Example sentences of "it and [pron] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 So John came up and we said er we were wondering who could judge th Christmas card competition and he was saying oh I do n't know , and then th the P T A chairman came up erm we said oh perhaps you should judge the Christmas card competition erm and she said well Melissa is judging it and we said Pardon !
2 ‘ He was up to his neck in it and we used rescue lines to haul him out .
3 ‘ He was up to his neck in it and we used rescue lines to haul him out .
4 There was some problem that one of them went back and talked to , presumably dad , perhaps mum though , erm and came back with a lovely engineered solution , but that did n't matter — they had fun doing it and they had fun trying these things and , believe me , the answer were ever so close to what the design I was amazed with what they produced .
5 I love it and nobody takes care of it !
6 I said just do it and I said thing is if she just ignores you I said you know not to bother next year .
7 But your Report that it was a gas-lid — I was able to go ahead with it and I got compensation . ’
8 Anyway it drew my attention to it and I thought god god .
9 Burn it and you get carbon dioxide , water and a lot of heat .
10 A scattering of maggots or whatever that hits the surface in , say , an 18 inch circle ( which is the least ‘ spread ’ you can hope for ) will spread far more than that by the time the current has had its way with it and it reaches bottom .
  Next page