Example sentences of "and it [adv] [verb] [pers pn] that " in BNC.

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1 ‘ He talked about his work and it immediately struck me that , as a professional doctor , he had an almost unhealthy interest in the more sordid side of sex , ’ she says .
2 Just do n't enjoy Palace losing , but sheer football and it just shows you that ironically the two games can match each other and there were chances for Palace to wrap that game up .
3 One is that the then Conservative group , and I think , by reflection the current Conservative groups , since everybody sitting here was here last year , do n't know enough about budgeting to set a budget for a county council , and it also tells us that they do n't know enough about managing a county council to manage even a budget that they have set .
4 He pointed out that although my title was an attractive one — since there was such a thing as a ‘ servile ’ society , namely a totalitarian one — the reader would assume that I was using the word liberal in the modern sense , which was certainly not my intention , He then went meticulously through my argument , and it almost pained me that he should take so much trouble over a work which I can not think it deserved .
5 Beth had been surprised to know that Cissie herself had been thinking along those very same lines , and it only told her that she was right about Maisie 's children — they were growing up fast .
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