Example sentences of "the [noun] [subord] it [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stood staring at the jeep as it bumped and swayed over the uneven ground of the orchard until it reached the road and then disappeared in a cloud of dust . |
| 2 | ‘ No , this he threw back into the bushes when it snapped and turned in his hand . |
| 3 | An opportunity to discuss the difficulty over the telephone when it arises and to look for a means of reducing the effects of the crisis is the starting point . |
| 4 | The frisson that he caused was still sweeping through the gallery when it paused and then redoubled . |
| 5 | Believing in her heart of hearts that Nancy would soften towards her and the child once it arrived and made a niche in her heart . |
| 6 | She was prepared for the move when it came and followed Claudia Hamilton and the other ladies upstairs . |
| 7 | Zimerman 's , in particular , provides a memorably crystalline and trenchant communication of the score as it stands and his recording is surely among the most nobly austere , powerful and unadorned . |
| 8 | The loss of equilibrium is seen as being both a root cause of the crisis when it occurs and its manifestation . |
| 9 | They grabbed the plank and shoved it out of the back of the cab until it tilted and swung down towards the floor . |
| 10 | No sooner had I thrown it into the toilet than it exploded and I was spattered with the pan 's contents . |
| 11 | They are , in fact , the beaches of ice-drained lakes left behind by successive falls in the glacier as it melted and was released from the valley at the end of the Ice Age . |
| 12 | They are strays , having been carried here by the glacier that once occupied Crummackdale as it retreated at the end of the Ice Age , scouring the ground as it departed and bringing down the boulders from their place of origin higher in the valley . |
| 13 | A running and ringing in the darkening afternoon , urgent voices on the phone and the grind and clang of the lift as it came and went . |
| 14 | Now whisk the mixture until it thickens and will hold a soft peak on the whisk . |
| 15 | and the moon starts coming across the sky as it does and it gets in the way of the sun . |
| 16 | But he would then be treating the past as evidence of present attitudes and convictions , not as important for its own sake , and he would lose interest in the past as it aged and was therefore of less evidential value . |
| 17 | The major one is that the wing , had it been left there , would have snagged on the underside of the Kilcharran as it surfaced and tilted the fuselage , maybe to so acute an angle as to make access to this damned bomb difficult or impossible . ’ |
| 18 | Then in typical fashion the sun came out and dried the heather till it crackled and Scotland recorded the highest temperature in the British Isles . |
| 19 | Her father , Ray Shepherd had worked in the shipyard until it closed and her elder brother , Steve , had been out of work since leaving school . |
| 20 | There was no time for him to get up the steps and past the door before it opened and deadly talons reached for him in the darkness . |
| 21 | She was scarcely aware of the tapping at the door until it opened and Niall came into the room , his presence the catalyst for so many warring emotions within her that she stared at him with mutinous , tear-filled eyes . |
| 22 | She was scarcely aware of the tapping at the door until it opened and Niall came into the room . |
| 23 | They all watched the door as it opened and Donald 's face poked round the edge , and then they all looked at each other and they all thought the same thought : Now ? |
| 24 | ‘ We have been closely monitoring the project as it progresses and introducing the operator 's staff to a number of techniques we use to evaluate the potential of the blocks . ’ |
| 25 | Aboard the plane as it climbed and headed out over the Gulf of Finland she sat in a daze . |
| 26 | She turned and lunged into the crumbling bank with the torch until it lodged and held still , focused upon the motionless bulk below . |
| 27 | The track curved sharply , taking his car halfway around the ship before it slowed and stopped . |
| 28 | Karen poured the coffee when it arrived and let Whitlock help himself to milk and sugar . |