Example sentences of "and it [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its yellow eyes were looking at me ; its mouth opened and it made strange sounds at me . |
| 2 | The theory was a good scientific theory , in the sense described in Chapter 1 : it was simple and it made definite predictions that could be tested by observation . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We got out over and we had n't got twenty yards when the flares went up and it became undiluted hell |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | One shop window in Covent Garden was devoted entirely to a display of this book , and it received coveted reviews in the quality press . |
| 8 | It was performed at The Lincoln Centre in New York and it got great reviews . |
| 9 | Mixed development met the sociological dictates of urbanity and community ; it met the planning critics of inter-war sprawl ; and it met architectural requirements of variety in materials ( concrete , brick , wood , pebbles and strong colours ) . |
| 10 | and it said genuine goat . |
| 11 | I looked up the teletext and it said full squad for Manchester United . |
| 12 | And it said medical staff unwilling to take part in operations should refer patients to colleagues who would . |
| 13 | It was inspired by Brendan Foster and it brought international athletics to the town and put it on the map . |
| 14 | The declaration on the formation of the FRY stated that the FRY would be ready to recognize the former Yugoslav republics which had declared independence , after " outstanding questions " had been negotiated , and it denied territorial claims . |
| 15 | A year later further serious violence occurred during the weekend of 10–12 April 1981 in the Brixton area of south London ; this resulted in many injuries and widespread damage , and it attracted enormous media attention . |
| 16 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 17 | The sea-blue eyes gazing back at her were coolly assessing , and it took considerable effort on her part not to look away . |
| 18 | Staff appeared not to care about the unavailable theses , and it took considerable effort to persuade them to check the whereabouts of the missing ones . |
| 19 | The combination of bishopric and monastery was one of the main results of the tenth-century monastic revival , and it had tenuous threads going back to the seventh century . |
| 20 | And it had other things going for it too . |
| 21 | But a frontal attack in the face of barbed wire and entrenched machine-guns was unlikely to succeed , and it guaranteed heavy losses . |
| 22 | And it blew massive holes in Mr Major 's argument that Maastricht means fewer powers for the European Commission — and no common foreign or defence policy . |
| 23 | And these opportunities were very considerable ; later generations might see the eighteenth-century empire as a monument to the constrictions of mercantilism , but at the time people saw it as the largest area of unrestricted trade in the world and it offered excellent prospects for men like the sugar and tobacco merchants of Glasgow . |
| 24 | This was the first practical method of producing colour transparencies , and it utilised minute grains of starch from la pomme de terre . |
| 25 | This was the first practical method of producing colour transparencies , and it utilised minute grains of starch from la pomme de terre . |
| 26 | I find that kind of back-door pressure disgraceful and it caused great concern to many people in my local association . |
| 27 | [ 2 ] The dream vision convention was employed by the Middle English writers for such reasons ; [ 3 ] and it enjoyed great popularity . |
| 28 | Its deliberations had been hurried , its request for evidence stressed the need for a brevity viewed by many as excessive and it lacked sufficient resources to produce a credible alternative to any Government proposals . |
| 29 | Law meant the right ordering of society on earth and it reflected Divine Law . |
| 30 | Their relationship was further strained when Wolfgang threw security to the winds to go to Vienna , and it suffered irreparable damage when a new and more powerful force — in the form of a prospective bride — entered Wolfgang 's life . |