Example sentences of "and it [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed so nice and dependable — just the sort of person one would like for a brother — and it hurt her to think that he might be double-faced . |
| 2 | Dimly , Mrs Palichuk perceived that she was in the way , and it hurt her . |
| 3 | He loved her deeply and it hurt him badly when he learned the truth about her . |
| 4 | She was absolutely indifferent to him , he thought , and it hurt him suddenly . |
| 5 | He watched her eyes fire with the old , familiar irony , and it hurt him like a blade . |
| 6 | I mean I 've had mine flood and I 've had its thermostat go and it boiled everything . |
| 7 | It was half-blind and its fur was staring and it expected nothing and desired nothing save the crust by the table leg on which its half-gaze was fixed . |
| 8 | She wore a linen knee-length frock the colour of sand , and it suited her . |
| 9 | She was wearing the blue and green dress and it suited her every bit as well Claudia had thought it would . |
| 10 | It had been styled rather well , as though she 'd gone to a really good hairdresser and it suited her , was soft over her forehead and short at the back . |
| 11 | Edward rented it from a woman who lived abroad , a woman he had never met , and it suited him perfectly . |
| 12 | It was traditional , and it suited them . |
| 13 | Mrs Burrows had made her a red coat with fur on the collar and cuffs and it suited her dark hair and huge brown eyes perfectly . |
| 14 | Maybe he caught some virus from a jungle or a desert somewhere , and it infected his brain and slowly ate it away and he got hallucinations and tremblings and gnashings of teeth till eventually he fell into a coma and was flown home . |
| 15 | This year at New Year this guy threw all these streamers at me — you know , the stuff in a can — and it ruined my coat . |
| 16 | At one primary school I was asked a question that made the teacher look worried , and it baffled me . |
| 17 | A picture rose in her mind of Dawn enfolded in his arms when they were alone in his surgery , and it tormented her so much that she got up hurriedly and put the little dog in a cage to await Robert 's collection . |
| 18 | He had heard it , but not often , it was a strange one and it escaped him . |
| 19 | Unlike the previous soft glow , this new light had a sharpness about it , and it beckoned him upward like the guiding beam of a lighthouse in a dark stormy sea . |
| 20 | And it surprised her a little that it was true . |
| 21 | The wildness and stubborn valour in her had become real strength and it surprised him . |
| 22 | Indeed , the authorities made no move against the organization during the Second World War and it continued its activities unmolested . |
| 23 | For one colleague in that Department , this experience was the initial point of contact with the study of language in relation to the educational process , and it led him to undertake an Open University degree including as many options in that area as were available . |
| 24 | His voice was deep and it sent her pulses racing . |
| 25 | And it fucked it up for about a second or three seconds afterwards . |
| 26 | Yet there was something else there , too — something that she had never seen in him before — and it touched her deeply . |
| 27 | She could sense his muddle , and it touched her . |
| 28 | But now I suppose he had nothing to win , nothing to lose , and it made everything easier . |
| 29 | And it made everybody was getting shifted down to , so I did n't fancy working down there , we 'd heard that much about it so that 's when I left and went to Walkers . |
| 30 | She was getting her dress all dirty , and it made her cough . |