Example sentences of "[pron] and it [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He passed the day skulking around cafes , and when Georges met him by chance later on he confessed he 'd been beaten up in his flat because he 'd agreed to do a favour for someone and it had gone wrong . |
| 2 | washing thing I said someone and it 's gone ! dun n it ? |
| 3 | And if you do n't feel that you can fit in a pupil comment , you have to be very careful here because some people will take it as a cop-out and not do it and a that worries me and it has happened and I think it is important that the youngsters are actually given some guidance and the opportunity to do it . |
| 4 | Without doubt the train was following them and it had passed over several fog detonators without setting them off . |
| 5 | Written and signed by you and it 's witnessed by some independent witnesses . |
| 6 | Yeah but , she said they do n't da , the they bite you and it 's got poison if you 're not careful ! |
| 7 | It 's shocked me in itself and it 's shocked me because of where I am . |
| 8 | ‘ But it shows she was trying everything and it did put an end to the sightings at that time . ’ |
| 9 | It was as if she had said something and it had caused a click in his mind that brought down the shutters to keep her out . |
| 10 | How many times have you supposed to have taken something back or have it repaired or something and it 's sat there , and it 's sat there , and it 's sat there , and it 's sat there and it 's collected du , I 've got things round the house that I 've been working on and that I 've got ta , I 've got ta and it 's collected dust . |
| 11 | If many of you are doing something well , but you need to be brought together , our role is to co-ordinate you , and if you 're not doing something and it needs doing , then our role is to initiate it . |
| 12 | It 's too complicated to explain er why this happens , but such simulations have been done , notably about Parker Baker and Smith who did the famous one and it does suggest that if you start off , even if you start of with similar size , that is sex cells , they will be driven by a competition for reproductive success to the extremes and you 'll end up with two extreme types , a large type proto-ovum and a tiny type , a proto- sperm . |
| 13 | I had a cream one and it got wrecked by going I think Neil put it in the wash with one of his black T-shirts . |
| 14 | I 've only got this one , I had a cream one and it got wrecked by going , I think Neil put it in the wash with one of his black tee shirts , and |
| 15 | and we came to look at this one and it had got an inner hall and in the position was |
| 16 | ‘ The market is a dynamic one and it seems to prove that there was a latent demand for sea travel , but the prices or perhaps the product were not right . ’ |
| 17 | Yes , well up here in Scotland er where I live erm the maincrop variety Golden Wonder tends to certainly need a par boiling and a par boiling only er when cooking so it needs about what five to six minutes or something like that but erm any more and the tatties go to mash and er that 's why I think a lot of the Golden Wonders er in Scotland are cooked in their skins but erm if I was to go for a variety that er I enjoy would be one called Pentland Ivory , it 's a , a nice flowery spud er and you get quite a plentiful supply of them too so it 's quite a good variety but you know the old Kerr 's Pink used to be called I think Henry 's Seedling , I remember rightly and then it changed its name to Kerr 's Pink because Kerr was a seedsman up in who really introduced it and er that was just after the first world war and that 's a good one , that 's a very good one and it 's got that waxy skin as well you see so it might be quite useful . |
| 18 | For our own one and it 's got Miss June and Mr |
| 19 | I seemed to have no value for him and it began to feel like a kind of death . |
| 20 | Although the western consensus based on the traditional liberal interpretation has now broken down , many of the most distinguished scholars in the field remain firmly committed to it and it continues to inform conventional wisdom among non-specialists in the West . |
| 21 | It went out , the press got behind it and it began turning into something . |
| 22 | She 'd even been on the local TV news for it and it had done wonders for business . |
| 23 | ‘ Too often chief executives fail to recognise that they have embarked on a major project until they are well into it and it had run into difficulties . ’ |
| 24 | He had rather enjoyed it and it had helped him to keep his mind off what might be happening to Snodgrass and to Floy and Fenella . |
| 25 | For instance , Piers 's unforthcoming remark about avoiding love because he had once tasted it and it had left a bitter after-effect . |
| 26 | At the end of the lawn there was a sundial ; they looked at it and it had got the time right . |
| 27 | ‘ I thought about it and it does go back to those very early days and probably to that first meeting , ’ she says . |
| 28 | The Chancellor yesterday very kindly did not put V A T on books and periodicals but had he done so that would have the effect of taking more than one hundred thousand pounds out of our accounts in the current year without us being able to do anything about it and it does seem to me that we should be considering asking the members in general meeting to pass to the Council of the Association the right to set and increase subscriptions and having properly advised the members thereof to fix the effective date of such increases , otherwise we are very badly placed to respond to short-term problems . |
| 29 | er I 'm slightly worried about the effect on the Olympic movement of Atlanta being chosen only in the sense that er that this is the , I think the sixth time in 25 years that a North American city has got it and it does look rather as if the er pressures are now , on the financial side , are now coming very much from the North American continent and I 'm not at all sure that that 's really good for the Olympic movement . |
| 30 | We stared at it and it seemed to stare at us . |