Example sentences of "the [noun pl] and it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | ‘ There was a review of Bolger in the Times and it said that although the city of culture had n't been a success the Dublin Theatre Festival was , ’ he says . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | ‘ It only came a couple of inches over the white line , he hit the brakes and it shot one way and then the other , ’ he said . |
| 7 | We did n't stop talking like but the talk s just sort of stemmed around the house and the kids and it did n't go any further than that . |
| 8 | ‘ It was hard to fight my way out of the reserves and it took a long time for me to recover . ’ |
| 9 | As the air catches the membranes , the fish is lifted above the waves and it glides for hundreds of metres leaving its pursuers baffled . |
| 10 | Marie and Bella sat on until the sun left the gardens and it began to grow cold . |
| 11 | Then she had the severest strain put on the control of her newly awakened ear-boxing predilection when his mouth twitched at the corners and it seemed , for a moment , that her sarcasm had amused him . |
| 12 | Take a step back , view it from the angles and it becomes a sort of absurdist roman fleuve , a Dada- Climbers with which anyone with a tape-recorder and a gift for transcription would run away with the Boardman Tasker prize . |
| 13 | But they are the exceptions and it has to be stressed we are looking at the patient in a wider context . |
| 14 | And so we 've got to desire to have our broken relationship with God restored , you see we need to receive what God offers in Christ , the fact that Christ died for our sins does not mean a thing to us until we say yes I accept it for me , I believe you died for me , I receive it , I 'm linked into it , you see your house can be , let me give you a very simple illustration , your house is linked up with er Eastern Electricity and there is so many er I du n no what , what the what it is , but there is the power there , the there are , there are kilo watts of power on tap in your home , but in the winter you 're cold , when it gets dark outside , it 's dark inside the cooker , the electric cooker does n't work , the fridge is not operating the food is going rotten , you ca n't watch a programme on television , why , because you have n't plugged into the source of the power , it 's as simple as that , you ca n't blame the Electricity Board , it 's not Eastern Electricity 's fault it 's your fault because all the plugs are out of the sockets and it does n't matter what the Electricity Board does short of blowing up your house , they can do nothing for you and it does n't matter what God has done in Christ until we as it were to also plug in , it does n't mean a thing to us , but the moment we link in , that 's the change , the lights come on , there 's , there 's heat there , the stove works , the , the radio , the television , the record player , they 're all operating , the freezer 's working , the situation has changed , we needs to receive what God offers us in Christ |
| 15 | It will be the first time bosses have been allowed to officially join in the celebrations and it marks a victory for Lawrie McMenemy , who has conducted a 15-year campaign on behalf of fellow managers . |
| 16 | It is like the surface of an orange : if you look at it close up , it is all curved and wrinkled , but if you look at it from a distance , you do n't see the bumps and it appears to be smooth . |
| 17 | It was Gre he was out at the Caithes and it blew up a a gale a Westerly gale and blew him across to Norway you see . |
| 18 | The sun had moved behind the rooftops and it cast shadows halfway up the little houses on the opposite side of the turning . |
| 19 | The weather influences the actual location of the rabbits and it helps determine whether they are underground or on the surface . |
| 20 | The burden inevitably fell mainly on the mothers and it seemed that their loneliness could at least be lessened if they had a regular opportunity to share their experiences . |
| 21 | again which they 've had have n't they ? , for how many weeks in the year do you actually attend cos I said that you do n't get grant for the holidays and it stipulates the term |
| 22 | Lack of an alternative summer team sport protected cricket between the wars and it benefited from a brief post-1945 resurgence in numbers , but then numbers fell so dramatically that by 1965 they stood at about a third of the post-1945 years . |
| 23 | ‘ After that , totally by chance , I was asked to go on the road with Mike and the Mechanics and it fitted around the 1989 work I was doing with the Floyd . |
| 24 | In addition G. lamarcki does not have a dense covering of granules in the oral region and ventral part of the arms and it has a maximum of five arm spines not four as in G. caputmedusae . |
| 25 | On our first day of trading we took £8.36 , which delighted us , but a local health nut had eaten the geraniums and it cost £6 to replace them . |
| 26 | Nearly all its remaining MPs were from the coalfields and it looked once more like the Labour Representation Committee of the pre-war period . |
| 27 | And these are all based on the allowances and it does n't matter if those are allowances are correct as long as we use the same incorrect allowances all the way through . |
| 28 | Hodge and Parker commanded the midfield , Crosby and Rice , strongly supported by Laws and Pearce , drove forward on the flanks and it seemed only a matter of time before the right sort of cross reached Chapman or Clough . |
| 29 | Ownership of LCH is quite independent of the markets and it deals with the markets on a commercial basis . |
| 30 | Ianthe went over to the window and flung open the shutters and it occurred to Penelope that she was probably one of those people who did n't approve of smoking in bedrooms . |