sort of turning point which defined that the national government er had a responsibility for ensuring the permanence of the union and it took that responsibility so seriously it was prepared to engage in what was then the bloodiest war in human history .
24 At first they were quite crude and it took little skill and expertise to forge the signature , and then fraudulently put them to financial advantage .
25 He was seventy-eight and it took four ambulance workers and Jack to finally get him in the ambulance .
26 In this early period American railway capital and building energies went mainly into track and engineering , and it took some time for the station to catch up with the grandiose schemes of the companies .
27 Kim Il Sung headed the NKIPC ; the membership was disparate and it took some time for Kim to establish his control .
28 Central Office had great difficulty finding seats for the candidates of the National Democratic Party ( NDP ) , as the BWL had become by 1918 , and it took some time even to find a place for Victor Fisher himself before he was finally installed for Stourbridge .
29 She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say .
30 The sea-blue eyes gazing back at her were coolly assessing , and it took considerable effort on her part not to look away .
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