Example sentences of "and it [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By now , winners or losers , the contestants will be sleeping or coping with their own adrenalin hangover in their own way , and it feels like my chicks have left the nest . |
| 2 | It should loosen a couple of teeth — and it feels like I have one stuck in the middle of my forehead . |
| 3 | The first part you need to complete , part A and this has got your personal details bank details it asks about your family details for family benefits and it asks if you are in receipt of any other oth other pensions . |
| 4 | This is a fax I want you to send to Ian in Aiden Mouth and it reads as follows good afternoon Ian , at long last I 've been able to get down to this memo of yours , dated the thirtieth alt can you please let me know the actual deliveries ' figures in the first part of this memo . |
| 5 | First is to Finland and it is to Penti P E N T I , and it reads as follows dear Penti , at the moment I am looking for information on the cost for officially trialing grasses and clovers in your country , stop . |
| 6 | Tragedy involves the past , and it arose when the Greek awareness of time was becoming clearer and stronger . |
| 7 | It concerned a contract to provide a made-to-measure set of teeth and it arose because they did not fit . |
| 8 | Ah , it says , let's see … and it waits while you go on living , telling yourself this peculiar state of suspension is the common sensation of being . |
| 9 | The light has begun to go , and it fades as they die , and as GUIL speaks . ) |
| 10 | Wage evidence could also be noted , but it is even scarcer than price data , and it remains as yet uncertain whether any particular trend swill be discernable . |
| 11 | She kept her eyes steadily on the glass , and now the power was concentrating itself in one small part of each eye and growing stronger and stronger and it felt as though millions of tiny little invisible arms with hands on them were shooting out of her eyes towards the glass she was staring at . |
| 12 | Anyway , I just held her , and it felt like she 'd broken , could n't take any more , then she kissed me . |
| 13 | What it boiled down to was : there was here , where he had friends and family , or there was London where he had a few friends and a lot of contacts , and it felt like things were happening , and where you could fill time with something no matter how mixed up and fraudulent you felt … or there was abroad , of course ; the rest of the world ; India ( to take the most extreme example he 'd found so far ) , where you felt like an alien , lumbering and self-conscious , materially far more rich and spiritually far more poor than the people who thronged the place , where just by that intensity of touching , that very sweating crowdedness , you felt more apart , more consigned to a different , echoing place inside yourself . |
| 14 | Freezing , something when er a liquid is freezing and it changes when it is you know changes in the physical sense of the |
| 15 | Absolutely , and it does because it a it what Dave says it 's an emotional whole and you start off and you come back to where you started . |
| 16 | And it looked like he was of bureaucracy , but what he was trying to perfectly valid point , that he could n't actually make the final decision . |
| 17 | Hodge equalised Gannon 's second-minute goal in the eighth minute , and it looked as though the game was heading for a draw . |
| 18 | But then a lot of them fancied their chances that year — Peter Oosterhuis , Nick Faldo , and so on , and Bobby Clampett led for a while and it looked as though they might not be able to catch him . |
| 19 | Batty 's right ankle was still swollen yesterday and it looked as though he would need a miracle cure to make the second leg of the European Cup tie . |
| 20 | Dawn on Monday morning shone only a bleak grey light over Moscow and it looked as though the weathermen would be right in their prediction of rain by midday . |
| 21 | They continued riding through the afternoon , by which time the dull cloud above their heads had become unbroken , and it looked as though they were in for a wet night . |
| 22 | And it looked as though you 'd bought something rather than been to the pawnshop . |
| 23 | Alan Knight made a stunning reflex save from Phillips five minutes from time and it looked as though Boro were on the way out . |
| 24 | The following afternoon — i.e. the day the Germans made their most menacing gains — he telephoned that the attack had ‘ slowed down and it looked as though we would be able to hold out and even make a counter-attack ’ . |
| 25 | All I could do was write a letter , and by the time I 'd written a letter and it got where it was going and a reply got back , a week or two weeks could have gone by . |
| 26 | Sun says Addamax — a vendor to Sun — asked for a loan guarantee , and it agreed because the suit raised serious issues . |
| 27 | and I just , I threw buckets of water on it to rinse it , and it dried because it was really warm and it came up like new |
| 28 | I was reading my instructions though and it said before you start pressing knobs |
| 29 | Already the tanks ahead were in action and it seemed as though they had made contact with , and destroyed the majority of the enemy flank guard . |
| 30 | They had looked to be a one-pace crew in practice and it seemed as though they had no answer to Oxford 's attack . |