Example sentences of "[vb past] and [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Entry to this body was much sought after by wealthy young men , because of the prestige it conferred and because it guaranteed proximity to the Emperor . |
| 2 | Erm , until it rained and when it rains |
| 3 | It was a second or two before it opened and when it did her lips parted silently . |
| 4 | At first it will be surrounded and sniffed and if it appears friendly then a good licking follows and if this is accepted by the stranger then it 's usually used for a good old scratch . |
| 5 | An eye movement period started and after it had persisted for 10 minutes , cold water was sprayed on his back . |
| 6 | When he started school , she only had to look after him before school started and after it finished , so she took on a part-time job as a lunch-time playground supervisor at the same school . |
| 7 | ‘ there must be something in the nature of a criminal intent of the kind which means that it is done with the idea of some form of hostility to the police with the intention of seeing that what is done is to obstruct , and that it is not enough merely to show that he intended to do what he did and that it did in fact have the result of the police being obstructed . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I saw exactly what he did and if it had n't been for Stuart those thieves would have got away . |
| 9 | He never ceased to wonder at the irony of expecting miracles from a reliquary in which her bones had once lain for only three days and nights , before being returned reverently to her native Welsh earth ; and even more to be wondered at , the infinite mercy that had transmitted grace through all those miles between , forgiven the presence of a sorry human sinner in the coffin she had quitted , and let the radiance of miracle remain invisibly about her altar , unpredictable , accessible , a shade wanton in where it gave and where it denied , as the stuff of miracles is liable to be , at least to the human view . |
| 10 | There is no way that any party , there is no way that the Liberal party can say to the Labour party or to anyone else , well we 'll support you , we think you 're getting in a mess but it 's your problem , you can carry it because that roughly is what they actually said and if it does go wrong , as it is sure that it will I am quite sure that it will be quite wrong to blame the Labour party entirely for that process , because it wo n't be entirely their fault . |