Example sentences of "and [conj] it [vb past] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Capron said it had come to his attention that I 'd been meeting you and that it had to stop . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is clear at that stage the London committee envisaged funding its proposed activities by subscriptions , and that it intended to concern itself with the diseases of cows and sheep as well as horses . |
| 6 | Original signatories : Albania ( withdrew 1968 ) ; Bulgaria ; Czechoslovakia [ see below ] ; East Germany ( withdrew in September 1990 prior to unification with West Germany ) ; Hungary ( declared in June 1990 that it would not take part in military exercises in 1990 and that it intended to withdraw from the Pact by the end of 1991 ) ; Poland [ see below ] ; Romania ; Soviet Union . |
| 7 | But if that activity became more strident and refused to take no for an answer ; if it became more popular , participatory , and direct , taking to the streets and becoming something called " extra-parliamentary politics " ; and if it threatened to overload the capacity of the state , then it was condemned — and condemned as at odds with the liberal-democracy of the British constitution . |
| 8 | As a vanguard , in spite of one or two sensational assassinations , it was not going to get very far unless and until it managed to co-ordinate widespread resistance to the French . |
| 9 | It was quite a lengthy questionnaire and because it had to cater for teachers whose experiences of SSE had differed considerably , for some teachers was not easy to complete . |
| 10 | But do n't worry too much about the massive effect of these clouds over Arizona ; these are local and temporary , produced while the cloud was compact and before it spread to produce a much smaller effect over a much bigger area . |
| 11 | They hung it to an almond tree in the square by its ankles so that everyone could see it , and when it began to rot they burned it in a bonfire , for they could not determine whether its bastard nature was that of an animal to be thrown in the river or a human being to be buried … |
| 12 | At the moment it was the traditional tale of going up to Jackson 's at 10 in the morning after an all-night session at Dobell 's — wine we drank in those days , Poppet , wine that was wine not this filthy MUCK — and demanding double portions of oysters all round and when it came to pay no one had a penny , so Dobell , who even then still had the charm of a boy of twenty , and a slim waist to go with it , said he would bring in one of the engravings from his collection , and Gaston , who always recognised a gentleman — not like the CLODS who run hostelries nowadays — with tears in his eyes said it was an honour , an honour to serve Mr Dobell and his friends . |
| 13 | And when it started to wind , they 'd bang the coal on , they 'd bang the empties off and my job was to er tt push the empties , split them , split the empties , |
| 14 | It dragged their small boat for several miles and as it struggled to get free it spat out a human torso , some pieces of wetsuit and a face mask . |
| 15 | Finally the tram got underway and as it started to pull up at the end of the track by the foot of Duke Street Hill Carrie was already out of her seat and waiting on the platform at the rear of the vehicle , with Fred at her side gripping her arm for fear that she would fall off before it actually stopped . |