Example sentences of "and [conj] it [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe that day implanted in me a life-long craving for barbaric splendour , for savagery and colour and the throb of drums , and that it gave me a lasting veneration for long-established custom and ritual , from which would derive later a deep-seated resentment of Western innovations in other lands , and a distaste for the drab uniformity of the modern world . |
| 2 | I 'm sure she enjoyed it and that it gave her a purpose in life . |
| 3 | Actually I was so anxious to have him that I would have said anything — but I did put my marriage first , I made that choice , and although it meant I had many , many years of frustration as an actress , I 'm not sorry I made that choice . |
| 4 | And although it appeared he used his arm to do so , Russian referee Alexei Spirin ignored the appeals for a penalty . |
| 5 | She would need such care and gentleness , and if it killed him he would give it to her , but the passion was raging in him until he could hardly see straight . |
| 6 | You put a bit of pressure on its mandible , or lower beak , and if it broke it was a young bird . |
| 7 | That was true , and if it suggested they had been alerted by the security pass and not by a friend in the underpaid BBC World Service , then so much the better . |
| 8 | And told the cat Hastings , to whom she talked , because cats liked to be talked to , it comforted them , and because it comforted her , too , helped her marshal her thoughts . |
| 9 | For a while it worked ( there was redemption ) ; and while it worked he and I were one , on the banks of the Vistula . |
| 10 | We spent a short time discussing how Sylvia now felt about that long-ago event and whether it caused her any distress to think about it . |
| 11 | But it put too much pressure on the relationship , and when it finished I realised that he 'd resented what I had done . |
| 12 | The farmers had to wait some considerable time for compensation , and when it came it was not the expected bonanza . |
| 13 | Liverpool have always admitted they need Europe to pay their way and when it went they were left with highly paid players on long-term contracts — and the books did n't balance . |
| 14 | He would suffer it , even nurse it along , for a couple of days , and when it went he would forget the case along with the pain . |
| 15 | Turning up here as and when it suited him . |
| 16 | Charlotte realized he was still stage-managing their encounter , moving Holly into and out of the wings as and when it suited him . |
| 17 | The Prosecution said he was a man with a fox like cunning and a devious mind who was ready to deceive and lie as and when it suited him . |
| 18 | She was godmother to my baby , and when it grew she took to it , and used to have it about her at the Castle , saying to everyone it was an orphan . |
| 19 | And when it said you were anxious to see me , I 've been waiting ever since . |
| 20 | But that only happened sometimes and when it did she would take out her account book and force herself to concentrate on its columns till the dangerous exhilaration had gone . |
| 21 | The small , soft sound took a while to register , and when it did she looked up , startled . |
| 22 | Disorganised French industry was slow to get into gear , and when it did it committed the traditional error — not emulated by the Germans — of having too many models . |
| 23 | In the egg with the sun was a goose , and when it emerged it flew honking away : the first sound of this world . |
| 24 | The intimacy with which she and Luke explored each other 's mouths was possession of a kind , so wholly were they given to that long kiss , and when it ended they had to have it all over again , instantly , mouths colliding with an urgency which carried them dangerously beyond mere sensuality . |
| 25 | and when it arrived it turned out to be a donation from the Lord Mayor 's charity . |
| 26 | One night he put a Belgian chocolate inside her and as it melted he licked away the cream . |
| 27 | And he said to me , he 'd marked my , my sum and , and as it happened they was right , all of them . |
| 28 | I remembered what you 'd said about settling down , and as it happened I met a very nice young man from Berlin , a train driver . |
| 29 | I was seven and I was I went to a neighbour 's house and as it happened I was looking through the blooming window when the funeral went past so I was no better off you know . |
| 30 | I do n't have any view erm er on that , if I understand your question , because I think it realistic to assume that post two thousand and six one of the options that we could be reasonably expected to consider , together with the District Council , is the possibility of a further , shall we say , how addition to , a a further phase er onto the new settlement , erm so that the new settlement erm would evolve , if that was the chosen option , and as it evolved it may well be that more of Mr David Curtis 's higher level facilities er would be added . |