Example sentences of "and it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 This particular novelty was the third short orchestral piece to appear in the last few years , written , like the second , at Knussen 's prompting , and it rounded off a performance of all three as a suite , titled Three Occasions for Orchestra .
2 This was the name of the spread she had chosen , and it displayed an entire interior self-portrait on a scale she had never attempted before .
3 Watch out for them when you buy it and it opens up a whole world of experimenting .
4 Patrick Standun 's book ‘ Lovers ’ has on its cover a priest and a semi-naked woman in bed and it opens with a character using a sock for purposes he claims he learned from ‘ The Dark ’ .
5 Ye ken , ye walk up tae a door and it opens of its ain accord .
6 I try an unmarked door and it opens to reveal … yes , stationery again .
7 Holmes says : ‘ Steve could not have made a better start to his outdoor season and it opens up all sorts of possibilities .
8 Do n't forget last Christmas when you forgot your mother 's and we had to come dashing back for it , and it snowing like blazes .
9 I know that giving a man on a ventilator morphine in high doses , enough to cause general anaesthesia , is risking his life , and it distracts me to think about whether or not it 's ethical .
10 And it granted Mr Gorbachev most of the new powers he had requested ( though it rejected his clumsy proposal for a system of local inspectors to help enforce presidential decrees ) .
11 Had been found lacking by Dionne and it hurt .
12 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 .
13 It hurt us , it hurt them and it hurt the sport .
14 Dimly , Mrs Palichuk perceived that she was in the way , and it hurt her .
15 I have only ever once paid out good cash for rocks , in an emergency when I lived in Reading ( good for free lime-rich gravel , but no local rocks at all ) and it hurt dreadfully .
16 She had reached the edge of the garden and it hurt .
17 When Jezrael woke , the world was blue — and it hurt .
18 He felt as if he was burning and it hurt to breathe .
19 And it hurt .
20 He loved her deeply and it hurt him badly when he learned the truth about her .
21 Deep down he was aware of this fact , and it hurt .
22 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 .
23 ‘ 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 .
24 It was said harshly and it hurt .
25 She was absolutely indifferent to him , he thought , and it hurt him suddenly .
26 And it hurt !
27 I tried to swallow and it hurt .
28 He watched her eyes fire with the old , familiar irony , and it hurt him like a blade .
29 It was Edward 's first parachute drop except in training , and it hurt .
30 She found nothing and it hurt so badly .
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