Example sentences of "and it [vb past] " 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 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Had been found lacking by Dionne and it hurt . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It hurt us , it hurt them and it hurt the sport . |
| 7 | Dimly , Mrs Palichuk perceived that she was in the way , and it hurt her . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She had reached the edge of the garden and it hurt . |
| 10 | When Jezrael woke , the world was blue — and it hurt . |
| 11 | He felt as if he was burning and it hurt to breathe . |
| 12 | And it hurt . |
| 13 | He loved her deeply and it hurt him badly when he learned the truth about her . |
| 14 | Deep down he was aware of this fact , and it hurt . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | It was said harshly and it hurt . |
| 18 | She was absolutely indifferent to him , he thought , and it hurt him suddenly . |
| 19 | And it hurt ! |
| 20 | I tried to swallow and it hurt . |
| 21 | He watched her eyes fire with the old , familiar irony , and it hurt him like a blade . |
| 22 | It was Edward 's first parachute drop except in training , and it hurt . |
| 23 | She found nothing and it hurt so badly . |
| 24 | Oh , he was clever , and it hurt unbearably to know that now , of all times , she had to lie to him . |
| 25 | they were caught out only once and it hurt … sub Andy Clarke ran onto a quickly taken free kick and that was that 1-0 … |
| 26 | Claire bent my toe back and it hurt , she does this . |
| 27 | It was too mortifying for words , and it intensified the vulnerable feeling she 'd been experiencing around Guy Sterne . |
| 28 | I mean I 've had mine flood and I 've had its thermostat go and it boiled everything . |
| 29 | That day was the feast of St Peter and St Paul , and it dragged by . |
| 30 | 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 ’ . |