Example sentences of "the [noun pl] and it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We made the mistake of not putting in the trees before the hedges and it 's taken them seven or eight years to get going because it 's so exposed . |
| 2 | But still the habit of flying north for the summer persisted among the birds and it has remained to this day , even though the journey is no longer a few miles , but several hundred . |
| 3 | we 've got , is at the back of the house right , and then it goes up there , then that is the houses and it goes down to the sewer in the road , so er |
| 4 | You can get to us , you can get on at the ba , at the baths and it comes up past Park and you get off , you get off at the end of Wickham Avenue |
| 5 | As the air catches the membranes , the fish is lifted above the waves and it glides for hundreds of metres leaving its pursuers baffled . |
| 6 | Take a step back , view it from the angles and it becomes a sort of absurdist roman fleuve , a Dada- Climbers with which anyone with a tape-recorder and a gift for transcription would run away with the Boardman Tasker prize . |
| 7 | But they are the exceptions and it has to be stressed we are looking at the patient in a wider context . |
| 8 | And so we 've got to desire to have our broken relationship with God restored , you see we need to receive what God offers in Christ , the fact that Christ died for our sins does not mean a thing to us until we say yes I accept it for me , I believe you died for me , I receive it , I 'm linked into it , you see your house can be , let me give you a very simple illustration , your house is linked up with er Eastern Electricity and there is so many er I du n no what , what the what it is , but there is the power there , the there are , there are kilo watts of power on tap in your home , but in the winter you 're cold , when it gets dark outside , it 's dark inside the cooker , the electric cooker does n't work , the fridge is not operating the food is going rotten , you ca n't watch a programme on television , why , because you have n't plugged into the source of the power , it 's as simple as that , you ca n't blame the Electricity Board , it 's not Eastern Electricity 's fault it 's your fault because all the plugs are out of the sockets and it does n't matter what the Electricity Board does short of blowing up your house , they can do nothing for you and it does n't matter what God has done in Christ until we as it were to also plug in , it does n't mean a thing to us , but the moment we link in , that 's the change , the lights come on , there 's , there 's heat there , the stove works , the , the radio , the television , the record player , they 're all operating , the freezer 's working , the situation has changed , we needs to receive what God offers us in Christ |
| 9 | It will be the first time bosses have been allowed to officially join in the celebrations and it marks a victory for Lawrie McMenemy , who has conducted a 15-year campaign on behalf of fellow managers . |
| 10 | It is like the surface of an orange : if you look at it close up , it is all curved and wrinkled , but if you look at it from a distance , you do n't see the bumps and it appears to be smooth . |
| 11 | The weather influences the actual location of the rabbits and it helps determine whether they are underground or on the surface . |
| 12 | again which they 've had have n't they ? , for how many weeks in the year do you actually attend cos I said that you do n't get grant for the holidays and it stipulates the term |
| 13 | In addition G. lamarcki does not have a dense covering of granules in the oral region and ventral part of the arms and it has a maximum of five arm spines not four as in G. caputmedusae . |
| 14 | And these are all based on the allowances and it does n't matter if those are allowances are correct as long as we use the same incorrect allowances all the way through . |
| 15 | Ownership of LCH is quite independent of the markets and it deals with the markets on a commercial basis . |