Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] and it [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Uncle Vernon was a boy a Catholic had let off a firework in the path of the brewery dray-horse and it had lumbered sideways , the streamers of orange paper fluttering from its bridle rein and drifting to the kerb . |
| 2 | But when he 's put the pallets in the centre of the beam one either side , he 's hit the racking beam and it 's dented . |
| 3 | The Top-selling hardback in the British book trade leading up to Christmas 1991 was Pauline Cockrill 's The Ultimate Teddy Bear Book and it had held its position among the top ten hardbacks for over two months . |
| 4 | Er , I 've now added the research approval form and it 's become a related document here but in the original allocation of forms , the responsibility for keeping this up to date was not mine . |
| 5 | Like Attlee and his senior ministers in 1945 , Churchill had seen the wartime machine and it had worked . |
| 6 | The present economic recession has highlighted the growing problems of financing an expanding education system and it has revived the debate on the contribution of education , and particularly higher education , to economic growth . |
| 7 | OVER the summer months I have been attending a class to learn Irish sign language and it has given me a new understanding of what hearing people must feel when learning to talk to deaf people . |
| 8 | is the way the total response of the City and District Council and it 's had a chance , this Committee , to look at it and move forward . |
| 9 | And Guy 's villa is the ultimate in luxury ; it overlooks Marigot Bay and it 's got — ’ |
| 10 | It 's in a white envelope wi you know where you 've got that clear plastic thingy and it 's got your name and address ? |
| 11 | I have peeled the potatoes , they 're in the stew pan , and the onions and the carrots and the beef 's all in the stew pan and it 's had about quarter of an hour . |
| 12 | It 's got training need and it 's got virtually everything down there that the new member of staff joining the company would need to know . |
| 13 | Yeah well we 've got a little antique box a jewellery box and it 's embossed the pattern round it , and the pattern round it is a boar hunt and it 's beautiful , there 's a little boar galloping his heart out with horsemen after him with spears and he 's all the way round the box and I thought of adding him on to the copper kettle you know as engraved all round the outside . |
| 14 | Detectives were alerted by Central Nottinghamshire Health Care Trust and it 's understood their inquiries will take some time . |
| 15 | While more ambitious retailers diversified , Sainsbury stuck to its core customer base and it has paid off . |
| 16 | It 's come from Miss Dawn who wants her car back it 's a red Escort Laser it 's bright rosso red and it 's got a bit of rust on the driver 's front wing and red paint on the exhaust . |
| 17 | I 've used a filing cabinet and it 's put me off ! |
| 18 | Hydrogen you can think of very much as a fuel in the manner of north sea gas and it 's got a high calorific value , it burns well and , despite rumours , it 's actually a very safe fuel as well . |
| 19 | You can swing your leg round , move it outwards it 's a simple ball and socket joint and it 's used in engineering quite a bit is n't it ? |