Example sentences of "and [conj] it [verb] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 And this , in spite of some effort on my part to prevent it , led to the subject of science fiction , and where it had gone since the original efforts of Swift and Verne and H. G. Wells .
2 Any models between where the ball strikes the ground and where it comes to land are hit .
3 It 's really getting things done in , in a like a , I du n no , a disciplined manner , like an ordered man , so each , what to do the , we discuss what we , what we 've got an action plan together and where it 's fired at so it does work .
4 We 've heard a lot this morning er about the merits of client server and where it 's come from in the last five years .
5 I know from where it comes and where it wishes to get to .
6 Children need to learn that y is a substitute letter for i at the end of words , and that it likes to change back to i when it can , that is , when there is something after it .
7 Midland also admitted failing to supervise the fund managers to prevent them concentrating their stock holdings too narrowly and that it failed to maintain a register of the holders of six of the trusts or the amount of their holdings .
8 Although Lee stated that he did not intend to stand as a candidate in the presidential elections , the new party announced that it would contest the election and that it planned to choose a candidate by the end of October .
9 Kerr reported on the visit at the July meeting of the Council , drawing attention to ‘ the adverse criticisms contained in this report ’ , emphasizing that it had been a strong visiting party , and that it had reached its conclusions unanimously .
10 There was no 1940 general election and by 1945 the voters remembered both that the Labour Party had shared responsibility for winning the war and that it had opposed the Conservative policies which led to the war .
11 Overall , it could by the end of the transitional phase claim that it had changed the basis of economic competition by removing many restrictive practices and that it had eased some of the pain of economic decline by its policies towards those aging coal and steel plants that were coming to the end of a useful life .
12 The advocates of " Unity " argued , however , that a considerable change had come over the Communist Party and that it had given up its " social fascist " accusations .
13 Amnesty said that the torture of those detained by the army and police was a daily routine , and that it had received reports of more than 200 cases of torture over the past two years , but believed the true figure to be much higher .
14 Capron said it had come to his attention that I 'd been meeting you and that it had to stop . ’
15 What was striking was that the women artists were reshaping an inherited iconographic language and that it had become theirs to stake out as their own : the language of the body .
16 I think he once did say to me that he was very disturbed at how much ‘ coke ’ David was doing and that it had got to the point where he did n't hide it from deFries , whereas he did for quite a while at first .
17 United States President George Bush announced on March 14 that , following the electoral defeat of President Daniel Ortega Saavedra , the US government was lifting its five-year economic embargo on Nicaragua , and that it had requested Congress to grant approval by April 5 of $300 million in immediate economic aid and of a further $200 million the following year .
18 The PRD and PAN claimed that the elections had been a " scandalous fraud " , that the PRI had organized widespread ballot rigging , and that it had used violence to guarantee victory .
19 She knew the recent conversation had been fantastical , with faint cruel undertones , and that it had excluded Betty , who was a good little thing .
20 It was only some years later that Jacques learned of the Board 's initiatives and that it had failed because members of the county council had been deeply suspicious of the radicalism associated with liberal adult education in the industrial areas of the county .
21 All he could say was that it had to be called a great and profound change , and that it had happened , ‘ I have a feeling of being at home when I am with her , as though she gives me my own hearth , a feeling that our lives are interwoven . ’
22 In particular , Chavan cited evidence that the LTTE was encouraging secessionist activities in the southern state of Tamil Nadu , and that it had established links with the banned United Liberation Front of Assam ( ULFA ) .
23 The Oil Ministry announced on March 6 that damage assessment was under way and that it had embarked on a large-scale rehabilitation effort to restore buildings , pipelines and damaged reservoirs .
24 MacDonald told him that if he had tried to stop it , there would have been a riot , and that it had required all his influence to prevent his followers from singing the ‘ Red Flag ’ in the House of Commons itself on the night the Baldwin Government fell .
25 The arrest of three police officers and two military captains who had been members of the elite UESAT unit of the Panamanian Defence Forces commanded by the former dictator Gen. Manuel Noriega , led to suggestions that a serious coup attempt had been intended , and that it had enjoyed wide support from the police .
26 Somehow , she knew it had been her one chance to reproduce , and that it had passed .
27 Er , certainly in , in the first paragraph we would say that we have drawn attention over the years to the nuisance of illegal parking erm , by travellers particularly in Stewards erm while travellers have the right to live their own lifestyle we also believe that other residents have the right to live free from that kind of nuisance and problem and that it does need to be addressed somehow .
28 It was greatly feared , in fact , that the structure of employment was such that it supplied the rising generation with little discipline and even less skill , and that it threatened to produce an endless tide of loafers , unemployables and ne'er-do-wells who had been thrown on to the scrap heap in their late teens or early twenties .
29 We know then that the legend is false and that it became attached to a much older custom , but what was the Horngarth itself and for what purpose was it erected ?
30 The firm also says it is continuing to make steady progress on Iceberg , and that it expects to enter the internal beta test portion of the programme in July or August , and hopes to ship production units a year late , in the fourth quarter of this year .
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