Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] it [verb] [adv] and " in BNC.

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1 They would n't recognise emotion if it stood up and hit them ! ’
2 That Miss Bedwelty — she 's one of the green welly brigade , only think a horse is any good if it goes sideways and backwards — all that dressage lark — ’ ( Mr Bean called it ‘ Dressidge ’ . )
3 This is also due to the action of plaque but it takes longer and is harder to spot .
4 Your pistons are aluminium because you want a light weight because it going up and down , and if it 's very heavy when th the connecting rod wants to pull it back down again it will want to carry on straight out through the top of the cylinder head .
5 But you can imagine my surprise when I angled said state-of-the-art bins to the street , watched the long black car as it rolled up and saw the self-same guy step out of it .
6 A helicopter tracked the car as it weaved in and out of traffic near Bristol .
7 At speeds of ninety miles a Police car chased a stolen white fiesta … through narrow country lanes … cars coming in the oppositie direction swerve to avoid it car as it weaves in and out of the traffic … at times the Police try to overtake it … without success … forty miles after they spotted the stolen car … the road clears and the Police overtake and stop them … three schoolboys are arrested … one of them … a passenger … is fourteen … in the past eight months he 's been arrested twenty eight times … the day before he 'd been placed under another supervision order by Milton Keynes Magistrates where he 'd faced charges of robbery and burglary and joy riding … it was from the children 's home he 'd been sent that his two friends picked him up .
8 ‘ We want to be proud of this album when it comes out and be able to stand over it . ’
9 Second , you should try and incorporate your questions into the interview as it goes along and not leave them all to the end .
10 Windsor , 49 , of Mid Glamorgan , was trapped inside the jeep as it toppled over and kept on rolling .
11 The difference between industry as it exists today and a profession is then , simple and unmistakable .
12 Puffing from the butt of a long gone joint , anticipating to squeeze the last speck , his hands blue from the cold icy wind as it runs in and out of his domain .
13 but I tell you what you know the mark two , have you ever displayed a coder and it rings , rings the bell when the intercom rings , rings the bell if the trunk 's designed to ring and all that , you know when you get the , you put a call on hold and it comes back and it goes brr , brr , brr , the bell starts going ding , ding , ding , a right noise and apparently that 's standard in the system I think that was a bit of an oversight to be honest with you
14 Ruthven cradled his cat and stroked the back of its head , his hand moving faster and faster across the animal 's fur until it stirred restlessly and mewed in protest .
15 She goes when she was born either he was chewing some chewing gum and it fell out and it went ins caught in your mum 's prinny and it glued it together See you tomorrow dudes .
16 For some reason , the makers of this trash still think that all metal fans have had their frontal lobes seared from their skulls , and would n't know an intelligent sentence if it jumped up and shouted ‘ moron ’ in their earholes .
17 For some reason , the makers of this trash still think that all metal fans have had their frontal lobes seared from their skulls , and would n't know an intelligent sentence if it jumped up and shouted ‘ moron ’ in their earholes .
18 However Much rural housing became a public issue , which it did periodically until 1914 , the depression in agriculture generally ensured that little new building took place and it became more and more apparent that housing conditions in rural areas would receive no dramatic improvement without external intervention .
19 ‘ And you would n't recognise truth if it jumped up and bit you .
20 De Craon comes here , ’ he added bitterly , ‘ with his false face and lying tongue … the fellow would n't know the truth if it jumped up and pulled him by his pointed nose ! ’
21 Old Henry VII , father to the Great Killer , was a born miser and inveterate liar who would n't know the truth if it jumped up and bit him on the nose .
22 Gelatine icing is useful for some decoration as it sets quickly and quite hard .
23 The Second Fairy brings Grace and dances slightly faster in such a way that she shows off the lines of her body as it faces forwards and then backwards ( the traditional gesture ) .
24 Latecoming thunder caught us then , in its migraine-vice of sound as it rolled round and down the long Vénéon valley before the rains came .
25 to smithereens but it went off and I woke up
26 Headed back up by to , hook ball , looking for , gets his head underneath and it 's just over the top of the bar , he got the full force of his head beneath that ball and it looped up and over the top of er an anxious looking Paul crossbar .
27 The tendency is for everyone in the team to touch the ball as it goes through and to shuffle back each time someone has completed their turn .
28 It depends on contexts in parse trees , and the algorithm can only calculate parse trees if it has enough AND symbols ; so clustering depends on the set of available AND symbols .
29 Overnight there was a frost and it went hard and crinkly .
30 These rights are called ‘ rights of occupation ’ , and where the leave of the court is necessary the court may make such orders as it thinks just and reasonable having regard to the conduct of the spouses , their needs and financial resources , the needs of the children , and all other circumstances .
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