Example sentences of "[noun prp] and it [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 During the Second World War Petwood was requisitioned by the R.A.F. and it became the Officer 's Mess for 617 Squadron , better known as ‘ The Dambusters ’ , after their bombings of the Mohne and Eder dams .
2 This building was the first great Byzantine church in Russia and it set the pattern for innumerable smaller churches .
3 This is Airspeed Oxford l G–AITF and it marks the return of an Oxbox to a area that once buzzed with them .
4 Cray Research Inc has taken a hit from Standard & Poor 's Corp , which lowered its subordinated debt rating to triple-B-minus from triple-B and it revised the ratings outlook to stable from negative , affecting about $106m of rated debt .
5 The latter 's called Imbuya , it comes from Brazil and it combines the rich orangey-brown colour of Brazilian rosewood with the kind of wildly complex grain pattern you sometimes see in American walnut .
6 ‘ I am not prepared for us to be a satellite of Middlesbrough and it appears the majority of Radio One programmes will be coming from Middlesbrough , ’ he said .
7 The Wesleyan mission had been started in 1886 by the old boys of The Leys School as a settlement for the poor of Finsbury and it had the usual assortment of activities such as clubs , bands , and concerts .
8 In London Oz and It had the field almost to themselves .
9 [ Drafted in 1986 , this was the first systematic revision of the terms of the post-war international settlement in Yugoslavia and it opened the way to the Great Serbian expansion which began in 1987 . ]
10 Since then , more than 2,000 such home have been erected in the U.K. and it remains the company 's most popular product , available in 12 variations from the 1,000 sq ft Hatley to the 4,000 sq ft Abbotsley — an E-shaped stately home with potentially six bedrooms and a long gallery .
11 The Poles filled every available truck and train with Silesian coal and sent it north ; for weeks a fine drifting cloud of coal-dust hung over Danzig and it seemed the port was to become a coal-opolis fit to rival Cardiff , the coal capital of the world .
12 What is noteworthy in the present context is that it was an initiative that was energetically directed by SED and it involved the preparation centrally of curriculum materials for every area of work .
13 It developed into the small , but well-endowed parish of St. John the Baptist in Bedford and it escaped the destruction and confiscation of property that was the lot of monasteries and most hospitals during the Reformation .
14 Australia , on the other hand , has moved rapidly away from its original location on the edge of Pangaea and it has the lowest mean elevation of the major continents .
15 ‘ Here I Am ’ is published with the authority of the Conference of Bishops of England and Wales and it presents the essential teaching of our Catholic faith .
16 It 's called FAXgrabber and it takes the fax and converts it into text which can be edited by any word-processor without the need for re-typing .
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