Example sentences of "and [adv] it [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He kindly gave me a lift home en route to get his bike : he had a nasty fall off it last week and so it had to be repaired . |
| 2 | And so it came to be that the bewitching gesture of her father 's secretary walking down the golden path ( which bewitched me when I saw the woman in the swimsuit take leave of the lifeguard ) had completely gone to sleep in her . |
| 3 | In the morning , body temperature is being raised and so it tends to be slightly lower than required . |
| 4 | And so it tends to be worse in the early hours of the morning and you can have another blip in the sort of er middle to late afternoon as well . |
| 5 | And perhaps it needs to be restricted to the housing and employment er needs arising from Greater York . |
| 6 | More and more it came to be used in relations between states which were not themselves French-speaking : in 1664 the new imperial ambassador to England addressed Charles II in it at his first audience and in 1677 the king of Denmark , when addressed by a Polish ambassador in Latin , replied to him in French . |
| 7 | More and more it tended to be regarded not merely as a useful political device but as something with a moral value and justification of its own . |
| 8 | And really it has to be said and has to be said historically that I mean the army in a way was left with a job which politicians should have sorted out before it got to that stage . |
| 9 | Faith in education as an instrument of growth began to be eroded , and increasingly it came to be regarded , especially by the Treasury , as an extravagant indulgence . |
| 10 | The steel tape had to be cut with wire-cutters , then soldered , and then it had to be ‘ tempered ’ before it could run through the machine — which it did with a loud clang ! |
| 11 | St Margaret had passed several dreary centuries in heaven ; people very seldom sought her intercession nowadays , and then it tended to be superstitious old women with sentimental requests . |
| 12 | And then it has to be supported by a brace . ’ |
| 13 | erm When the the the job description is signed it ought to be passed by a job analyst just to make sure to check the things that erm it has been done properly and then it has to be signed by the erm job holder , the job holder 's manager and the head of division , and it has to be got to personnel . |
| 14 | Subsidiary to that , though still important , are the issues of what it has to say and how it came to be : ‘ sources ’ and ‘ designs ’ once more , both things Tolkien disliked , but useful if not essential to a proper reading . |
| 15 | Well my favourite shrub is , er must be the Charles Austin which is a rather nice one , it 's a cream well scented modern English shrub rose and it grows to about , well up here anyway in Scotland where I am it grows something like erm four to six feet and another one well , erm Aloha , it 's a delicious scented pink and a strong growing rose er fairly upright but erm quite a good one and again it grows to be about five to six feet with us . |
| 16 | It would surely be a directorship within a couple of years , less even if luck went his way and certainly it seemed to be doing so just now . |
| 17 | The principal aim of the modern diabetic clinic must be to prevent complications , and therefore it needs to be organised so that Type 1 patients can be motivated and educated successfully to manage their diabetes . |
| 18 | And therefore it has to be a separate account . |
| 19 | This is the leading edge of medical technology and therefore it has to be done at the proper pace within the ethical considerations and I think the team 's decision to pause and look at evaluation is the right one . |