Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] and it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 When Uncle Vernon was a boy a Catholic had let off a firework in the path of the brewery dray-horse and it had lumbered sideways , the streamers of orange paper fluttering from its bridle rein and drifting to the kerb .
2 She looked different with her hair cut and it made them feel shy .
3 She goes when she was born either he was chewing some chewing gum and it fell out and it went ins caught in your mum 's prinny and it glued it together See you tomorrow dudes .
4 We were laughing at the Sun this morning , had a picture of Neil Kinnock 's head in the light bulb and it said , could the last person out of Britain please turn the light off after them .
5 The meeting was held at the Strathallan Hotel in Scotland and an overview of the Hygiene division and it services were discussed .
6 This latter approach is known as programme budgeting and it identifies amounts allocated to individual services .
7 The 200 TDi is now fitted to the Defender range and it looks as if the old Land Rover 2.5 litre unit will be dropped .
8 But the information which was handled in FEMIS made up only the bones of college work and it seems likely that the initial difficulty experienced in FE about translating information into worthwhile knowledge about the improvement in learning would also be experienced at the primary or secondary levels .
9 Its articulation is easier and hence its flexibility is greater than that of the trumpet , but its proper place is the brass or wind band and it has not succeeded in establishing itself permanently in the orchestra .
10 and put it down , it , on the kitchen floor of this place , and in the , our sitting room we had a carpet it was er a carpet of David 's mother 's actually , but it covered the entire sitting room and it looked rather nice you know , because it was a big room and we also had a carpet of sorts in the bedroom .
11 But when he 's put the pallets in the centre of the beam one either side , he 's hit the racking beam and it 's dented .
12 I 've broadened my football knowledge and it 's been a vital part of my education in the game .
13 There I am on the neatly mown grass that says Keep Off Grass with the pigeon pinned under my armpit trying to bend its neck double and it smacking me in the face with one wing , when all of a sudden there 's this : ‘ Oi ! ’
14 THERE WAS A knock on my bedroom door and it opened .
15 Healy moonlights as an advert composer and it shows .
16 And I can always remember it was in the middle of winter and put on the , the four that bit circular bit put it into the four wheel drive and it came up there wonderful and the , yet er going in we were and the other car was swaying all over the place .
17 Alternatively , it can refuse to accept the whole risk — this is common in car insurance and it happens in practice after thefts in which a considerable mess is created .
18 He had glanced in the washroom mirror and it had not been a reassuring sight .
19 It 's it 's on a little table at the end which says rate card analysis and it had T V areas Yorkshire T V North East T V and then principle main secondary local corner shop other and totals numbers in the middle .
20 The Top-selling hardback in the British book trade leading up to Christmas 1991 was Pauline Cockrill 's The Ultimate Teddy Bear Book and it had held its position among the top ten hardbacks for over two months .
21 Molecule for molecule , they are 10,000 times more potent than carbon dioxide and it has been estimated that if production is not checked they will rival carbon dioxide as the main greenhouse gas in the twenty-first century .
22 It is one of the 20 largest software companies in the US , its MS-DOS Fastback package is the industry standard and it knows a thing or two about distribution and support .
23 Kauntze had some harsh words to say about the St Leger entry system and it seems as if this will be renewed for next year .
24 Kauntze had some harsh words to say about the St Leger entry system and it seems as if this will be renewed for next year .
25 After they landed , the wind rose and it rained heavily ; when the rain stopped , there was a severe frost and eventually it snowed .
26 This house was to be Lovat 's Brigade H.Q and it appeared that we were going to be there on high ground for some time .
27 Not because she could n't lose weight but because she enjoyed coming along for a weekly work-out session and it helped to keep her weight in check .
28 Based on the MLT results , the Well Evaluation group is now trying to minimise the lower layer 's formation damage and it focuses on the reactivation of the lower portion of the upper layer 's production capability .
29 Some of them have played a big part at local council level and it does n't turn nationalists into unionists .
30 Well , yes , we all know that , but if it gives the autograph seeker pleasure and it takes only a moment of your time , then it seems pointless not to oblige .
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