Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] and it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The long day passed slowly and it grew very hot . |
| 2 | a lovely cottage , thatched roof cottage they lived in and it had an apple tree in the front , and a pear tree down the back , and all fruit trees . |
| 3 | I started to like it more when we loosened up and it got less serious . |
| 4 | When England batted , Gooch was given out caught behind and it seemed to dispirit his team-mates ; without their hero of the previous game they looked lost , and folded for 114 all out . |
| 5 | in technology we use a tracking sheet which is an A four sheet doubled over and it 's got a er it the date beginning of the week and then it 's , divide into the the lessons , there 's just three boxes |
| 6 | Well they were nine till seven , really six , but mostly seven o'clock before you got away and it involved wiring er coal cutting machines . |
| 7 | It was at this point I think Batty came on and it made a f- of a difference . |
| 8 | And th that that night the travel picture came on and it said Hanover . |
| 9 | So it came in and it went round |
| 10 | A cold , harsh light struck through deep wells in the banks of cloud ; then these wells filled up and it became almost dark . |
| 11 | It came nearer and it did n't sound right . |
| 12 | The sun came out and it grew warm on this sheltered side of the island . |
| 13 | We drove down the Angel Bank skirting Ludlow , and then as we turned into Corvedale the sun came out and it cleared … |
| 14 | So she kept the tune trapped in and it marched up and down inside her head . |
| 15 | The hour winged past and it seemed no time at all before I was back on the top road waiting in the gathering darkness for the Scarborough bus . |
| 16 | As soon as she 'd gone , Flavia Sherman began to fumble with the buckle of her belt ; but her hands shook uncontrollably and it took her a long time to undress . |
| 17 | We got about twenty panels at work and on the panel there 's a little plastic thing stuck on and it needs four keys and one . |
| 18 | It was in the 1920s then that criticism developed apace and it became a socially respectable and intellectual orthodoxy to relate the worthlessness of the movies to the immaturity of the masses . |
| 19 | Kinane , who was having his first Arc ride , said : ‘ I had quickened past Behera when Carroll House hung across and it did n't affect the result . |
| 20 | Not even hearing the rolling crackle above , she was conscious only of the moving light , as the footsteps began again and it swung this way and that , searching something out . |
| 21 | He had reached the open area of the tank trails when the helicopter 's lights blazed on and it started to lift into the sky . |
| 22 | The arm worked off and it fell down . |
| 23 | The last tour I had the whole thing note-for-note worked out and it got a bit boring after a while ; this way it stays exciting and sometimes I pull it off and sometimes I die a death . |
| 24 | It was n't really their Auntie 's pub , but she worked there and it had been convenient to make all the arrangements on a friendly family footing . |
| 25 | The hours flew by and it seemed no time at all until she was back on the train , reliving every moment as she travelled home . |
| 26 | The weather broke overnight and it blew hard from the south east for the following week which , while postponing our patrols to the north islands , was no great setback to our plans . |
| 27 | Oh Daddy I went into the upstairs bathroom and turned on the light , it went on and it went ping and then turned off again . |
| 28 | Er about this strike and er but time went on and it became obvious that er nobody were going to win only the boss like this boss , course he was he was scratching through , and so they called the strike off and every person who worked at er every firm had a meeting and they all decided to take so many and every firm took so many of the workers and so nobody was ever unemployed as a consequence of the strike which was very very good . |
| 29 | You see the tractor driving it , there 's the load , this was gathering up the hay as it went along and it tipped it over and we had to make the loads you see . |
| 30 | The lift went down and it kept on doing it . |