Example sentences of "and it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had a friend who used to say that if you burned a candle in your window and it burned all night , then the world would n't end while you were sleeping . ’ |
| 2 | He enjoyed a good relationship with Acheson and it suited both men for Dulles to be closely involved in policy formulation : Acheson because it would diminish at least some of the acrimony in Congress and Dulles because he wished to consolidate his record so that he could become Secretary of State in the next Republican administration . |
| 3 | The Sidney works and others on great estates did their own coaling , though Ralph Hogge of Buxted purchased fuel from independent colliers and it formed one of the biggest items in his accounts . |
| 4 | Then , quite suddenly , the monkey 's body clocked kicked in and it fell asleep . |
| 5 | Some movement , the barely audible sound of a door opening and closing , then the monkey 's body clock got the better of it again and it fell asleep . |
| 6 | So he stopped and then it fell , and it fell short of the hundred pound they wanted . |
| 7 | He named it Stegman ( a steg is a male goose ) and it spent most of the summer on the reservoir but always wintered at West Birk Hatt . |
| 8 | The only ‘ clean ’ greyhound in the race , run at Canterbury this month , was the 5–2 favourite and it finished last . |
| 9 | in fact all of our horses main meeting , me mother and Jim they were all up and running and if , they were front runners , you know and they were all finished and James he backed a two hundred to one shot , I says you 're joking , aye it was up there with 'em mind and it finished twelfth , he said well it was a good bet |
| 10 | When it first went off some time ago it would n't go but one day I took I took a jelly out in a glass dish and it bonked this thing and the light came on again . |
| 11 | In use I found it to be very acceptable ( to quote Prime Minister Major ) and it ran all the DOS and Windows packages I threw at it — and here 's the rub . |
| 12 | The report concluded that the passing of information to paramilitaries did take place , but on a very limited scale , and it recommended procedural and technical improvements . |
| 13 | Proctor & gamble and Unilever , the two giants of the detergent industry , were guilty of this practice , and it recommended that advertising be reduced and product prices cut . |
| 14 | Its yellow eyes were looking at me ; its mouth opened and it made strange sounds at me . |
| 15 | With 12 players on call from the World Cup compared to the USA 's six , Canada could rely on experience and it made all the difference , especially among the backs where the Eagles paid a heavy price for dropped passes , missed tackles and errant kicks . |
| 16 | For the first time Janine felt that she had an ally , and it made all the difference to her . |
| 17 | The theory was a good scientific theory , in the sense described in Chapter 1 : it was simple and it made definite predictions that could be tested by observation . |
| 18 | And it made better grass . |
| 19 | Its lights flickered at random and it made odd beeping noises . |
| 20 | Our masters have had to size up the capacity they have at different plants and it made more sense to move production to Leeds |
| 21 | There were n't , we did it singly and it made more people did n't it ? |
| 22 | The new consumer durables ( TV , washing machines , refrigerators ) were much in demand , and it made sound economic sense to enjoy the use and benefit of such things at once and pay for them out of rising real incomes . |
| 23 | Wake , who has taken over from Ron Aitken , said one of BAIE 's strengths was its diversity and it made sound practice , as well as fun , to tap into the network . |
| 24 | It was meant to be intimidating , and it served that purpose well . |
| 25 | A spokeswoman for the album said : ‘ Last year there was a compilation charity record released to coincide with the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and it sold 100,000 copies . |
| 26 | I took the pins from my hair to dry it a bit and it sprang free . |
| 27 | Of liberal disposition , he opened Thirlestane House to the public and it became one of the greatest attractions of Cheltenham . |
| 28 | Other instruments were invented which recorded the actions of the heart and the flow in the vessels , and it became possible to investigate how the whole system was regulated throughout all the different activities of life . |
| 29 | Loans were handled as the National Debt rather than the royal debt and it became possible to raise long-term loans with the authority of Parliament behind them , and even to float loans on terms which meant that the principal would never be repaid but that , because the interest would be paid regularly forever , it would be possible to treat the bond for the debt as an asset which could be bought and sold . |
| 30 | As land gradually ceased to be the major source of middle class wealth , and as salaries became more important , so marriage ceased to be an essentially dynastic settlement between two kin groups and it became possible to grant women more freedom , both emotional ( to marry whom they wished ) and legal , within marriage . |