Example sentences of "and it [vb past] [det] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For the first time Janine felt that she had an ally , and it made all the difference to her . |
| 9 | Our masters have had to size up the capacity they have at different plants and it made more sense to move production to Leeds |
| 10 | There were n't , we did it singly and it made more people did n't it ? |
| 11 | It was meant to be intimidating , and it served that purpose well . |
| 12 | It helped to develop valuable projects ; it utilized market skills in the implementation of schemes ; and it began that process of integrating central-government departments into corporate entities through which regional problems might be better addressed . |
| 13 | Not even hearing the rolling crackle above , she was conscious only of the moving light , as the footsteps began again and it swung this way and that , searching something out . |
| 14 | The party addressed much of its effort to workers and it enrolled few peasant members , yet the peasant question was central to its programme and during the revolution of 1905 it exerted considerable influence in the All-Russian Peasants ' Union . |
| 15 | There was a great measure of bounce in Peter Marron 's pitch , and it lasted most of the match . |
| 16 | Allison would respond by becoming moody and it soured many of the sessions . |
| 17 | It 's loving-kindness and simplicity , and it lay all the time in your pictures , implicit in every petal and every jug you ever painted . ’ |
| 18 | The winter floods had tumbled it and it lay half in , half out , of the water . |
| 19 | She leant her painted face back to look at the two men standing at the sideboard , and it said much for George Banks who , turning to the old lady , said , ‘ I feel you would always be welcome in whatever company you choose , ma'am . ’ |
| 20 | On the facing page , however , under the headline ‘ Acid Burned a Hole in my Genes ’ , Joe Meltz reported on American research — later discredited — suggesting that LSD caused chromosomal damage , and It followed that up with a two-page ‘ Acid Report ’ . |
| 21 | And Creggan followed her helpless gaze , out past the bars to the great sky itself and it seemed that direction came suddenly to him at last . |
| 22 | Charlie 's office was small and poky and lightless and overcrowded , but the number of possible hiding places was limited and it seemed that she-d tried them all . |
| 23 | She knew how Donna had been banking on one of the boys being a good match , and it seemed neither of them were . |
| 24 | Abul Ismail had said that she was loyal to Genoa , and it seemed this was true , whatever Carlotta had done to her . |
| 25 | Then I heard about the idea of a set of stamps and it seemed this was a way to recognise his work . |
| 26 | and it went all the way round , no problem there . |
| 27 | It was not quite what she envisaged for herself but it had the advantage of being cheap and it went some way towards satisfying Grace , who was convinced that London was a den of iniquity waiting to swallow up her unsuspecting daughter . |
| 28 | Anna had come into the world feet first and it took all the experience of Mrs Finklestein and the skill of the young Dr Arlen , who had come back at once with Denis , to turn the baby round without strangling the little thing with its own cord . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , the king had to send his justices to the clergy 's deliberations and threatened to take the names of opposers , and it took all Winchelsey 's good will and best arts to elicit from them a grant of one tenth for the current year and another , should it be necessary , in the following year . |
| 30 | The images his words had triggered were running riot in her brain , and it took all her strength to blot them out . |