Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afterwards , incongruously dressed in a raincoat , she went to the bows and stared briefly down at the mesmerising onrush of sea where it split and foamed at Wavebreaker 's cutwater . |
| 2 | A bib had been tied around Bissell 's neck to collect the raw , liquid plaster which oozed from his mouth where it congealed and hardened . |
| 3 | Something moved on the farther side of the lochan , something hulky and dirty white , caught in the bog myrtle , where it shifted and billowed in the breeze . |
| 4 | Green blood spurted wildly into the air , much of it landing into the stew pot where it fizzed and crackled like little gun shots . |
| 5 | Stepping forward to get a firmer grip , I trod on the rake whose handle leapt up , giving me a nasty crack on the brow and a making me stagger , knocking a bottle of systemic insecticide on to the floor , where it shattered and spread a nauseating puddle at my feet . |
| 6 | Another landed on his cheek where it sizzled and went out . |
| 7 | You know , it 's er it 's got the bad publicity that it had and it 's still got it , well I do n't think it has to be . |
| 8 | The Adour , which is much the wider , is also the clearer , approximately water-coloured , you could say ; the Nive is the rich colour nearly of chocolate , which is appropriate enough given that Bayonne was long famous for the chocolate that it made and in which it traded . |
| 9 | This way and that it rippled and shivered and then was still , a great sea . |
| 10 | Control had shifted away from LEAs , but central government claimed to lack the power to secure the improvement to education that it sought and which the Conservatives promised the electorate in 1987 . |
| 11 | We are not sorry that it failed and that , accordingly , Chapter 9 breaks into dialogue . |
| 12 | Lower at the back , the short dress 's absolute simplicity contrasted effectively with the extravagant colour , a deep rich crimson , the silky fabric moulded to every curve that it covered and tapering up to thin straps that revealed the pale olive tone of her smooth , slender shoulders . |
| 13 | The 1991/92 annual report of the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) has shown that it prosecuted and won less than 2 per cent of cases of river pollution reported during the period . |
| 14 | Our escorting Wellington was delayed due to phenomenal sandstorms in the Delta area , and it was only on 18 March that it arrived and we set off for Benina to refuel before the sea leg to Malta . |
| 15 | But , but , but that would ex at least explain why the outline agrarian law takes the form that it did and what was the thinking behind it . |
| 16 | He maintains that it went straight as i die , whereas I think that it curled and dipped ( not to any great extent ) into the top right corner . |
| 17 | What a turnaround for a Government which only a couple of years ago actually raised more money than it spent and was dedicated to not borrowing . |
| 18 | No sooner had I thrown it into the toilet than it exploded and I was spattered with the pan 's contents . |
| 19 | The plaintiffs ' underlying complaint seems to be that C.M.C. borrowed more than it needed and spent more of the borrowed money than it could afford to spend , with the result that there was a loss for which the plaintiffs have been held personally liable as guarantors . |
| 20 | After the Edinburgh summit , that looks much less likely than it did and that can only be good news for Courtaulds . |
| 21 | Sun Microsystems Inc had to do something to prove it 's muscling into retail like Hewlett-Packard Co so it went and sold Dunkin' Donuts $8m worth of IPC machines to network more than half its 1,600 franchise operations over the next four years . |
| 22 | Once it evaporated and Darren Wassle was eventually dismissed for a crime which bore no resemblance to the magnitude of the sentence , well Palace must have fancied their chances . |
| 23 | Believing in her heart of hearts that Nancy would soften towards her and the child once it arrived and made a niche in her heart . |
| 24 | Oh at any rate , he they started rebidding and then of course it went and went and it fell and then this Mr gave up and whoever the other one was , Do n't remember who he was . |
| 25 | He eased it on to the narrow road and it coughed and spluttered along . |
| 26 | Went into the supermarket and it said and it said pour , not it said erm pour le animal , well any fool would have thought that was poor the animals , and Carol said that looks nice , we 'll , we 'll have a pile of that ! |
| 27 | And it bit and gulped , grew vicious , snatched |
| 28 | And it clicked and I , well occasionally before and very occasionally and I |
| 29 | Looked like huge gigantic pieces of toffee that he used to put in here and it melted and |
| 30 | I stood and looked at it and it came and rubbed itself against my leg . |