Example sentences of "it [vb past] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | To break down such barriers , Bow Valley last year decided to re-engineer the way in which it processed and distributed information . |
| 2 | Never once have I dipped a finger into that money-bag , however fat it bulged and however heavy it weighed ; it was always brought straight home to you … every farthing that crossed my palm . ’ |
| 3 | In his final years he tried to revive his career in an American television series about martial arts called The Master ( 1986 ) but it failed and another series never got beyond the pilot stage . |
| 4 | We are not sorry that it failed and that , accordingly , Chapter 9 breaks into dialogue . |
| 5 | It checked and looked at her . |
| 6 | This way and that it rippled and shivered and then was still , a great sea . |
| 7 | It passed and he looked upriver to where Mariana lay hidden upstream of the fallen treetrunk . |
| 8 | I felt fear at this moment but it passed and I was calmed in thought when the sensation passed . |
| 9 | It passed and he straightened up , but a moment later it returned , stronger , burning like a coal in his guts . |
| 10 | The dragon 's tail whipped around as it passed and caught him a stinging blow across the forehead . |
| 11 | She touched this totem carefully , gaining confidence as it quivered and tautened . |
| 12 | Entering from under the pit of his arm it pierced and split his left shoulder joint , and his body swivelled slowly into an upright position , suspended on the horn . |
| 13 | For long moments it gazed and the rabbits remained motionless , staring back without a sound . |
| 14 | Albert 's dingy sink had been scoured to its original yellow colour , and the window above it gleamed and winked with unaccustomed cleanliness . |
| 15 | It used every means at its disposal : it argued and pressured the Versailles politicians ; it cheated in the plebiscites ; it engineered uprisings in Silesia and Wielkopolska ; it skirmished and then went to war with the Red Army for territory in the east . |
| 16 | It swirled and howled , driving the sleet and snow towards him alone . |
| 17 | It swirled and broke across her hand . |
| 18 | ‘ Barnet 's barmy army ’ it read and it seemed an apt description of an outfit that are n't Even Barry Fry , the manager whose latest sacking and return enlivened another crazy week at Underhill , admits that the club , which beat Rochdale 2-0 on Saturday , is a laughing stock . |
| 19 | As the first axe cut into the Tree , a great wailing cry of agony rent the thick stifling heat of the workshop and Nuadu knew at once that the Tree had been taken down while it lived and while the naiad still dwelled within it . |
| 20 | You pushed it away to the back recesses of your mind , but it crept and crawled about and then annoyingly broke through the surface again . |
| 21 | Control had shifted away from LEAs , but central government claimed to lack the power to secure the improvement to education that it sought and which the Conservatives promised the electorate in 1987 . |
| 22 | It sought and found in Harry 's memory the niggling familiarity he had already sensed . |
| 23 | I know some people say it takes time , but I think if you spend a year producing a lamb it is nice to see it sold and you do the best you can for it . |
| 24 | At the heart of both of them is a witness to the vital relationship between the historical reality of the Incarnation and a way of living by which man may engage with the spiritual reality it manifested and thus extend it in time . |
| 25 | Armando Boetto , commanding officer of the 49 a Squadriglia , Blue 1 getting in the final burst before it disintegrated and fell into the sea . |
| 26 | He pushed at the gate and after a struggle it creaked and groaned open on its one rusty hinge . |
| 27 | It creaked and I stopped and then heard something : a sort of thin scratching from underneath the stairs . |
| 28 | It creaked and wobbled ominously under their weight . |
| 29 | As it moved it creaked and crackled , an old tree moving over crisp leaves . |
| 30 | It swooped and gusted , then hung impermeably , aspiring almost to a solid state . |