Example sentences of "and [adv] it [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 and luckily it just took us round the side of the platform and away then .
2 Ford Motor Company produced an Edsul years ago , and nobody liked it and so nobody bought it and so it soon went out of production .
3 He noticed the change in her behaviour but she was more intelligent than he was and so it never occurred to him she had had an affair .
4 Even though she had learned so recently that this was not the authentic voice of her mother , the intellectual knowledge had changed nothing , nothing , and perhaps it never did .
5 Capitalism needed the house of correction , and somehow it magically came into being as a result .
6 They took that first thing before they went upstairs to wake her up and and she did n't know who it was , well she looked up and well it just took her breath away and then she tried to wake her husband up , cos she did n't like that , when he got up , he chased them .
7 The number who cited defence as ‘ extremely important ’ for their voting decision rose from 42 per cent at the start to only 49 per cent in the third week and then it also stabilized at that level .
8 I mean I , my sister used to have one and she said you could take it on the motorway and it 'll just keep up a , a very good speed still with a noisy engines and then it just kept going and going and going .
9 Well he supposed to give up smoking , it had caused clotting in one of his legs and then it just whipped over to the other one , he 's had to have it cut off
10 All that traffic on , right early , and then it just disappeared !
11 And then it just became a drug that I had to take for every day use .
12 And then it just depended , it 's up to you to get yourself so if you know you 're going , well say I was doing Hayes .
13 No windows no doors no nothing er you know , completely gutted it to make it all , to renovate it and then ran out of money and then it just stood there completely empty .
14 And then it just ended up that all lesson they were passing notes and I was walking past dropping notes in his bag and stuff like that .
15 Roy Bailey made his Palace debut at the age of just 17 years , but he only became our regular goalkeeper after his spell of National Service had ended early in 1953 , and then it soon became clear that Roy was a goalkeeper of the highest quality , even though he was performing in a Palace side that was almost invariably struggling .
16 He heard Sammy give an excited bark from the front room and then it immediately sounded muffled .
17 Arctic sunsets can last many hours ; I once watched one sun take four hours to touch the sea , and then it immediately started into reverse and rose again .
18 And erm it was erm like silky material so it looked really , it , it was n't chiffon it was erm no it was sort of satiny silky , it was n't real silk but it was like shiny stuff , and it sort of went in , in and it went a V down there and then it like flowed down and it was very short and because it was a si but it d it was n't tight , I mean it sort of clung , it showed her waist but it did n't , you know , it exaggerated her waist but it did n't like it did n't cling anywhere else really and it just looked quite , it was flowing and it was , it was really smart and it was , I , the sort of erm the material would be erm sort of almost like und er like my pyjamas that , it was that in black kind of halfy satiny silky stuff .
19 It was looking just like a classic boring , musty , fusty Labour party Conference like all the others , and then it suddenly took off with the big OMOV debate and Smith 's cliffhanging win ’ .
20 And then it suddenly struck her what he must be thinking , and she remembered Aunt Nella fainting like this in the early days of her pregnancy with Cousin Lawrence .
21 And then it really brightened up .
22 She felt the fence give a little and then it literally threw her back into the arms of the man with the mask .
23 Very minor on the scale of things but I 've had a car stolen , erm great inconvenience , ca n't believe its going to happen to you , did n't do any thing to have caused this , locked up and took all the precautions , and yet it still happened and some one , some where out there has my car .
24 I was listening to the same genial , slow voice with which the American gentleman had charmed many since his arrival and yet it now contained something unmistakably covert .
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