Example sentences of "and it [vb past] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plaintiff , acting under section 222 of the Local Government Act 1972 ‘ to promote or protect the interests of the inhabitants in its area , ’ brought an action for declarations that the dock company and its sublessees operating in the port had created a public nuisance and it sought injunctions restraining them from permitting heavy goods vehicles coming to and from the port between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m . |
| 2 | As Endill ate his breakfast he felt a thousand eyes watch him put his cold piece of toast into his mouth and it sent shivers down his spine . |
| 3 | Zulei pointed the blade towards her and it sent lances of red and green light into Jezrael 's eyes . |
| 4 | It did a particularly good job of informing people about the issues — especially if they were tabloid press readers , who could get relatively little information from the press ; and it made electors feel more warmth and commitment to the party system and party leaders generally . |
| 5 | But certain individuals clearly played crucial roles and it meant names had to be mentioned . |
| 6 | EDS subsequently bought out Bedaux 's share of EDS-Bedaux and it became EDS Spain . |
| 7 | The economic realities meant that Prussia 's weight was thus far greater than the constitutional arrangements suggested : the Zollverein was administered by a sort of Council of Ministers which met annually in one of the capitals , and it took decisions by unanimity . |
| 8 | But fortunately the traffic was heavy and it took ages to reach Bethnal Green . |
| 9 | big one and it took ages to dry off , yeah . |
| 10 | ‘ In European countries , it took the working class years and years before they fully realized the fact that they formed a distinct and , under existing conditions , a permanent class of modern society ; and it took years again until this class-consciousness led them to form themselves into a distinct political party , independent of , and opposed to , all the old political parties formed by the various sections of the ruling classes . |
| 11 | And she stared at it , glad to have been told that it was not good , for she could make nothing of it : it stood about five feet high , on a stone lump , and it had holes in it and stretching arms . |
| 12 | and it had things on for children like elocution classes and |
| 13 | And it had plates inside er it used to cut the the the the into like big chips . |
| 14 | And it had slats on it . |
| 15 | I 'll have a root in garage cos ours , you know when we had ours ripped out , Steve stuffs everything in garage and shed , and it had legs on , I 'll have a look , that 's a sixteen inch . |
| 16 | And it exposed divisions which rocked the EC to its roots . |
| 17 | The Roman town enclosure , marked off from its environment by the foundation rite , had itself been sacred ; and it contained temples , the sacred edifices of public worship . |
| 18 | Another thing they have in common , sadly , is violence at screenings ; one kid was shot dead outside the cinema on Juice 's opening night and it caused distributors Paramount to withdraw advertising for the movie . |
| 19 | On Jan. 7 , 1989 , Saudi Aramco announced the discovery of a new high quality oil and gas field at al-Ragheeb , 123 km south-east of Riyadh ; this was the third in recent months , and it raised expectations that the three wells were part of a single huge field , which , if proven , would increase Saudi Arabia 's existing reserves by 10 per cent . |
| 20 | It delineated permitted forms of sexuality , such as those directed towards economically necessary levels of reproduction , and it regulated sexualities which exceeded these limits . |
| 21 | The vane is sometimes called the ‘ finger ’ or ‘ flyboard ’ and it gave farmers an opportunity to display their individuality . |
| 22 | The sun had moved behind the rooftops and it cast shadows halfway up the little houses on the opposite side of the turning . |
| 23 | Antrim went into the Limerick match with a restructured attack , and it paid dividends with centre half forward Gary O'Kane and Terence McNaughton hurling superbly , and Paul McKillen stealing the show in midfield . |
| 24 | This provided a model for the evolution of African landscapes that depended upon parallel slope retreat and the coalescence of pediplains , and it stimulated canons of landscape evolution ( King , 1953 ) and the extension of the model to many areas of the earth 's surface in The Morphology of the Earth ( King , 1962 ) . |
| 25 | The newly amended Constitution provided for a " plurality of political parties " as the " foundation of the political system " , and it deleted references to the leading role of the PDPA . |
| 26 | Regeneration of energy back into the industry was healthy and it created jobs for young people in the industry ’ . |