Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | … 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We climbed Storskarfjell on a long and hard day that started before the sun came up and finished long after it had gone down . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I saw again the one that escaped the Grounds and died just before it made it to the stream . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | These simulations allow weaknesses in an inspection system to be identified and rectified long before it enters practice . |
| 12 | During a violent storm it broke away and drifted westwards until it hit land on the barren headland of San Quentin . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Later in the twelfth century Vladimir became the capital and leading city of the area and continued so until it succumbed to the Tartars . |
| 15 | Thinly washed colour was applied , then blended with the brush and pushed around until it felt right . |
| 16 | Christina touched the side of his jeep and jumped away as it began to rock . |
| 17 | The first chairperson of the organisation , the evangelical church minister Detlof Rose , considered the congress to be a success and pointed out that it had raised critical questions with regard to the Church and its use of modern technology . |
| 18 | Mouths that opened and closed hungrily as it advanced , showing lots of saw-teeth within the openings . |