Example sentences of "and [adv] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must have underestimated the benefit of my practice with the neighbour 's cat , since my attempt seemed to sail on and on before it thudded to the ground . |
| 2 | The British attitude to Europe remained as functional and piecemeal as it had been in the time of Ernest Bevin after 1945 . |
| 3 | His arm waggled , as if he were groping for something , and then his hand appeared as softly and suddenly as it had vanished : holding the fifth ball . |
| 4 | The severe turbulence , with the jet bucking up and down as it encountered windshear , had Myeloski wishing he was sitting in the back . |
| 5 | It was moving all right , and just because it had started off slowly did n't mean there was n't something huge and unstoppable about it . |
| 6 | Crossley had to move quickly to save a glancing header from Sharp and just when it looked as if Forest might be more grateful for a replay Chapman won the tie . |
| 7 | I 'd allowed the door to swing to behind me and just as it clicked shut , someone knocked . |
| 8 | Three DFC 's and one DSO have been won in Sugar , and just as it began its career with a daylight attack , it finished with another . |
| 9 | Certainly economic considerations were supreme and just as it did not make sense to build cinemas just for the rich so it would have been crazy to make films just for the religious , the doctrinaire , and the intellectual . |
| 10 | This chapter will therefore examine also whether the action project had any effect upon cognitive impairment ( Did it help to delay deterioration , or even improve , mental state ? ) ; whether dementia sufferers in the action project expressed less worry , sadness , loneliness than those in the control samples ; whether the project helped people to maintain their capacity to cope with certain tasks or activities of daily living ; and finally whether it succeeded in obtaining more of other community services for its clients than were obtained by those in the control sample ( eg more home help , meals-on-wheels , day care , home nursing , and so on ) . |
| 11 | Halfway through the final allegro the world came into existence again , as quietly and effortlessly as it had gone . |
| 12 | ‘ Therefore the problem that had emerged in 1985 has come as a considerable shock to us and I would say that the present directors of Mogul Ireland — ourselves — have acted promptly , decisively and responsibly since it came to our attention . |
| 13 | I noticed that she was very modest in front of me , going through mild contortions putting on her undies beneath her dressing-gown , and once when it fell off , revealing her shabbily but quite decently clad in a mauve rayon slip , she snatched it up with a quick " Sorry dear " . |
| 14 | He had been foiled in his first attempt to reach it by the arrival of Jos , and ever since it had been impossible to get away unnoticed . |
| 15 | She circumvented fat tourists in fancy dress , civic marshals in baggy overalls , then a personal camera drone , its head swivelling back and forth as it scanned the canal for its owner at home . |
| 16 | When he was approached at the end of 1987 to become the Pru 's finance director he was tempted away , partly because the tremendous growth of PW had created ‘ more of a loss of identity as individual partners ’ and partly because it offered a new and exciting role . |
| 17 | In a sense , this was a line which had been followed by John Hunter ; but his heirs in Britain had not pursued it , partly because of a national aversion to the vivisection which seemed a necessary part of it and partly because it seemed materialistic . |
| 18 | The graphs show that the feedforward net 's output was less close to the ( new ) ideal output , and also that it varied quite a lot . |
| 19 | From the mid-1640s , the celebration of Christmas was forbidden , Puritans arguing both that the festival was pagan in origin and also that it gave licence to ‘ carnal and sensual delights ’ . |
| 20 | However , it retreated from this position , partly because it feared strong adverse reaction particularly from its political Right , and also because it had seriously underestimated the number of Arabs in Gaza , at 100,000–150,000 when it was nearer 280,000 . |
| 21 | From what she 'd gleaned from Janine he came and went like a bloody ghost , flitting in and out as it suited him . |
| 22 | The wind grabbed him under the arms and flipped him outwards and back as it had the torn raven banner already . |
| 23 | It was something that she would never have thought possible and now that it had actually happened , now that she knew she was n't dreaming , she wanted it to last . |
| 24 | Not to answer the summons made matters worse , as it had always done , and particularly if it concerned a mortgage . |
| 25 | Academic English was a recent invention , largely of the inter-war years ; and even where it existed it had commonly stopped with the early nineteenth century . |
| 26 | And even when it became clearer — in a purely physical sense — as far as understanding it went she was as far from clarity as ever . |
| 27 | Not until the second half did Saints show any of their best style and even when it came it was never sustained . |
| 28 | And even if it meant bringing her back empty , he was still bringing her back . |
| 29 | And even if it went down , at least it would be a heroic failure — a genuine attempt to break the mould and bring back standards of quality and decency . |
| 30 | But as the limits of the human memory did not enable men to retain beyond a very limited number of names ; and even if it had , as it would have required a most inconvenient portion of time , to run over in discourse , as many names of individuals , and of individual qualities , as there is occasion to refer to in discourse , it was necessary to have contrivances of abridgment . |