Example sentences of "and it [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know that giving a man on a ventilator morphine in high doses , enough to cause general anaesthesia , is risking his life , and it distracts me to think about whether or not it 's ethical . |
| 2 | He seemed so nice and dependable — just the sort of person one would like for a brother — and it hurt her to think that he might be double-faced . |
| 3 | Dimly , Mrs Palichuk perceived that she was in the way , and it hurt her . |
| 4 | He loved her deeply and it hurt him badly when he learned the truth about her . |
| 5 | She was absolutely indifferent to him , he thought , and it hurt him suddenly . |
| 6 | He watched her eyes fire with the old , familiar irony , and it hurt him like a blade . |
| 7 | If a boat heeled right over it 's not good for the boat and it slows you down , it is far better to reef , the technique is just the same afloat as it was ashore . |
| 8 | and it slows you down , and it goes in out and like that |
| 9 | I found the way here when I was a boy , and it spoils you for the human world . |
| 10 | She wore a linen knee-length frock the colour of sand , and it suited her . |
| 11 | She was wearing the blue and green dress and it suited her every bit as well Claudia had thought it would . |
| 12 | It had been styled rather well , as though she 'd gone to a really good hairdresser and it suited her , was soft over her forehead and short at the back . |
| 13 | Edward rented it from a woman who lived abroad , a woman he had never met , and it suited him perfectly . |
| 14 | It was traditional , and it suited them . |
| 15 | At one primary school I was asked a question that made the teacher look worried , and it baffled me . |
| 16 | And it takes them twelve hours to do this job . |
| 17 | This this this is because the the Department of the Environment lost the paperwork for a year erm because apparently the Home Office are un incapable of reading documents unless they 're in order , and they take them in order and it takes them a year to read them . |
| 18 | It 's long and shiny and it takes me ages to do it . |
| 19 | There 's a lot of traffic here and it takes me quite a bit to cross all the roads to get to where I want . |
| 20 | And it takes me over an hour to dry him . |
| 21 | got a lot of cards and it takes me a long time to do it |
| 22 | I 've got to go back and it takes me sometimes twice , sometimes three times when you get all this rubbish that he has to take round . |
| 23 | Mhm I wan na go to because then I get a and it takes me about half an hour to get home . |
| 24 | There is still a bus and it takes us to that hotel on the port . |
| 25 | The embarrassing thing is that we 're all very right people so the place is a mess , er , and it takes us a quarter of a day before we realise that we 've been burgled , because things are actually slightly neater than when we left the previous day . |
| 26 | And it takes it must take a lot longer to produce a plane like the Tornado and a Spitfire or a Lancaster in erm the days of erm nineteen forty three |
| 27 | So if you select all the text again , shift F ten , and press the alt space bar , then all of that formatting is removed and it takes you back to your text as it was . |
| 28 | And if you get fed up of moving text one tab stop at a time if you go alt P you then actually remove all of the paragraph formatting that you add and it takes you back to your starting position . |
| 29 | and it takes you back right what else did I take I took nine things |
| 30 | Just turn right up there and it takes you up to the bottom of the M10 . |