Example sentences of "and it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it granted Mr Gorbachev most of the new powers he had requested ( though it rejected his clumsy proposal for a system of local inspectors to help enforce presidential decrees ) . |
| 2 | A diary helps you to reflect and it aids memory . |
| 3 | His holidays had just begun , and it suited Juliet 's book to let Patrick have him . |
| 4 | When we try the Star and Garter next door it is crammed tighter than a coal bucket , and it belts rap at a thousand watts . |
| 5 | If you are in the river and pee in the water , it can sense your urine and will swim up to lodge in you , swimming up the nearest orifice and sticking out its barbs , which is meant to be excruciatingly painful — and it takes surgery to get one out . |
| 6 | If you write a spreadsheet for somebody else , you might be using a sixty six megahertz four eight six duel processor erm , spaceship , and , somebody is using a steam driven I B M A T or something , and it runs quite acceptably on your machine , a reasonable speed , and you give it to somebody else on that steam driven thing , and it takes ages to do anything , and er , you press a button and they wait half an hour sort of thing . |
| 7 | And it takes ages to call |
| 8 | mhm And they have to buy everything for you , and it takes ages does n't it . |
| 9 | He says Fill her up … and it takes petrol … diesel engines had n't quite been perfected . |
| 10 | So we 've both got it takes me an hour and a quarter to get to Caernarfen and it takes Jan about an hour and a half to get to Leek because they 're such bad roads . |
| 11 | The most common type used by gardeners is drawn through the earth by rotors that dig the soil and it takes practice to get the knack of using it . |
| 12 | In all aspects of pay and promotion the personal evaluation is critical and it takes account not just of performance at the current job but desirable personality traits such as creativity , emotional maturity and ability to cooperate with others . |
| 13 | But when you get to know them all , and it takes years and years , they 're marvellous company . |
| 14 | He does not know what to do , and it takes time to solve the problem . |
| 15 | She 's very young , only a girl really , and it takes time to get used to this funny little country . |
| 16 | It 's like two distinct things , two different worlds , and it takes time to make the transition between them in one sitting . ’ |
| 17 | Quite often all the things that parents want to say go out of their heads and it takes time and confidence in their listener to start to explore the greater areas of concern . |
| 18 | In order to have a current , charge carriers must be accelerated , and it takes time to accelerate particles of finite mass . |
| 19 | yeah I think that 's probably the best thing and gradually the past you 've missed might start fitting into place as it were you know if you , if you keep up with the present , I think that 's probably the best thing so er and , you know , er I know it 's no comfort but these things take time , you know it takes time to get socialized into something and it takes time to get used to a way of working . |
| 20 | And it takes nerve to walk and sit to order in the glare of the lights with all those people watching . |
| 21 | Bereavement is the one battle in which people dice with a death that has already occurred in order to survive all the dangers of the loss and deprivation it brings , and it takes courage to stand shoulder to shoulder with someone who is in the thick of it . |
| 22 | Once play activity becomes formalized , directed , structured by rules , and it takes place in a defined space ( ‘ field of play ’ ) , it moves into the related but distinct area of games . |
| 23 | Searching for papers can be annoying to the person being called and it wastes time and money . |
| 24 | This was carried out by Sachs ( 1967 ) and it compared recall of sentences which had just been heard with recall of sentences which had been heard earlier in a passage . |
| 25 | Another critic who took up the moral cudgels against the ‘ spicy ’ jokes and suggestive songs described how ‘ this kind of garbage is part and parcel of the repertoire of nearly every music hall in the kingdom … it puts decency and clean-living at a discount , and it glorifies immorality all round ’ . |
| 26 | The forest is important as a source of food , since some gardens are situated in it , and it supplies palm wine , fibre for making clothes , wood for house construction and also a variety of sacred medicines . |
| 27 | the trouble with this is it 's an American book so it 's a bit , I call it biased , erm on erm the betrayal of children on , on the way that they 're not in childhood for very long and it blames literacy , that the more the literate the child becomes |
| 28 | It blames the poor , it blames the unemployed , it blames industry and it blames commerce for the mess that we 're in and never says anything about itself . |
| 29 | It established liaison committees on , for example , matters to do with schools , and it developed liaison arrangements with the Open University and others . |
| 30 | A radio was turned on and it played music , which I found odd . |