Example sentences of "and it [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The rehearsal had gone well , and it seemed as though he had successfully jumped the chasm between off- and on-Broadway . |
| 32 | The biggest breakthrough in the farm came with the arrival on the scene of a small grey tractor called a Fergie and it seemed as though almost everybody had at least one and it became the jack of all trades on the farm and implements which had previously been pulled by horses had their shafts removed and couplings were made to fit them behind the tractor . |
| 33 | The former Northern Ireland champion won the first frame 71-45 but McCluskey took the second 57-37 and it seemed as though the Ulsterman was in for a tough fight . |
| 34 | So what with Carole 's soft voice and that we did n't get a lot of and it seemed as though it was well like that , several times I went last year and I really got a bit cheesed off . |
| 35 | It was in this period that de Gaulle was anxious to proceed with devising the CAP and it seemed because of this that he might make concessions to his partners . |
| 36 | You hear Zerlina singing and it sounds as though her voice is coming not out of her mouth but out of a tree on the other side of the set . |
| 37 | Similarly , ‘ Railwayed ’ and ‘ Drive That Fast ’ incorporate these great bits of acceleration , where Patrick starts bouncing up and down and it sounds as though all of Julian 's dozen effects pedals are going ‘ WOOOSH ! ’ at the same time . |
| 38 | ‘ And it sounds like they 're coming along now , ’ Sergeant said . |
| 39 | He tells us what 's been happening in Deptford since this morning , and it sounds like I 've been away seven months . |
| 40 | It was his first experience of such blatant prejudice and it came as a shock . |
| 41 | Moyola looked the more likely to get the winning score on the resumption and it came when Ruddock , who was unlucky earlier with a header which struck the Tobermore upright , sent in from the wing in the 79th minute and their big outside left Calderwood was on hand to head to the net . |
| 42 | The tree-tops were bowing in the rising wind , and it sounded as though they , too , were sighing . |
| 43 | and it sounded as though it was on the railway but it was n't the railway it was a big factory at the side . |
| 44 | To have self-confidence is great and it helps when you apply for a new job , but to eat up your seed corn because you 're sure all will turn out for the best is foolhardy . |
| 45 | Being with others is also important , and it helps if you can involve a depressed resident in outside activities . |
| 46 | 'Little Bunnies ' is a very popular song and it helps if one or two adults lie down with the children . |
| 47 | The fee , called Sisa , has little value in strict legal sense but not all ambulantes have one and it helps if the cops decide to pull a raid . |
| 48 | And it claimed as the travellers were n't proper gipsies , the council had no legal duty to provide a place for them to stay . |
| 49 | This selection covers everything from John Cale , Todd Rundgren and Roddy Frame to echoes of Brecht/Weill and Richard Rodgers , with a Philip Larkin poem added in along the way , and it works because of the versatility of her gentle but dramatic singing , and the elegant but sparse settings by the producer and pianist , Mimi Izumi Koyabashi . |
| 50 | This obviously reintroduces the scepticism which Descartes had hoped to avoid , and it increases when Malebranche goes on to argue that our perceptions of a material world could not anyway be caused by that world even if there were one , but must be caused by God . |
| 51 | Actor Philip Bond is no stranger to the bard and it shows as he injects a world weary stance through various theatrical gesticulations . |
| 52 | It has already changed the pattern of life in America , and it seems as though our turn has now arrived . |
| 53 | It certainly has one of the most well thought-out texts , and it seems as though Handel , although no great literary expert , always responded well to libretti of quality . |
| 54 | At first sight , the filter circuit may appear conventional but the presence of the diode D1 is unconventional and it seems as though it is going to be switched off all the time anyway , the anode ( a ) always being at zero potential . |
| 55 | Even when you see a stage performance of hypnotism and it seems as though the ‘ unwilling ’ subjects are being made to act against their will , that is not really the case . |
| 56 | It takes some nerve , and it seems as though I am eradicating what I have , but the white ‘ sinks ’ and through practice it is possible to judge the correct strength . |
| 57 | I think complaints about erm and it seems where we have the problem of our own making if you like with this improved road scheme we are installing traffic calming erm and er I think that to be told that it 's going to be left and looked at in relation to all the other er sites needing traffic calming is a little bit er |
| 58 | And it stopped when it hit something . |
| 59 | The F2 progeny complicated this picture and it appears as though the genes responsible for orange colour in Alaska are different from those producing a similar phenotype on Vancouver Island . |
| 60 | Indeed , recombination probably emerged very early indeed in the history of life , and it spread because it was a way of repairing damaged nucleic acids . |