Example sentences of "and [vb past] [subord] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as in uffish thought he stood , The Jabberwock , with eyes of flame , Came whiffling through the tulgey wood , And burbled as it came ! |
| 2 | It had ‘ failed to make my flesh creep ’ , he reports guardedly , in a phrase he was to repeat years later about it in his life of Ronald Knox ( 1959 ) , and failed because it had denied the existence of the soul and omitted all mention of the Church . |
| 3 | and trembled as it fed — |
| 4 | I followed the telephone cord and found where it went into the wall . |
| 5 | It remains true that , apart from the foral provinces , government became more effective , defined , and concentrated as it approached the subject . |
| 6 | This picture of a universe that started off very hot and cooled as it expanded is in agreement with all the observational evidence that we have today . |
| 7 | Maybe we are like a photocopy of God that got a bit crumpled and smudged as it came out of the machine so that his image in us has got a bit spoilt , but that does not alter the fact that every person has something of God about them . |
| 8 | McDaid denied any links with the IRA and withdrew after it became clear that the junior partner in the government , the Progressive Democrats ( PDs ) , would not vote for a reshuffle including him . |
| 9 | Now I sat beside her and watched as the cloth was folded and refolded until it became a nubin . |
| 10 | There the microscopic ovum was revealed and followed as it started its monthly journey to await possible fertilisation . |
| 11 | It was travelling fast and wobbled as it hit the bumpy piece of road under the railway bridge . |
| 12 | Bernice shook loose the amiable scrap of nothing and watched as it fluttered away , lost in moments in the gentle glow of Moloch 's endless day . |
| 13 | Another avenue of enjoyable information-seeking — sadly , not as well-known and patronized as it deserves to be — is the programme of private gardens opened in aid of various charities like the Gardeners ' Benevolent Fund , from whom you can obtain a county-by-county week-by-week guide giving details of location , times of opening and points of interest . |
| 14 | Richard Montague-Smith , who was 15 , took his brother 's Escort car without consent and died when it left the road at more than 70 miles an hour on the Birdlip bypass near Gloucester earlier this year . |
| 15 | Looking back I suppose it was then that I started to brood about a problem that grew and grew until it burst out into the open at the World Championships . |
| 16 | It grew with the power it was picking up , grew and grew until it filled the cave . |
| 17 | He sipped his coffee and hissed because it scalded his lip . |
| 18 | He started punching another young feller and we stopped the gig , and said if it continued we just were n't going to play . ’ |
| 19 | She listened for the click of his door and relaxed when it came , only to be aware of every sound he made . |
| 20 | A red haze swam in front of Amiss 's eyes , but he remembered the dead Trueman and waited until it had passed . |
| 21 | Handing him one of the cans , she drank from her own , and coughed as it went down the wrong way . |
| 22 | The tram whined and sparked as it pulled up at the fare stage near the Dennistoun Palais and Whitehill Street . |
| 23 | She said she had seen the programme and wondered if it had spoiled anything for me , but I was able to reassure her that it had improved my life . |