Example sentences of "and [det] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this it sought to achieve by minimising the number of people required to exercise control while maximising the number over whom it could be exercised . |
| 2 | One way and another it had been a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon . |
| 3 | To all intents , a British plane flying home if anyone saw it and all it had to do to make the drop was fly in under eight hundred feet because many sections of the English coast have no low-level radar . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The snow 's very loose on the Wildhorn at this time of year and all it took was a small charge to start the ball rolling , if you 'll excuse the pun . |
| 5 | ‘ And all it took was marrying you , ’ he murmured , and started to kiss her again . |
| 6 | This , after twelve years ' dedicated service to the system and all it represented to her . |
| 7 | There were explicit reminiscences of the Punjab , and all it meant in imperial song and story , in the minds of Northern Nigeria 's creators as they were creating . |
| 8 | Their private parts were firmly jammed in the wringer and all it needed was for somebody to the rescue . |
| 9 | The first factor to bring about the overthrow of the gens and all it stood for was the appearance within the ‘ gentle constitution ’ ( the gens stage ) of the pairing family . |
| 10 | D'Arcy felt a sudden insane anger at the Pessarane Behesht and all it stood for . |
| 11 | Loyalty to her clerical superiors , to the Church and all it stood for , battled with her contempt for the way in which the senior clergy had behaved both to herself and to Amy . |
| 12 | Consideration of marketing and all it implied in terms of design , reliability , delivery and servicing , was of little importance against the basic problem of production for a world market in which there was a substantial margin of unsatisfied demands . |
| 13 | But this had not improved Britain 's competitive position , and all it did was reduce the home demand for products , thus increasing unemployment further . |
| 14 | That is to say you bought a word processor , and all it did was allow you to type words onto the screen — that and some formatting . |
| 15 | As a result , by the time war was declared in 1939 MI6 had failed to establish any worthwhile network of agents in Europe and those it had were of very dubious quality , some even dishonest and fraudulent . |
| 16 | This is not the place to discuss the intricacies of the argument and those it gave rise to in the anthropological press ( for a cross section of the arguments see , e.g. , Strathern 1983 ; Brady 1983 ) ; the purpose in raising it is to note the continued appeal of the debate and to point out Freeman 's confident rejection of the possibility of a peaceful society . |