Example sentences of "and it [vb past] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It established liaison committees on , for example , matters to do with schools , and it developed liaison arrangements with the Open University and others . |
| 3 | A radio was turned on and it played music , which I found odd . |
| 4 | Every man in it had fought before , it was freshly equipped , and it sought vengeance against the countries that had humbled France in 1814 . |
| 5 | Given Khoneinis constant Anti-American rhetoric , this was quite a success for the United States and it led Ambassador with the new regime . |
| 6 | He was already out there , virtually his spiritual home according to his team-mates back in Taunton , and it made sense to put him on alert . |
| 7 | Something was wrong , terribly wrong , and it concerned Minch . |
| 8 | In the early days there was no cure and it killed AIDS patients the first time they got it . |
| 9 | Dawn was just breaking and I began to see a little more civilisation and it looked sort of right . |
| 10 | From its registration number it was only three years old , and it looked well-kept , the front tyres were new . |
| 11 | He lowered the gun , and it hung limp in his hand , barrel to the floor . |
| 12 | Delia Sutherland was impatient ; he was always this pedantic and it wasted time . |
| 13 | It was er cut out of palm trees and it got palm trees on hundred feet high , both sides of the runway . |
| 14 | ‘ I looked up the tenth anniversary and it said tin , which was a bit limiting . |
| 15 | It was a clear manifestation of the industrial and cultural ethos which the coal companies were fostering : it believed that trades unions should be concerned with industrial issues only , and not wider political goals ; it gave privilege to local autonomy rather than general solidarity ; it favoured compromise with employers ; and it eschewed strike action . |
| 16 | And now it stilled Creggan , and it brought silence to the other eagle . |
| 17 | Newcastle Emlyn Castle was built in approximately 1240 within a loop on the River Teifi and it saw action in 1648 when it was blown up by Cromwell 's men . |
| 18 | At least 2,000,000 people had been made homeless by the war , the report said , and it estimated food aid needs for 1991 as totalling approximately 1,000,000 tonnes . |
| 19 | There could be , the statement affirmed , " an overlap between the secular and the religious " and it expressed concern " about the possible misuse of the proposed legislation to silence lawful dissent and legitimate criticism " . |
| 20 | Julian May 's Jack the Bodiless ( Pan , £4.99 ) was promised for so long that when it finally came out it took everyone by surprise , including the hardback publisher HarperCollins , and it went o.p. within days of publication . |
| 21 | Oh Daddy I went into the upstairs bathroom and turned on the light , it went on and it went ping and then turned off again . |
| 22 | Riven stabbed his knife in deep behind its ear and it went limp . |
| 23 | And it went whoomph ! |
| 24 | r er Northampton and then finally I went to Rushden , and er this top one , , and his mate come out of the toilet , been for a smoke , and er walking by I said hey Les , look at this , and I spun the cam round and it went bang and stopped dead . |
| 25 | I went up the road and it went bang and blew a out the back ! |
| 26 | ‘ It was then that they released the Wheel and it came bowling down the hill not more than ten yards from where I was standing . |
| 27 | The Commission was made up of a wide range of eminent people involved in the existing mental health services , and it took evidence from a variety of those involved in the care of this group . |
| 28 | A unit of radiation dosage , the ‘ roentgen ’ , was not defined until 1928 , and it took time for it to be universally accepted . |
| 29 | I agreed to give a dinner and it took place in my London home some weeks later . |
| 30 | The first bombing was at Bianconese , very near Fontevivo , and it took place at the end of September 1943 . |