Example sentences of "and [verb] [conj] it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually Frankie and I were called in by Mum and told to get a wash and change as it was nearly time to go . |
| 2 | Mystics are aware that their experience can never be explained in rational terms and insist that it is unhelpful and can even be dangerous to attempt to define the ultimate reality in terms of reason and logic . |
| 3 | The must is heated in a cauldron and boiled until it is reduced to one third of its volume to make the Arrobo . |
| 4 | We have to examine the reasons for and against the directive and judge whether it is justified in order to decide whether its mistake , if it is not justified , is large or small . |
| 5 | The Governors considered the job description too vague and asked that it be made precise . |
| 6 | Its former owner , the late Audrey Barrie-Brown left it to the Roman Research Trust and asked that it be turned into an educational centre . |
| 7 | USL , reportedly working along similar lines ( UX No 383 ) , has declined to comment officially , and asked whether it was developing its own solution or buying the technology in from elsewhere , director of low-end Unix systems , Bill Traber , said ‘ I ca n't answer that . ’ |
| 8 | As a friend of Linde 's , I was rather embarrassed , however , when I was later sent his paper by a scientific journal and asked whether it was suitable for publication . |
| 9 | Elsie joined me on the river bank and asked if it was hot enough for me . |
| 10 | I cheekily went across to a detached cottage and asked if it was possible to get a bite to eat . |
| 11 | Eventually , thunder rumbled in the distance , and he looked up and asked if it was gun-fire ; when I said I thought not , he moved to the door saying , ‘ If Mr Colin recommends them , I 'll take all three ’ . |
| 12 | I filed that away and asked if it was all right for the girls to stay until the doctors had done their rounds . |
| 13 | Keeping a big horse is expensive ; I know , I 've got one , and when I worked out what he cost me to keep I got to £50 per week and stopped because it was too frightening . |
| 14 | So if you buy when the trust is on an offer basis and sell when it is on a bid basis , you will suffer an effective charge of the full spread . |
| 15 | ‘ You all know , ’ Jeremiah went on , ‘ that under the terms of the trust that we are required to manage the land and sell when it 's no longer profitable . |
| 16 | As always when drawing , I stand back from the piece at regular intervals to get an overall feel as to how the drawing is developing , and to see if it is uniform in shade and texture . |
| 17 | As always when drawing , I stand back from the piece at regular intervals to get an overall feel as to how the drawing is developing , and to see if it is uniform in shade and texture . |
| 18 | I just want to know those three things — the extent of the damage , the location of this ticking noise and to see if it 's possible to remove this atom bomb or whatever , which I 'm convinced in advance is impossible . |
| 19 | Suffering fever , blindness and paralysis , they reached Lake Tanganyika in 1857 but it was Speke who eventually found Lake Victoria and realized that it was the reservoir which fed the great river . |
| 20 | As the struggle progressed he came to see the inadequacies of the term and realized that it was too constricted in its meaning and gave rise to confusion and misunderstanding . |
| 21 | warrants and represents that it is the true and lawful owner of all rights in the Work and the Converted Text of the Work as well as the Trade Marks and that such Work , Converted Text of the Work and Trade Marks do not and shall not infringe the rights of any third party and that is fully empowered to make this Agreement . |
| 22 | And depending whether it 's a rectangular plot or whether it is n't or not or if it 's slightly at an angle then some of the corner houses have a fairly long gardens . |
| 23 | That statement was swiftly followed by a countersuit against Phar-Mor 's management , claiming unspecified damages and maintaining that it was unable to audit the company accurately because its financial statements were altered . |
| 24 | The ceremony has died out in many areas over the past hundred years , so it was a good idea to revive it.There 's cider and singing and it 's good fun . |
| 25 | I saw no point in lying to an already acerbic-looking policeman , and agreed that it was . |
| 26 | spends his day blending the malt and seeing that it is despatched correctly . |
| 27 | And seeing as it was my brainchild , would you not say it was possibly the best commercial of all time ? |
| 28 | Corbett stared at the hard-eyed French envoy and realised that it was impossible to press the matter . |
| 29 | He discovered that Bob was twenty-five , four years his junior , and realised that it was the first time since his brother Joe 's marriage , when they were seventeen and twenty , that he had had a companion of roughly his own age . |
| 30 | Summoned to collect a donation from an address on the east side of the city , a few days before the Election , I noticed a poster in the window , and realised that it was the home of a candidate ( now the Member ) for Leith . |