Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] and " in BNC.

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1 It is one of the most ancient of dye plants , its use being recorded 2,500 years ago , and it is such a strong dye that it will produce a deep pink-brown without a mordant — with alum and tin it supplies red and red-brown .
2 Alternatively , rub the surface with lemon , which helps to keep it smelling fresh and reduces staining .
3 It turns blue and that 's that 's a good test for water .
4 Use hot or warm water and it turns bitter and unpleasant .
5 Continue removing the scum until it turns white and frothy : add a few tablespoons of cold water twice as you skim the surface .
6 He explained : ‘ It sleeps six and I let the other five beds to other pros .
7 In fact , it got worse and became embarrassing , ’ she says .
8 It got worse and worse .
9 So , it got worse and worse and
10 It happened like this : last Saturday , after the farewell party at Nanking University , I came back to the hotel , and packed my things ready to leave for Shanghai , then about 10.30 I started to feel sick , and it got worse and worse and went on and on until I had to wake up Comrade Wu at about 3.30 and ask her to get a doctor .
11 I did n't get up all day till it got dark and Mr Jackson came .
12 went up there first and then so it got better and so it got better and , and Will was marvellous
13 went up there first and then so it got better and so it got better and , and Will was marvellous
14 Towards the end it got better and they worked , it was a bad start , but it got better towards the end .
15 Then it got slower and slower .
16 ‘ But it got louder and louder until I recognised it as Benny Hill 's voice .
17 He 'd play a couple of quiet rounds and then when it got hectic and everyone else wanted to be playing , he 'd stay away from the course and just hit a few balls in practice .
18 and I think as a result of that it , it got disjointed and you , and you could n't follow it through .
19 But as we got older it got harder and harder to talk to him ; he seemed to withdraw .
20 It got hotter and hotter and hotter .
21 ‘ And the thing was , it got funnier and funnier every time he did it , ’ laughs Hislop .
22 Arthur Price chairman John Price says : ‘ 13/0 certainly looks as bright and as cheerful as 18/8 but after it has been in use for a short while it goes dull and then grey and , after a year or so , stains and pitmarks develop which can not be removed . ’
23 However the Southampton Hospital insists that while it discourages smoking and wo n't allow it in the building , they have no ban on heart operations .
24 They had pleaded with the bankruptcy judge to close down Eastern last autumn , but instead he allowed it to remain airborne and continue to run down its cash resources .
25 It flung open and slammed back against the wall .
26 And as if they knew it they sent another flare up into the sky , so that it glowed bright and cheerful as a street lamp above his path of retreat .
27 It involves moral and practical problems which cross political and ethical boundaries .
28 It involves questioning and challenging and testing all views — those that represent the status quo — as well as those clamouring for change .
29 Small-scale and localized in the early nineteenth century , it became large-scale and increasingly concentrated in several main trawler ports as the century wore on .
30 By about 600 ad his authority was acknowledged only in parts of the Italian peninsula , and even there , in the following century , it became remote and ineffectual .
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