Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] it [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Etched into Kinder Scout 's northern flanks , the clough provides pleasant rock-hopping as it twists and turns upwards until you enter a fine , hidden amphitheatre which gives good scrambling up rocky steps . |
| 2 | The ant repays the tree by sweeping it leaves free of fungi , by assaulting any leaf-eating animals that it encounters and by attacking any competing plant that dares come within chewing distance . |
| 3 | He was very much a social novelist and to appreciate the moral significance of his novels you have to relate it to the actual society that it reflects and often criticises . |
| 4 | The van slewed wildly , but kept travelling , smoke appearing from its rear tyres as it swerved and skidded back towards the exit . |
| 5 | The typhoon shelters at Aberdeen and Mong Kok start to fill with craft , their prudent masters and owners looking uneasily at the eastern sky as it blackens and darkens , and as the wind begins to sing in the telephone wires , the unsecured edges of roofs begin to flap and creak , and the streets are busy with flying litter , and dust . |
| 6 | The measurements are taken by accelerating the car in low gears at full throttle as it approaches and passes the noise meter . |
| 7 | But the cynical depravity of this outrage — placing a bomb that would inevitably cause massive damage to a national health service hospital and was intended to kill medical staff when it exploded and which , only by great good fortune , did not cause many more deaths and injuries — must surely mark one of the lowest points in the IRA 's inglorious history . |
| 8 | This is a genuine surgical emergency if it occurs and the unfortunate victim has to be whisked off to hospital . |
| 9 | He eased it on to the narrow road and it coughed and spluttered along . |
| 10 | In a series of meetings with employees he explained : ‘ A slimmed down , more agile Wedgwood Group will be much better placed to take advantage of worldwide recovery when it comes and to fight off our increasingly aggressive overseas competitors . |
| 11 | Invariably it is an ineffective communication as it antagonizes and also leaves the subject not knowing whether help would otherwise have been offered spontaneously . |
| 12 | Mr Brazauskas , 60 , was head of Lithuania 's Communist Party when it rebelled and split with Moscow in 1989 . |
| 13 | This is not always necessary on liquid-based foundation as it dries and will set without leaving any residue . |
| 14 | Come on Aria , the Mad Axe might be a reasonably cheap guitar but it looks and sounds upmarket and it deserves a more upmarket name . |
| 15 | These compress the sac which has contained the child and the amniotic fluid until it breaks and the fluid escapes ( the " showing of the waters " in popular parlance ) . |
| 16 | Armando Boetto , commanding officer of the 49 a Squadriglia , Blue 1 getting in the final burst before it disintegrated and fell into the sea . |
| 17 | Return to pan and stir over a low heat until it thickens and just comes to the boil . |
| 18 | You know , it 's er it 's got the bad publicity that it had and it 's still got it , well I do n't think it has to be . |
| 19 | It was the last age when the railway station was an essential ingredient of every traveller 's itinerary : point of departure , point of arrival , point of contact en route with everyday life as it teemed and flowed outside the protective cocoon of the train . |