Example sentences of "and it [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 This particular novelty was the third short orchestral piece to appear in the last few years , written , like the second , at Knussen 's prompting , and it rounded off a performance of all three as a suite , titled Three Occasions for Orchestra .
2 Watch out for them when you buy it and it opens up a whole world of experimenting .
3 Holmes says : ‘ Steve could not have made a better start to his outdoor season and it opens up all sorts of possibilities .
4 That day was the feast of St Peter and St Paul , and it dragged by .
5 The train consisted of Cambrian 4-wheelers headed by a ‘ Seaham ’ class 2-4-0 and it proceeded up the Tanat Valley .
6 So , with her last remaining strength , she pushed it through the bars , and it fluttered down to his feet . ’
7 Bang a drum and it answers back , so I was working on a street market at the time and I went and bought a drum and started to learn .
8 Apparently they have had people calling in saying , ‘ please could I speak to Sue ’ , and that could be anybody , and then the switchboard has to go through the rigmarole of saying , ‘ what 's it all about , do you know where the person works , can you give me a bit more information ’ , and it takes up a lot more of their time , so please , if you 're leaving a message for somebody to call you back , leave your full name and your extension number .
9 Over half of that can be eliminated by buying British , so marketing can produce considerable improvement and it takes on a new and dramatic urgency .
10 But the muscles had no strength to sustain it , and it fell over forwards , hitting its nose on the ground .
11 The bumper struck the container and it fell over .
12 Brushing past the plant and it fell over , that 's all .
13 and then on top of that he took the battery off Pat 's car and it fell over in the front so all the acid burnt the carpet !
14 Oh and it fell out of your pocket ?
15 She goes when she was born either he was chewing some chewing gum and it fell out and it went ins caught in your mum 's prinny and it glued it together See you tomorrow dudes .
16 Now that was a year , but , er because you was n't a bound apprentice , when trade fell off in the winter , and it fell off drastically in the winter , and then built up for Easter , when everyone in those days bought new clothes .
17 Eventually both of the door 's plastic hinge stubs broke , and it fell off !
18 and the join , and it fell off
19 I suddenly hit the grey thing and it fell back against the tree .
20 Molly removed the rags that Mary had put in my hair and it fell down in ringlets .
21 And that looked pretty funny like and it fell down a couple of days ago and maybe a pretty while afore that I du n no .
22 He shrugged his shoulders and it fell down his arms .
23 The arm worked off and it fell down .
24 so one council 's got a bit of paper and it ties up with the other one when you come here but if you do n't , if you have n't paid before you could n't tell them you were leaving
25 The Clinton camp had promised the Election Watch '92 party would be like no political rally ever seen and it lived up to its billing .
26 He made a model to test his ideas and it lived up to his expectations .
27 Right , here we went at twice the speed , and it finished up half the time .
28 It was its last run and it finished up at Priory Heath erm was on the Gainsborough route .
29 So , in 1931 , he began to train teachers to carry on his work ; this school was set up in his home at 16 Ashley Place in London SW1 and it continued up to his death in October 1955 .
30 And it ran on , beyond the perimeter of the chamber , on and on in a straight line for hundreds of metres , for kilometres , dwindling in the distance to a taut thread against darkness but still stretching away .
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