Example sentences of "and it [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the life of her she could n't say the expected thing and it hurt with surprising depth that this man had known her father when she herself had not known him at all . |
| 2 | ‘ Crilly , ’ I say as we lie together , ‘ when the nurse gave me the anaesthetic , she jabbed me so deep that I could feel it throbbing in my veins like an explosion , and it hurt like anything . |
| 3 | This was the brainchild of Francesco de Carerra , a senior legislator in Padua , and it amounted to a padlock that closed the vaginal labia tight by the simple expedient of passing right through them — or as it was more decorously phrased at the time ‘ locked up the seat of voluptuousness ’ . |
| 4 | The story of the railways is intimately tied up with the wider saga of the industrialization of Europe , and it proceeded at a different rate in each country . |
| 5 | But er apparently , er this train whilst it was halted , it was halted locally , but after a while it er it er it did get away , and it proceeded towards er towards er Sheffield . |
| 6 | He sent this prophecy to the MP John Lisle [ q.v. ] , and it circulated in the army . |
| 7 | Only wych elm grew in the wood and it burned for me quite well when dry . |
| 8 | The Renault five turbo going down the road and had a crash and it split in two did n't it ? |
| 9 | and it stuck at |
| 10 | It was an old concrete pillbox built just before the last war to house a gun covering the firth , and it stuck in the sand like a big grey tooth . |
| 11 | I was bringing my own but I put it in the wrong pocket of my coat and it fell through the lining and smashed . " |
| 12 | ‘ In those days the boys went into the church , the army , and so on down the family , and it fell to Charlie to go to the colonies . |
| 13 | Barton failed to clear and it fell to Preece , who fired in his third goal of the season . |
| 14 | However the good financial years had ended , and it fell to Franklin to break the bad news that Blackpool 's trams and buses would actually make a loss in 1954–5 . |
| 15 | The dress slipped to her narrow hips where it remained supported by his hands , until he raised them and it fell to the floor and her body gleamed naked . |
| 16 | At this point the Jews were being deconcentrated , were being channelled back into society , and it fell to us to help dismantle and disperse the ghettos , where the light was always failing and where the children all looked so old and full of knowledge , and everybody moved much too slowly or much too fast . |
| 17 | It gave a last deep cry , its teeth closed on the empty air , and it fell to the ground . |
| 18 | She picked it up , misjudged its weight and it fell to the floor with a thud . |
| 19 | And it fell to bits . |
| 20 | This is the gentlest of expressions of authority , but it could scarcely be firmer ; and it fell on willing ears . |
| 21 | She 'd snatched it away , and it fell on the kitchen floor , where blood had trickled from its beak . |
| 22 | To a certain extent turnover follows that of the cash market in government securities : it rose in 1987 following the start of the new trading arrangements for gilt-edged securities and it fell in 1988 and 1989 when government accounts moved into surplus and there was a cessation of new issues . |
| 23 | The Marxist value system arose in this vacuum of values and it arose from the multiplying effect that machinery had on man 's labour . |
| 24 | The role of foremen or front-line supervisors in these evaluations is a central one and it developed during the 1950s as an integral part of efforts to promote QC activities . |
| 25 | This made it a no-go area for the Hong Kong police and it developed into a warren of opium dens and criminal hideouts . |
| 26 | And it crept in deeper and up |
| 27 | Old Betsy blew on the crinkled taper and it burst into flame . |
| 28 | Half a dozen beams of concentrated laser light converged on it , and it burst into fragments . |
| 29 | A spokesman for West Mercia police said : ‘ Mr Haigh 's car flew into the air with the impact and it burst into flames when it hit the ground . |
| 30 | Lack of an alternative summer team sport protected cricket between the wars and it benefited from a brief post-1945 resurgence in numbers , but then numbers fell so dramatically that by 1965 they stood at about a third of the post-1945 years . |