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

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1 The sudden change of colour on the wall had upset its sense of direction and it buzzed about angrily and eventually it came into the porch where I was sitting and it stayed there for a few minutes and then went outside searching the wall again for the entrance .
2 It was raw , frank and eventually it appeared in print .
3 ‘ Once upon a time I 'd 've made you turn religious , ’ said Constance , and suddenly it occurred to Scarlet that really she was already religious , as anyone who had borne a child must surely be : not in the conventional sense but rather as a passenger on a train would expect someone to be at the controls .
4 St William 's has presented itself as a prime mover and so it falls to St William 's to work out how to express itself as a managing agent .
5 And so it continues throughout his ministry .
6 And so it continued over the next two years ; more and more presents , each one more costly than the last .
7 ‘ I had little hope of re-employment , and so it seemed to me that the only thing to do was to set up in business , ’ he explains .
8 The publicity the film attracted in Cannes followed Nicholson back to America where it was due for New York opening in July which , as Karen Black told me later , was an odd time : ‘ It was a college film and so it goes on release at exactly the same time as the colleges are closing down for the summer and everyone is going home . ’
9 He kindly gave me a lift home en route to get his bike : he had a nasty fall off it last week and so it had to be repaired .
10 And so it came to be that the bewitching gesture of her father 's secretary walking down the golden path ( which bewitched me when I saw the woman in the swimsuit take leave of the lifeguard ) had completely gone to sleep in her .
11 And so it came about that all over the land children were assembled in groups of 40 and made to learn the facts set out in the books written by Messrs Hall & Stevens , Warner & Martin , Durrell & Palmer , and Potter and Ridout .
12 And so it happens in Court 13 .
13 And so it remained until the mid-1950s , by which time controls were as deficient in " moral considerations " as they were on " logical and economic grounds " .
14 On the contrary , ‘ Hinduism tells everyone to worship God according to his own faith or Dharma , and so it lives at peace with all the religions ’ .
15 And so it proved for Paula , whose father died when she was 29 ‘ leaving me with no senior protector and no-one to love me unconditionally .
16 A close contest between two evenly matched crews had been predicted and so it proved in conditions that were considerably better than had been anticipated .
17 With such tourist pulling potential it was only a matter of time before the line of sections of it would hum again to wheel flange above fishplate … and so it proved in 1972 when a narrow gauge scheme was hatched to open 5.5. miles of trackbed between Pant ( Merthyr Tydfil ) and Torpantau .
18 However , the fundamental theorem says that any efficient BFS is optimal in LP ( w 1 , … , w p ) for some w 1 , … , w p > 0 and so it corresponds to some efficient tableau ( Section 3.6 ) .
19 And so it comes to me , ’ he said quietly , as if to the painting .
20 In the morning , body temperature is being raised and so it tends to be slightly lower than required .
21 And so it tends to be worse in the early hours of the morning and you can have another blip in the sort of er middle to late afternoon as well .
22 It was , he said , a ‘ No Hope Budget ’ — and so it appeared to many Conservative voters .
23 But then it seemed to snowball from ‘ Hunky Dory ’ into ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ because after playing one or two gigs as an acoustic outfit , it seemed to be natural to take it that step further — to add the bass and add the drums and make it bigger and better — more of a show of it — and so it evolved into ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ .
24 And so it seems to me that what has got to be proven , and I come back to the point , is that something has changed and we have n't heard anything that has changed er in in that time .
25 and so it seems to me that the erm really from the county 's point of view , er to their advantage as it were , the employment land requirement stays the same .
26 And so it seems to me that erm we must look to you sir and Miss Whittaker to say what you feel as er independent erm hearkeners to the debate er we it 's time as I would say for erm North Yorkshire now to face up to what 's going on in its own territory and remove the planning obstacles to what is actually happening and just to make sure that it 's safely tied up with criteria to make sure it does n't erm erm unhappy consequences instead of the happy consequences that we are trying to achieve .
27 And so it did to Brother Cadfael , though for him it was equally a shock of enlightenment .
28 And perhaps it needs to be restricted to the housing and employment er needs arising from Greater York .
29 I think in any marriage or in any family the father and the mother both play different parts , and in my own life I can remember things my mother did and things my father did and together it made for a happy home .
30 The untouched paper was left to represent the dense central mass of twigs , and the more open lattice of branches above and below it silhouetted against a lighter background .
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