Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They do this mainly as eggs , and then hatch out and develop rapidly once it rains and a pool forms . |
| 2 | I grinned then , I recall , and brought the stunter down fast and acute across the weeds and the water , the sand and the surf , scudding it in across the wind to jerk and zoom just before it hit the girl herself where she sat on the dune top holding and spasmodically jerking the string she held in her hand , connected to the sky . |
| 3 | In the stunned silence George Felse got up , without speaking , and crossed the room to where Gus 's jacket hung on the back of a chair , turned towards the replenished fire , and steamed gently as it dried . |
| 4 | She estimated that its body was about twice the size of the shuttle , but it seemed much larger because of the mottled membranes that extended like wings on both sides of the creature , and rippled lazily as it swam through space . |
| 5 | Okay in Italy on the marble it does work , but on the slate it you know it it has n't worked and I think various quarries have tried it and found out that it does n't work , and yet he assumed that he knew better and you know , little little things like that , you know he just seemed unwilling to learn or lis heed advice . |
| 6 | He 'd always assumed that this was a piece of official terminology until one day he 'd asked what it meant , and found out that it stood for Another Fucking Drunk . |
| 7 | Stock should be handled carefully and put away immediately it has been checked in ( using stock rotation methods — see below ) . |
| 8 | … imagine a fairy chain stretched from mountain peak to mountain peak , as far as the eye could reach , and paid out until it touched the ‘ high places ’ of the earth at a number of ridges , banks , and knowls . |
| 9 | If he was a difficult friend , he could also be a loyal one — the most notable example , of course , is that of Ezra Pound whom he continued to support and defend even though it meant that he became embroiled in the kind of public controversy which he detested . |
| 10 | Mr. Cooper , the chairman of the dock company and the ports authority , gave evidence before me and stated unequivocally that it did not come from him , nor to his knowledge from any of his subordinates . |
| 11 | However , A. Alföldi has identified the head as that of Antoninus Pius and shown also that it did not belong to the club . |
| 12 | We climbed Storskarfjell on a long and hard day that started before the sun came up and finished long after it had gone down . |
| 13 | The Asian elephant is basically a jungle-living animal , lying up in shade during the day and feeding mostly when it gets cool . |
| 14 | It is rolled into a pellet and fastened to the end of the needle and lit so that it smokes . |
| 15 | And note also that it clips on ; there 's no cable . |
| 16 | WENDY ELKINGTON SHOWS HOW TO GET THE RIGHT INDEPENDENT FINANCIAL ADVICE , LOOKS AT BANKING FOR SCHOOLCHILDREN AND FINDS OUT WHETHER IT PAYS TO HAVE A LODGER |
| 17 | Well I 'll ring her up tonight as well and find out if it 's , if it 's gone up exorbitantly , I 'll have to ring round , ring you and see what to do . |
| 18 | We have a fox that lives near us and I have spent many a night and a morning watching it frolicking and jumping about and it breaks my heart to think that many of its kind are suffering death at its worst . |
| 19 | Mistakes do not disappear of their own accord , and the text on the screen will be saved and printed exactly as it appears . |
| 20 | Riven felt a thrill of fear in his stomach , like ice poured liquid into the bottom of his lungs ; and then it was all he could do to steer his terrified horse in Murtach 's wake , and stay aboard as it swerved past rocks and bushes , and leapt hollows with the thunder of the other horses like a storm in his ears , and the rain a freezing hail in his face that blinded him . |
| 21 | So anything that can fall down and go faster as it falls . |
| 22 | Ben studied his brother — the man he had always thought of as his father and saw suddenly that it did not matter what he was in reality , for Hal Shepherd had become what he believed he was . |
| 23 | I saw again the one that escaped the Grounds and died just before it made it to the stream . |
| 24 | Like a forest fire , it started from the individual and grew outwards until it enveloped the whole area of monastic patrons and friends and dependants . |
| 25 | These simulations allow weaknesses in an inspection system to be identified and rectified long before it enters practice . |
| 26 | During a violent storm it broke away and drifted westwards until it hit land on the barren headland of San Quentin . |
| 27 | Butt up a whole panel against the skirting and mark off where it overlaps the last fixed panels . |
| 28 | We had such happy family holidays in the drizzle waiting for the sun to try and come out that it seemed churlish to spoil things with science . |
| 29 | He heard himself , it sounded like a door opening somewhere inside him , it was an old door , it had been stuck for years , you had to heave on it , you needed all your strength , and then it gave a few inches , and cried out as it gave . |
| 30 | Charioteers traditionally carry the deadly Singing Blade , a glaive-like weapon cunningly carved and pierced so that it shrieks as it is swung . |