Example sentences of "[noun sg] and it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was then that they released the Wheel and it came bowling down the hill not more than ten yards from where I was standing . |
| 2 | The boat lurched as his hands slackened on the wheel and it hit the wake of a speeding launch . |
| 3 | It happens in religion and it happens in politics . |
| 4 | Out there is a whole world full of garbage and it gives me ulcers to throw one more shred of scum back on the heap . ’ |
| 5 | It 's my job to keep a check on the stock and it seemed a good chance to get something done … ’ |
| 6 | You were asked to phone in , so , erm , so our phone was out of order , so I had a phone card and it had four units on it . |
| 7 | If you , in case A , if you imagine that you 're presented with with a piece of paper or card and it has two symbols on it , right ? |
| 8 | The Government says the dentists are treating too many patients under a new productivity deal and it plans to cut back on payments by an average of £6,000 to each practitioner . |
| 9 | The Government says the dentists are treating too many patients under a new productivity deal and it plans to cut back on payments by an average of £6,000 to each practitioner . |
| 10 | That 's the one for me because it 's so raunchy sounding and it 's got a real grit to it that I think is just fantastic . |
| 11 | Erm yes the cycle work working party has been very successful i er experiment and it has been much appreciated not only by people in the city but by the the other parties that have taken part in it . |
| 12 | Japanese , it 's a massive one , one er , it 's a thirty thousand gallon erm pond and it 's got , and it goes through a filter box and it 's four and a half tons of erm four and a half tons and that is a lot of |
| 13 | And now he was passing a second and more dilapidated pillbox and it struck him that the whole headland had the desolate look of an old battlefield , the corpses long since carted away but the air vibrating still with the gunfire of long-lost battles , while the power station loomed over it like a grandiose modern monument to the unknown dead . |
| 14 | Ultimately , their efforts brought those ‘ Peace People ’ the Nobel Peace Prize in December 1977 , but controversy over that award added to the movement 's inability to sustain its momentum and it faded from the newspaper front pages . |
| 15 | When , for example , a previously repressed anger comes back into consciousness and it becomes safer for a person to acknowledge his hostility , desire is also freed . |
| 16 | However , this is only a recommendation and it remains to be seen just how much notice the courts will take or whether legislation will follow . |
| 17 | On Sunday , all afternoon it 's flipping football and it drives me crazy ! |
| 18 | ‘ Ron Atkinson enjoys life and football and it gets through to everyone at Aston Villa . |
| 19 | The speed is still going up , the acceleration , and eventually it reaches a top speed and it stays there . |
| 20 | When I was in the north-east , there was particular concern among business men whom I met because the north-east in particular has benefited greatly from Japanese investment and it does not want investors to be frightened off . |
| 21 | His appearance in the Toyota World Match Play at Wentworth in October was his 17th in succession and it gave him the chance of winning the title for a record sixth time . |
| 22 | The largest was at Gretna on the Solway Firth and it became no less than a State-developed new town , south-west of the existing village . |
| 23 | Toxoplasmosis infection is caused by a parasite and it affects 50 per cent of us by the time we 're 70 . |
| 24 | ‘ So we made the pickup and it did really well . |
| 25 | erm it 's an automatic enhancement and it depends on your actual length of service and you know when you actually apply for the for the infirmity allowance . |
| 26 | Dawn was just breaking and I began to see a little more civilisation and it looked sort of right . |
| 27 | This is a typical result and it seems that , like the tendons , the early development of the muscles is quite autonomous . |
| 28 | Her shoulders sagged in defeat and it became clear to the watching man that she accepted their veracity . |
| 29 | It 's just that sometimes you sound like someone straight out of a Second World War movie and it gets on my lower-middle-class nerves . ’ |
| 30 | In the main , however , policing continues to be publicly concerned to prevent and detect individual attempts to steal the property of the citizen and it suits the police 's purpose for their community role to be well broadcast , for on those rare occasions when they have expanded their controls to include the activities of the middle classes , they have found themselves on less certain ground . |