Example sentences of "[noun prp] and it [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Appalachian English is one of the surviving non-standard regional dialects of English in the United States and it 's associated with the residents of the Appalachian mountain range . |
| 2 | Well if they take as long to do it I mean good heavens there 's been one clanking manhole cover at Halam and it has taken them weeks to do it . |
| 3 | This had been quite difficult and the Gnomes had scratched their heads a good deal , because , although people did not openly refer to it , everyone knew that Flame 's father was Fael-Inis and it had meant a lot of worrisome discussions as to whether this fact ought to be openly acknowledged , or whether it might be discourteous to draw attention to it . |
| 4 | Petiver also bequeathed his own collection to Sloane and it had taken him many years to bring all this material into an orderly array . |
| 5 | The site was gutted by a blaze in January and it 's believed animal rights protestors were involved . |
| 6 | We have started mini-rugby in Nairobi and it has proved very successful . |
| 7 | You see , Mrs Tremayne had driven into Penzance and it meant leaving Mrs Carrow alone with her child . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The Doctor just was n't at his best when St Jovite murdered him in Ireland and it 's taken him a while to get over that . |
| 9 | Recent health scares over cling-film have had a knock-on effect on Tupperware and it has enjoyed a boom in sales . |
| 10 | However the activities of that former director came to the attention of Lautro and it decided to carry out an investigation into W. Plc. 's affairs . |
| 11 | The little striker lunged towards a header from Levein and hooked the ball to the left of Martin and it appeared to cross the line before the goalkeeper palmed it out , only for referee Jim McCluskey to rule it out . |
| 12 | I 'd just had an idea for a way of doing Lear and it had brought me luck . |
| 13 | The judgment of the Exchequer Chamber was delivered by Blackburn J. and it has become a classical exposition of doctrine . |
| 14 | I think just about everyone knows the Neon Tetra and it has hit the top of the polls regularly as people 's most favourite fish . |
| 15 | But also there 's a the Soviet Union used to grow a lot of its own tea , but it grew it round Chernobyl and it had to start importing a lot of tea . |
| 16 | Wales coach Alan Davies admitted : ‘ John Eales 's absence will certainly disrupt Australia and it does give us a bit of an extra chance of winning some line-out ball . |
| 17 | The mission of Teesside TEC is to promote and contribute to the economic growth of Teesside and it aims to do this by fostering individual initiative , community teamwork , business development and quality training . |
| 18 | I have spent most of the last year in what was once Yugoslavia , much of it in the beautiful and doomed Republic of Bosnia Hercegovina and it has left me scarcely able to think , far less write about anything else . |
| 19 | And , and Chairman , that we 've had support , we 've had a great deal of help from party in Europe and it 's kept us informed |
| 20 | He said it was the last ’ closed shop ’ in Britain and it had to go . |
| 21 | Up at Pusey and it 's had a rear end smash . |
| 22 | The aircraft , a well used Boeing 707/436 , had spent much of its life on the trunk routes of BOAC and it had accumulated about 47 000 flying hours up to the time when the crack was discovered . |
| 23 | Teresa Bazar of the pop group Dollar remembered her night with Nicholas and it seemed to capture the predicament to a tee . |
| 24 | He had invoked the name of Callanish and it had sent its power into Minch and left him with a promise he must keep : to put her life before his own if ever chance or opportunity came . |
| 25 | Men claimed he was a shameless womaniser , but to women he was perfect , as if Wotan had dropped a bucket of pure sex from Valhalla and it had come to rest inside the muscled , blond Adonis . |
| 26 | A stream of cars from both directions blocked the Ford and it had to stop , fuming . |
| 27 | He had already done some painting in Vienna and it had shown in some of the very early exhibitions at Euston Road School . |
| 28 | It is being sold as a war in the U.S. and it has reached an emotional level to equal that of contests of a more combative nature like boxing or American football . |