Example sentences of "the [noun] and it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Harper claims he does not find his long day tiring : ‘ If it comes from the heart and it comes with divine strength it 's easy . |
| 2 | But personal growth is also shown here as the character of Pip begins to change even before he was given the money and it continues to change after all the money is gone . |
| 3 | We made the mistake of not putting in the trees before the hedges and it 's taken them seven or eight years to get going because it 's so exposed . |
| 4 | Marketing manager Rob Lucas said : ‘ We are fortunate that everyone knows the brand and it has always been popular , particularly with children . ’ |
| 5 | Classical elasticity assumes this to be the case and it has been very successful with continuous media . |
| 6 | Sorry for whinging , but when I get onto the computer and it says ‘ 8 new messages ’ I think Oh goody ! |
| 7 | But still the habit of flying north for the summer persisted among the birds and it has remained to this day , even though the journey is no longer a few miles , but several hundred . |
| 8 | we 've got , is at the back of the house right , and then it goes up there , then that is the houses and it goes down to the sewer in the road , so er |
| 9 | the door is locked from the inside , but you just got to pull the cable and it overrides the lock dun n it ? |
| 10 | She enjoys the cooking and it shows in her wholesome and hearty meals . |
| 11 | It is called the recession and it has blighted the lives of thousands of people who want no more than to earn an honest living and take pride in bringing up their families . |
| 12 | I also have some other tablets , smaller ones , which I have to take if I get a pain across the chest and it persists … what I call a chuntering thing . |
| 13 | This belief in ‘ independence ’ is well entrenched in the West and it has developed out of a general mistrust of centralized political power and of power that had historically not tolerated the free expression of dissenting views . |
| 14 | It is the joule and it has the symbol J. |
| 15 | In Oe. radiatum infections in cattle , the pathogenic effect is also attributed to the nodules ( up to 5.0 mm in diameter ) in the intestine and it appears that as few as 500 larvae are sufficient to produce clinical signs . |
| 16 | You can get to us , you can get on at the ba , at the baths and it comes up past Park and you get off , you get off at the end of Wickham Avenue |
| 17 | Add diced shallots to the vinaigrette and it becomes a sauce for a jellied boeuf à la mode or an oxtail terrine . |
| 18 | I know , he could have knocked me in the eye instead of just at the side and it hurts now . |
| 19 | The clitoris is the female equivalent of the penis and it has a glans clitoridis , which corresponds to the glans penis and is similarly well supplied with sensory nerves . |
| 20 | Firing up is Continental-simple ; just turn the key and it runs . |
| 21 | There 's this big depot ship in the loch and it 's got a flotilla of submarines … |
| 22 | If offers a clear choice to the electorate and it results in one party with a mandate from the people getting on with the job of governing . |
| 23 | In some cases , especially among people of higher status , the letter is regarded as a more polite way of asking for the interview and it helps differentiate the interviewer , when he or she calls , from marauding salesmen . |
| 24 | As the fish enters the gullet , the mucus clings closely to the skin of the fish as well as the walls of the gullet and it closes behind the disappearing tail , thus preventing any salt water from entering the stomach . |
| 25 | However , not only is the wind downwind of a sail affected but also that behind the board , since the sail curves the wind and it takes a few board lengths for it to revert to its normal direction . |
| 26 | In the main , however , policing continues to be publicly concerned to prevent and detect individual attempts to steal the property of the citizen and it suits the police 's purpose for their community role to be well broadcast , for on those rare occasions when they have expanded their controls to include the activities of the middle classes , they have found themselves on less certain ground . |
| 27 | As the air catches the membranes , the fish is lifted above the waves and it glides for hundreds of metres leaving its pursuers baffled . |
| 28 | Staphylococcus aureus and alpha haemolytic streptococci were the most commonly identified organisms and were usually isolated from the biopsy channel of the endoscope and it seems likely that needle tip contamination is the chief culprit . |
| 29 | O'Neill said : ‘ It 's bloody awful for everyone associated with the horse and it has n't really sunk in yet . |
| 30 | If a boat heeled right over it 's not good for the boat and it slows you down , it is far better to reef , the technique is just the same afloat as it was ashore . |