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

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1 And so it goes on and on and until somebody gives them a kick up the backside they 'll continue like that forever and ever amen and a day !
2 And so it goes on until he boards a ship about to set Voyager ( 15 , Curzon West End , 113 mins ) Europa ( 15 , Chelsea , Everyman , 114 mins ) sail for France and meets Sabeth , the pony-tailed young woman who is his ‘ fate ’ , leading him back to the woman he once loved and to his own Greek tragedy .
3 The frightening film of the American Airlines DC-10 from which an engine fell clear during take-off from Chicago must have been shown on more television screens than any other comparable occurrence , and so it goes on until we reach the most horrifying event involving the South Korean Boeing 747 which was deliberately shot down north of Japan by Soviet Russian fighters with the loss of 269 lives .
4 And so it went on and the town today has er practically been either reconstructed , the centre has been reconstructed or the older buildings have been brought up to modern standards .
5 And so it came about that while the Operational Staffs of the three Service Ministries were grappling with the Suez crisis of 1956 , which entailed increasing the Defence effort and calling up reservists to fill gaps in the order of battle for the contingency plan Musketeer , they were answering questions posed by the Hull Committee about the implications of halving Service manpower by April 1960 or 1961 at the very latest !
6 ‘ So wonderfully pleased and satisfied ’ was he with it that , as Molyneux wrote to Locke , ‘ he has ordered it to be read by the Batchelors in the College , and strictly examines them in their progress therein ’ ; and so it came about that Locke 's masterpiece was on the curriculum which faced George Berkeley , the subject of the next chapter , when he entered Trinity as a student in 1700 .
7 And then it plunged down and down and down .
8 I gave it a coat yesterday morning and then it hardened up and I rubbed it down with a bit of fine wire wool today
9 And then it splits again and splits again .
10 and then it came down and then er
11 And then it went on and Tug stopped thinking about the quality of the sound .
12 there , there , there be fighting and shoving and pushing for the power and then it says there that it will look as though the , the north king will take all over , all over the what , what spread all over the earth and then it says gradually he will go right back to his ho go home , gradually will be stepping back , right back to his home and there 's going to be no helper for him
13 You must have skidded over it one way and then it tipped back and put up this sort of tooth , like a ratchet , look . ’
14 So Mr is actually going to er talk about that but I just wanted to go through a little sort of resolution , I mean if , if you looked at it , if you looked at number one , it says express this opposition to further expansion and then it goes on and lists Stansted and Luton , but this expansion goes now I mean Stansted is expanding erm daily .
15 and then it stays on until you 've closed the door and locked it , you know
16 Then there was voices , and then it sounded as if the boot went down and then there was the doors bang again and then it revved off and it was n't long it came back .
17 He said I bet it 's that that 's been , oh and then it jumped down and ran corner at g where ch caravan is , he said I bet that 's what 's been eating your bloody daffodil bulbs and that .
18 It became very wet as I carried water to the beasts because there were some very rough days and then it flared out and froze .
19 Where it 's going up and then it levels out and it comes down .
20 And then it comes on and by the time two or three o'clock I I 'm I 'm a wreck , even
21 One day when the terrible moment comes and it is bound to come when we shall be talking of the Serb national catastrophe , when we shall be questioning ourselves about who was responsible for it and how it came about that we are the last nation in Europe to be surrounded by such enemies and such hatred , then many of the great brains of the Academy will find themselves in the dock if they live to see the day .
22 It was quite incredible to see the original fabric and how it changed completely when washed and steam pressed and how easy it was to use as a lovely flat piece of fabric .
23 To be fair to him , he had repeatedly hinted that , when the evidence was in , it would show that Pound 's contribution went far beyond the mere passing of judgement on particular passages ; and indeed it turned out that the very structure of the poem had been extricated by Pound , rather than conceived and composed by the poet whose name appeared on the title-page .
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