Example sentences of "[verb] and it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He clearly thought he had won and it annoyed her . |
| 2 | When a young boy , overcome with curiosity , stepped out and prodded the dog 's mouth with a stick , he was grabbed by the arm and hauled back roughly : and when a dog began idly sniffing the body , someone kicked out and shouted and it lurched away through the crowd . |
| 3 | As the nose of the aircraft was raised and some right bank smoothly applied the aircraft was observed to flick suddenly to the right to ninety degrees of bank , whereupon the nose dropped and it descended steeply to the ground . |
| 4 | After a normal steep climb-out , at about 120m the aircraft 's nose dropped and it dived into the ground killing all three crew and destroying the aircraft . |
| 5 | Since just before I moved and it triggered it off . |
| 6 | Her fingers running through the ruff of fur around the cat 's neck tightened as Jehan spoke , and the cat yowled and it bit playfully at her hand . |
| 7 | I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down . |
| 8 | In short , it was claimed that meditators ' moral senses were enlivened and it helped them ‘ become better Christians ’ . |
| 9 | Bert knew that Mrs Tremayne wanted a fence repaired and it seemed an excellent opportunity to use his sudden free time by visiting Four Winds . |
| 10 | He had opened the 1961 claret for them because that was the wine he and Dom had chosen to drink and it had n't occurred to him to offer his guests less . |
| 11 | If they were down to the last dregs of their confidence after their Hillsborough defeat it did not show and it took Kelly 's superb reflexes to deny Newell after only three minutes . |
| 12 | It was 35 minutes before the visitors threatened and it took a reflex save from Mark Morris to deny Graham Alexander after a great run and cross by Tony Daws . |
| 13 | The death of Jock Lewes was keenly felt and it meant that Stirling was down to only one officer besides himself , assuming that Fraser was missing . |
| 14 | The Clinton camp had promised the Election Watch '92 party would be like no political rally ever seen and it lived up to its billing . |
| 15 | We had it scanned and it came to light the morning after the race . |
| 16 | The next day the letter came and it said we 'd have to find another doctor for my dad |
| 17 | It came and it went . |
| 18 | Yeah when if the rains came and it started to er pour away , my God it was tumultuous ! |
| 19 | The kite just kept snapping and flapping and flapping and snapping and it hauled the girl off the earth and into the air , winch and all . |
| 20 | The belly button was protruding and it looked ready to burst . |
| 21 | For example , in Malone v. Metropolitan Police Commissioner it was held that since there was no law against telephone tapping and it did not amount to any common law wrong , it was not unlawful for the police to engage in it . |
| 22 | Within the Labour Party the Socialist League was finding that its attempts to remould policy were resented and rejected and it began to look for allies outside the Party . |
| 23 | I already have an estimate from Woodlands Incorporated and it seemed satisfactory to me . " |
| 24 | As far as I know , nobody noticed and it remained Labour Party policy for years afterwards . |
| 25 | Still no acknowledgement was made and it grew near the time when Gigia would be setting out on her journey . |
| 26 | It was the first show of emotion she had made and it did more to make Wexford believe her story than all the documentary evidence she had furnished him with . |
| 27 | He was amazed with the improvement I had made and it showed just what can be achieved with hard practice . |
| 28 | Aaron ( 7 ) was given an entrance exam which he passed and it allowed him to jump a grade . |
| 29 | She was more scratched than she had realised and it felt as if every small insect in the wood had landed in her hair . |
| 30 | He did n't want to exacerbate what he saw as an existing weakness of his own in that respect , and although he was not censorious of other people , I think he was genuinely quite frightened of it , and at one point in the Arts Lab , when there was quite a lot of speed pills , amphetamines , going around amongst the young people there , he did speak out very strongly one evening against it , saying that he personally did not want anything like that around anything he was closely involved with because he felt that it was not a good thing for people to be speeding and it created the sort of vibes that might end up causing problems . |