Example sentences of "[verb] and [verb] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Explosives experts were planning to set off mines to destroy the underground conduits which keep the lava from cooling and solidifying before it reaches inhabited areas farther down the mountain . |
| 2 | These grow and mature until it becomes a flower , a tree , a tiger or a human being — or whatever it is destined to become — depending on the characteristics transmitted to it through its inherited material , the genes , which are grouped together in its chromosomes . |
| 3 | The tram whined and sparked as it pulled up at the fare stage near the Dennistoun Palais and Whitehill Street . |
| 4 | One had mange so badly it was nearly bald : it moped around , scratching the exposed pink skin that had cracked and flaked where it stretched briefly over the jutting spine and ribcage . |
| 5 | The kite just kept snapping and flapping and flapping and snapping and it hauled the girl off the earth and into the air , winch and all . |
| 6 | There the microscopic ovum was revealed and followed as it started its monthly journey to await possible fertilisation . |
| 7 | Her hair , for all she was eight months and one week pregnant , had that day been coiffeured , lacquered and backcombed until it stuck out all around her head . |
| 8 | Within the Labour Party the Socialist League was finding that its attempts to remould policy were resented and rejected and it began to look for allies outside the Party . |
| 9 | Once the process was completed , older boys , apprentice papermakers , came and dislodged the sheet , taking it away to the drying trestles , where it had to be carefully watched and removed after it had dried but before it began to turn yellow in the sun . |
| 10 | He fired and believed that it had gone down . |
| 11 | He , and she , and even the androids , watched the chainsword twist and tumble as it fell . |
| 12 | They are bound and gagged when it comes to extending services by engaging in competition with the private sector outside the local authority . |
| 13 | He was not so simple as to believe that the danger would be over when Aldhelm went home frustrated , but what followed he would have to encounter and parry when it came . |
| 14 | Ms Armstrong said : ‘ I 'm NorthEast born and bred and it has not interfered with my career . |
| 15 | Without warning , a huge biplane burst from the side of a cloud-mountain , scattering castles and crags in puffs and wisps of smoke , its shadow gliding ahead , rising and falling as it sped across the wide landscape of cloud . |
| 16 | The EC Commissioner , Sir Leon Brittan , warned that the UK would be damaged and isolated if it failed to participate in the treaty . |
| 17 | It was shimmering , incandescent , as the colours deepened and the long blue-black tail unfurled and stiffened until it gained the strength to fly . |
| 18 | He said , ‘ Did you have a good Christmas ? ’ , and not looking at him she thanked him for asking and replied that it had been quiet but nice . |
| 19 | Inside the grand , evil smelling hall , a cassocked figure could be seen panting and swaying as it heaved a paper sack of chicken pellets from off the hall table onto the floor . |
| 20 | The rain kept starting and stopping and it looked as if most of our march was going to be in the wet . |
| 21 | Maybe we are like a photocopy of God that got a bit crumpled and smudged as it came out of the machine so that his image in us has got a bit spoilt , but that does not alter the fact that every person has something of God about them . |
| 22 | Oh at any rate , he they started rebidding and then of course it went and went and it fell and then this Mr gave up and whoever the other one was , Do n't remember who he was . |
| 23 | Perhaps it just grew and matured until it took in all their emotions , but his hands began to smooth her back and shoulders , until in the end his fingers were threaded through her hair and his big , warm hands were holding her steady while he kissed her with mesmerising thoroughness . |
| 24 | It grew with the power it was picking up , grew and grew until it filled the cave . |
| 25 | Looking back I suppose it was then that I started to brood about a problem that grew and grew until it burst out into the open at the World Championships . |
| 26 | The analysis will show how ‘ new ’ scientific knowledge is defined and constructed as it becomes part of the wider public discourse of the press , and it will contribute to an understanding of the role of the press as a source for public understanding of science . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , perhaps you can ring him after we 've gone and explain that it 's all been a mistake ? |
| 28 | Pneumonia during the prepatent phase may cause signs of dyspnoea and depression , whereas the presence of adult worms and excess mucus in the trachea lead to signs of asphyxia or suffocation with the bird gasping for air ; often there is a great deal of head shaking and coughing as it tries to rid itself of the obstruction . |
| 29 | What guarantees can the Minister provide that other metal objects can not find their way into prison in the way in which that did and disappear as it did ? |
| 30 | because at that meeting you can imagine that twenty people gathering then you end up not really making any decisions , far too many people , there was a lot discussed and aired and it concerns expressed and it was a case , and I 'm going from recollection here , it was really a case of let's go away and think about it and calm down and look at it rationally |