Example sentences of "and it " in BNC.

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1 He was not dead , but not far off dead — and 't was said he 'd never be the same again .
2 ‘ Edward is wont to forget , you understand , being such a new sovereign — and 't is my duty to remind him . ’
3 ‘ Perchance he desires not to receive me — and 't is by his wish I am denied a sight of him . ’
4 ‘ You just keep on for half a mile or so and 't is up on your left .
5 — A bit like a car boot sale but for clothes and it happens indoors .
6 The length of the covenant will have been specified in the Deed , and it will terminate when the last specified annual payment has been made .
7 Gift Aid is a scheme which gives tax relief for ‘ one-off ’ contributions to charity and it came into force on 1st October 1990 .
8 Adherence to this stated principle has never faltered , but other areas of concern took precedence and it was not until the late 1970s that this area of work was developed .
9 Of course , none of the work carried out by Amnesty could continue without money and it is in this respect that sections , particularly the larger sections like the British , have a vital role to play .
10 Since art critics have these working assumptions in mind , and it is with their writing we shall be mainly concerned , we need to proceed without being distracted .
11 The reader can hope , all the same , that the writer will give an account of the special merits of key pictures , and it is these art critical passages which can be of most help in enjoying or appreciating the chosen artist 's achievement .
12 There are many galleries through the world , and it is no longer so difficult for an artist to show work independently .
13 David was greatly encouraged by this warm admiration expressed by a celebrated man , and it helped to develop his talent .
14 It is a usual feature of such a comparison that there is a basic level of information which is common to most of the reviews , and it is the mark of a skilful critic to have worked in some personal assessment of works , or some individual response to the show as a whole .
15 It was a Romantic notion that there were resonances in the natural world and art ; and it was Schiller who argued that music , the visual arts and poetry ‘ always become … similar in their action on the mind ’ .
16 This theory of stages in understanding art is helpful , and it will immediately be realised that the first two stages fit in with description , the next two with interpretation , while the final stage is judgement .
17 The same angle was conspicuous in the title story of Naipaul 's previous book , In a Free State , where a coup in a new African country was studied , as it were , out of the corner of an eye ; and it also occurs elsewhere in his work .
18 Naipaul 's Caribbean country has been looted and exploited in the past , and it is still being looted and exploited .
19 Since then , he has written , among other things , The Mimic Men : while relatively unsuccessful , this is the novel which most resembles Guerrillas , and it undoubtedly ‘ diminishes ’ the politics of emergent countries by raising doubts about the character of their independence and the motives of their leaders .
20 Of the stories I have in mind , Othello and Desdemona , Samson and Delilah , Dido and Aeneas , only the third is spoken of , and it is spoken of oracularly .
21 The local queen falls in love with him , and it seems that the journey to Italy might be called off .
22 This is a book which takes for granted , and which has doubts about , the mingling of peoples , and it is a book which takes pride in its chosen people — Salim 's people and , in some measure , Naipaul 's .
23 The household shot , and it rode , to hounds and in all directions , but Ronald Fraser had no love for horses .
24 Nail on the Banister by R. Stornaway , alias R. Scott , is an eloquent Scots joke of the Thirties , and it allows one to say that Glasser 's banister was a bed of nails , but that his slides may have been less painful than Fraser 's .
25 In Spain Bernard questioned the principle that the end justifies the means — ‘ the human price was too high ’ — and it had almost ‘ cost him his life ’ .
26 Glasser presents a full picture of the behaviour , good and bad , which he encountered in an area of maximum difficulty , and it is not often that such a picture has been presented .
27 Pastiche is a dualistic activity , and it is an activity which can lend itself to the expression of paranoid feelings and unacted desires .
28 The expression I am quoting is uttered by Dyer , and it is an expression which Ackroyd is given to using in his books .
29 The pale Hawksmoor is an inhabitant of the present day who reminds one not only of Dyer but of P. D. James 's character Inspector Dalgliesh — one of her novels , A Taste for Death , published a few months after Hawksmoor , has a church murder in London , draped in the poses of this sensitive , cultivated policeman , and it also has , like Hawksmoor , a suspected tramp .
30 Interpretation is allowed to copy what it finds , and to distort it , and it may be that the novel can be interpreted as an entertainment which conveys that doctrines of science and improvement ca n't encompass what happens in a frightening world , where motive is dark and ill-will ubiquitous .
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