Example sentences of "and [noun] [vb past] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They agreed that the letter about which Clarissa was so upset must be from the War Office , and Peregrine said it made him feel almost cowardly to have survived the German breakthrough , the evacuation of the beaches and now this latest blow on the very day the capitulation of France was announced . |
| 2 | and Lucy said it fits him lovely , but she was saving all the blue clothes |
| 3 | Rachaela and Ruth knew it did not mean anything . |
| 4 | But only a small group of teachers and parents saw it get underway . |
| 5 | A miasma of despair rose from the cluster of black Workshops and Fenella felt it billow out and engulf them in its sick , cold desolation . |
| 6 | A tall chimney above the heating plant and workshops made it look rather like a factory under guard . |
| 7 | Not least , the absence of any serious rationing of consumer goods , and the large number of exemptions from military service for skilled workers and farmers made it appear that the regime was well in control of developments , did not fear a war on the 1914–18 scale , and was even rather generous in its provisioning arrangements . |
| 8 | Rosalba pressed her sister 's hand , and Caterina felt it dry and hot , clasped in hers . |
| 9 | There is no final dividend and Young said it did not expect to make a payment for 1992 . |
| 10 | Myra gave her a gaily wrapped parcel , and Claudia opened it to find a beautiful silk scarf printed with white and pink roses on a jade-green background . |
| 11 | The fire glowed and Wynne-Jones kept it fed . |
| 12 | At 0630hrs a PBY spotted a Japanese midget submarine as it approached the harbour defences and shot and depth charged it to sink in the harbour . |
| 13 | He opened a second door , which again had an elegant stained glass transom above it , and Belinda found it led to an open veranda that must connect with the one they had sat on for drinks . |
| 14 | Reviewing Dunster in the Financial Times , Isabel Quigly described the book as ‘ masterly ’ and Boyd Tonkin in New Statesman and Society thought it purred along ‘ like a vintage but comfily upholstered limo ’ . |
| 15 | To the left a group of barren islets , suggesting ruins of stone walls , towers and block houses , had its foundations set in a blue sea that itself looked solid , so still and stable did it lie below my feet ; even the track of light from the westering sun shone smoothly , without that animated glitter which tells of an imperceptible ripple ( 2 ) . |
| 16 | That was an excess of suspicion , for the letter was drafted by David Hunt , vice Bevir who was ill , and Hunt made it conform to precedents . |
| 17 | I made one last effort to see if my parachute was still there , and to my amazement and relief found it had not been torn off after all . |
| 18 | She got a round of applause when she 'd finished , a modest round and Busacher suspected it had been started by Willi . |
| 19 | Despite anecdotal reports of serious bugs in Microsoft Corp 's new MS-DOS 6.0 , PC Week Labs says it has been unable to reproduce in a controlled laboratory environment any of the data-threatening errors specifically attributed to MS-DOS 6.0 or its DoubleSpace component , adding that it believes that many of the reported data-destroying errors can be attributed to the sudden introduction of SMARTDRV , the MS-DOS and Windows cache program , onto previously uncached systems — SMARTDRV caches disk writes , and any sudden power-down can cause unrecoverable file and disk errors — but be that as it may , Microsoft is taking the reports of data loss sufficiently seriously that it has pledged to do whatever it takes to track down and purge any serious flaws , although it has found none , and InfoWorld reported it found several problems , including one in the DoubleSpace data compression — but Microsoft said two of its engineers looked into but could not replicate the problems InfoWorld saw . |
| 20 | When they tried to get rid of toxic waste in Bolsover , the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food had it sent to Severn Trent in the west midlands . |
| 21 | The winged creature had finished with the boy now and Nuadu thought it had taken its fill of the strange silvery liquid . |
| 22 | It was born on a Sunday afternoon and Carrie and Albert and Nick saw it happen . |
| 23 | Someone had left a copy of the Sun , and Sergei grabbed it saying , ‘ Ah , your free press ! ’ |
| 24 | And Jonathan said it looked like . |
| 25 | Ken Stevens loved both his girls and Rachel knew it had taken him a long time to come to terms with Jennifer 's illness ; she doubted he would ever forgive David Markham for walking out on her at such a crucial time . |
| 26 | It had since been rebuilt ; its arched windows and roofs made it look like a Russian provincial home . |
| 27 | England had both ( see below ) , and Swegen forced it to disgorge large amounts of coin and precious metal , while also taking plunder and gaining a reputation as a successful commander which must have both drawn further contingents to his banners and strengthened his position in Scandinavia . |