Example sentences of "and it [verb] [det] " 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 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | He enjoyed a good relationship with Acheson and it suited both men for Dulles to be closely involved in policy formulation : Acheson because it would diminish at least some of the acrimony in Congress and Dulles because he wished to consolidate his record so that he could become Secretary of State in the next Republican administration . |
| 5 | Fear is the key , and it takes many forms . |
| 6 | A lot of my work includes routing grooves for 5/8in and 3/4in boards , and it takes some time achieving the right width of groove even with the appropriate cutter . |
| 7 | Experience of objects is mediated by the senses , and it takes some time before the child appreciates that objects are best understood not as functions of action and sensation , but as entities which have an existence that is independent of the child 's own actions and experiences . |
| 8 | I am aware , when I go on publicity tours , that the necessity to project yourself , to sell your product , all the time , moves you into the outward and trivial parts of your personality , and it takes some time to get back to being centred , and to finding who you are again within yourself . ’ |
| 9 | The colon is unused to the fibre and it takes some time to adjust . ’ |
| 10 | I collect my things and pack , and it takes less than a minute . |
| 11 | and it takes these batteries and everything and she says I 'll pick them up eleven cock , o'clock on Friday |
| 12 | and it feels all as if it 's numb ? |
| 13 | Roddick calls it the Marcel Proust questionnaire and it asks such unlikely questions as : How would you like to die ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In use I found it to be very acceptable ( to quote Prime Minister Major ) and it ran all the DOS and Windows packages I threw at it — and here 's the rub . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | With 12 players on call from the World Cup compared to the USA 's six , Canada could rely on experience and it made all the difference , especially among the backs where the Eagles paid a heavy price for dropped passes , missed tackles and errant kicks . |
| 19 | For the first time Janine felt that she had an ally , and it made all the difference to her . |
| 20 | Our masters have had to size up the capacity they have at different plants and it made more sense to move production to Leeds |
| 21 | There were n't , we did it singly and it made more people did n't it ? |
| 22 | It was meant to be intimidating , and it served that purpose well . |
| 23 | For the rest of the year , Dataquest counts on recession to put a damper on growth , and it forecasts that shipment growth rates will slow to an average 13% to 14% for the full year , while total revenue increases very slightly . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Terence Hawkes 's Structuralism and Semiotics appeared in 1977 as a timely primer on la nouvelle critique and it presents much information in a readable form . |
| 26 | And it does that because a wind has sprung up , you ca n't see it but you can observe its effect . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | And it stretches all the tissue on this inside , and that 's what makes it sore . |
| 30 | 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 . |