Example sentences of "and [vb past] it be [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Yanto was also having second thoughts about getting into a fight over such a silly incident , and realised it was caused as much by jealousy as anything else . |
2 | This general modesty about the rights and powers of human reason might not appear a very dangerous threat to natural theology , but the way in which Hume sharpened and applied it was to have a quite shattering impact . |
3 | Except , as we have seen , for confident bourgeois like James Mill and Edward Miall , both those who campaigned for universal suffrage , like the Chartists in the 1830s and '40s , and those who dreaded and opposed it were agreed that it would lead to the political domination of the working class . |
4 | Despite the heat of the afternoon , she felt shivery , and guessed it was delayed shock . |
5 | But instead , the company found itself unable to deliver the vehicles and claimed it was caught out by fluctuating exchange rates . |
6 | Once the connection is made and established it is referred to as an S-R bond . |
7 | The basis for the objections was that the RRA considered the site to be unsuitable and felt it was chosen by the IDA simply because the land was to hand . |
8 | He looked across at the hour candle and saw it was growing late . |
9 | apparently turned up this morning and they want a hundred pound by tomorrow , and they 're coming back tomorrow for it paying him ten pound a week and thought it was gone and he had er none so find a hundred pound by tomorrow and she did n't know where she was going to get it from , she just stood there and burst into tears and run off going on |
10 | Michael 's younger sister found him a fidget in church and thought it was fidgeting to excess . |
11 | Den Bosch , Netherlands-based Tulip Computers NV reported a loss — the first in its history — of about $8m for 1992 , and said it is cutting out the dividend , but the shares improved about 8% after the company said that it expected better 1993 results — and the loss was not as bad as had been feared : analysts had seen a loss of as much as $13m . |
12 | The Commission itself said this was insufficient and said it was considering court action to gain power to do the deals . |
13 | He thanked Mitch again for the tattoo and said it was lasting pretty well , considering . |
14 | But then they came back and said it was changed to ‘ Everything We Do Is Driven By You ’ and my initial thought was ‘ Yuk , I do n't think I can do anything with that either , ’ because it just sounded like motor cars and I 'm not interested in singing songs about motor cars . |
15 | Every time I upended a glass , I could feel the blast on the roof of my mouth , and hoped it was seeping through into my brain . |