Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] and it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've got everything on computers now and it does n't work half the time does it ? |
| 2 | He had a stroke four months ago and it 's left him extremely weak down the left side of his body . |
| 3 | It it seems to me we 've spent about an hour and ten minutes or so almost shadow boxing over this particular policy erm and we we keep running into well running both matters together and it seems right and proper that we should do that . |
| 4 | ‘ The whole business has dragged on for two weeks already and it looks like going on even longer . |
| 5 | And I 've come back years later and it 's had the same effect on me . ’ |
| 6 | Anyway , I 've been sober for a couple of days now and it changes your perspective a bit . |
| 7 | I 've been here three years now and it 's been improving all the time . |
| 8 | But you know it surprises me I mean I know the church is , is closed and it 's been closed for a couple of years now and it looks a sight because now I do n't know how many members they 've got , at least a couple of them could go in there and cut all the brambles down . |
| 9 | I 've also still got my old Gibson Melody Maker ; I put humbuckers in it many years ago and it 's got a really warm , big sound . |
| 10 | You could use a chronic adulter to actually write it a bit easier but er I did n't know about that when I wrote these slides many many years ago and it 's carried on since . |
| 11 | Carriage driving for the disabled began about 20 years ago and it 's been growing in popularity ever since . |
| 12 | She 'd got thing in her in her er yeah what 's what it is up she damaged it ooh some years ago and it 's been a bit weak since like , you know but sh it was only a few weeks ago we got some computer big computer , with big discs and she twisted her hand in in pulling one out , you know it 's I do n't how , the fell or something and she went to cash it or whatever and of course we 're riding the motorbike for the like you have to change gear it 's only a small seater , your bike 's open |
| 13 | Britain 's biggest manufacturer of generic pharmaceuticals was only formed two years ago and it has not yet become familiar within the business , let alone a household name . |
| 14 | So it 's all about sharing things out and it gets into this sort of fractions when we get when there 's not enough to go round and we have to start cutting things up cutting the pizza up . |
| 15 | Five , ooh five , and you 've got witnesses now and it 's been recorded . |
| 16 | Option two is take the doctors away and it collapses . |
| 17 | We 've had a couple of bomb threats lately and it 's been installed to warn staff to clear the building . |
| 18 | The people who run it try to fix up compatible ages , interests etc and it does n't matter if you ca n't speak the lingo , they will find someone with a knowledge of the English language for you . |
| 19 | ‘ We switched Brian further forward with half an hour to go at Portsmouth three matches ago and it has produced results , ’ said manager Malcolm Crosby . |
| 20 | all the way round , that 's about three times across and it 's got to be that way round , the all the way round , over how far across . |
| 21 | and then it homes in on one of the men right and it goes sort of whee one hour later whee whee bom bom bom and the other one goes one hour later right and the computer just explodes and it just goes boom |
| 22 | The kite string is making an angle of forty degrees there and it 's got a hundred metres of the line payed out . |
| 23 | Media activity gives shape to the ill-defined contours of the political system : it brings new players and issues into the political arena , it leaves others out and it rearranges positions and placings . |