Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] and it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | all they do is diddle some keys and it goes off to T S B and then it goes into your account , that 's the way it 's supposed to work |
| 2 | The Collector had sat a good deal in this chair over the past few days and it had come to affect his habits of thought . |
| 3 | ‘ Now , Roger , it 's obvious — you have worn that chain for a few days and it has left a mark . |
| 4 | She 'd lived without carpets for the first few weeks and it had been nearly a year before she 'd been able to ditch her old and undersized curtains . |
| 5 | Even if you go to a great party with some friends and it lasts only three hours , so what ? |
| 6 | Although it looked quite smart and had a wonderful aroma of apples and pears , there were very few bubbles and it tasted a bit like dry cider or sparkling apple juice . |
| 7 | The college says health workers have been deterred from getting help because of the tactics of some newspapers and it condemns the media ‘ for failing to report the reality of risk from HIV positive health care staff . |
| 8 | Where the remedy has been too ‘ strong ’ for the patient 's vitality this has always shown itself on the first few doses and it has merely been necessary to wait a day or two for the over-reaction to settle and then to begin again using greater dilution . |
| 9 | We can get down on the high street any of these times and it drops us back up here . |
| 10 | Frau Hoflin hoped it had n't been an affair , but even if it had , well , things were different these days and it did n't matter too much as long as it was over . |
| 11 | Not only does it constitute the object of its own criticism , it also contains a number of theories of this criticism , and in a recursive move that can truly be termed deconstructive , it presents criticism of these theories and it narrativizes this criticism . |
| 12 | There are difficulties in these techniques and it has proved more effective most of the time to use techniques which involve perception rather than direct interference with brain processes . |
| 13 | In other experiments , Papi has shown that pigeons do not home accurately if their nostrils are blocked , or if their olfactory nerve is cut , or if they are experimentally distracted by a strong smell ; but other experimenters have failed to repeat these results and it has proved impossible to train pigeons to make the relevant olfactory distinctions ( which is a standard , and powerful , method of testing for sensory abilities — p. 43 . |
| 14 | He said , He saw one boy hit one of these tops and it went straight over a house top . |
| 15 | But it 's a dangerous strategy though because when you start implementing these things then they can go out of hand and you 've got these measures and it 's , it 's turned on |
| 16 | The parties catered for such large numbers that ‘ it made it virtually impossible to police these events and it gave drug users and drug pushers maximum protection from the police — and all of that was quite deliberate . |
| 17 | What was it Dr Johnson said — ‘ Love is only one of many passions and it has no great influence on the sum of life ’ . ’ |
| 18 | Although written from a French perspective , the essence of the Charter is relevant for all cultures and it reflects the values promoted by WACC through its worldwide programme of media awareness seminars and workshops . |
| 19 | There have been smiths for very many years and it seems likely that workings excavated at Killellan by Colin Burgess in 1974 were those of a bronze age smith . |
| 20 | It all sounds a bit complicated and slightly confusing , but the system has evolved over many years and it works . |
| 21 | The inquest went on for many days and it had all the appearances of the public inquiry that was to follow . |
| 22 | My detectives had established your many moves and it did not take much intelligence to realise why . ’ |
| 23 | Erm as far as I 'm concerned Mr Donson 's point that there are significant areas of the county which are covered by other policies , national parks , heritage coast , high quality agricultural land , Erm that may be true but there are significant areas which are not covered by those policies and it seems to me that if erm the county structure plan is going to provide a strategy then it should be relatively comprehensive . |
| 24 | The man threw more sticks and it jumped again , ecstatic , diving and swimming , in and out . |
| 25 | I have had the advantage of reading those speeches and it seems appropriate that I should set out my conclusions without repeating in detail the facts and points for decision in those authorities . |
| 26 | There was a large pool of unemployed in those days and it seemed to us that no sooner were you in than they were trying to get you off the job . |
| 27 | The answer is that they told us that they tried this several times and it did not work . |
| 28 | You can customise it to your own preferences and it comes with an excellent on-disk manual . |
| 29 | In 1889 a Select Committee heard another plea from a male trade unionist for the restriction of married women 's work on the grounds that ‘ when the married women turn into the domestic workshops they become competitors against their own husbands and it requires a man and his wife to earn what the man alone would earn if she were not in the shop ’ . |
| 30 | The cross members and bulkhead outriggers are in the same places and it fits straight on . |