Example sentences of "and [adj] [conj] it [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The original outline for settlement looks both feudal and foolish — foolish because the men of importance were to be ranged in a tidy hierarchy with outlandish titles like cacique and landgrave , and feudal because it rested on the assumption that the proprietors would get a permanent rental income from politically loyal and economically co-operative tenants . |
| 2 | It stood about a quarter of a mile from the house in a triple circle of beech trees , an isolated building so small and perfect that it looked like an architect 's model precisely set in a fabricated landscape , or an elegant ecclesiastical folly , justifying itself only by its classical purity , as distanced from religion as it was from life . |
| 3 | His shaggy , walrus moustache was deeper coloured , streaky , with irony grey still in it and it was brown and sodden where it dipped into his own , special , pint-size mug which had the word ‘ Father ’ executed on it in rosebuds . |
| 4 | I had even studied Geology as my science subject and although I was cack-handed and obtuse when it came to the practical side had enjoyed the theory well enough . |
| 5 | I know but you but you see if it came to be something big and serious and it went into the newspaper he would . |
| 6 | Perhaps he would be dry and cold when it came to it . |
| 7 | Everyone had seen the dead dog on the path , bloated and grey and bald where it lay in the mud , and the heaps of excrement , all teeming with the same flies that were sharing their food : and the association flooded their throats like vomit . |
| 8 | The floor was paved with marble flagstones , black and white so it looked like a chessboard , and on this had been laid the thickest rugs from Persia , India and Turkey . |
| 9 | This was not primarily due to some old-fashioned desire to pile up reserves , however comforting that might be for central bankers and useful when it came to securing influence by making loans to weaker countries . |
| 10 | That gesture was so unexpected and beautiful that it remained in Agnes 's memory like the imprint of a lightning bolt ; it invited her into the depths of space and time and awakened in the sixteen-year-old girl a vague and immense longing . |
| 11 | But in the present case it was time to take a stand , to declare once and for all that on this occasion at least the truth was as obvious and evident as it appeared to be . |
| 12 | Why was it that this man was such a pleasant and knowledgeable companion , and yet so hard and ruthless when it came to getting his own way ? |
| 13 | Reaction times should be fast if the target phoneme occurred after the recognition point , and slow when it occurred before the recognition point . |