Example sentences of "and [indef pn] [prep] it [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Since she was sixteen she had experienced life , and none of it had been good , except that she had given birth to a daughter and also that she had found out what love was , but had experienced the painful futility of it . |
2 | ‘ And none of it gave you the right to lie to me . |
3 | Throughout its short history , the world of movies has started movements , set trends , created myths , subverted truths , woven imagery and given birth to icons — and none of it has done much good for women . |
4 | The working-class wives of early eighteenth-century London earned from charring , laundry , nursing , making and mending clothes , hawking , silk-winding and in the catering and victualling services : The great majority of women were unable to work in male trades and , since nearly three quarters of women wanted to or had to work for a living , they necessarily competed intensely for the work which was left , much of it of a casual nature and none of it organised by gilds and livery companies . |
5 | I went over to Sheridan to ask him to be quiet and he grabbed my wrist and tried to pull me on to his lap , and I overbalanced and fell and hit the table hard where he was sitting , and I caught the cloth somehow and pulled it with me and everything on it landed on the floor . |
6 | and they have all these like really good ideas Head Office and area office and everything like it counts for very little unless you 've got the support of the |
7 | The craft and everything in it had accelerated . |
8 | The world and everything in it shows signs of order and pattern , but such signs are inexplicable without the mind of a Planner . |
9 | It seems that there are well-defined laws that govern how the universe and everything in it develops in time . |
10 | The person who is out in the front teaching the class , or directing the piece of work they 're doing , they do , and everybody in it does … the kind of work we do is to do with a group of people … getting into a drama studio , and you know the set-up here ; there 's no uniform , there 's no ‘ Sir ’ or ‘ Miss ’ , it 's all Christian names , and that means that the holds are broken down a lot , so what is done in the end is to produce work which we hope makes statements which come from the pre-occupations , the beliefs , the honestly held beliefs of the people involved , whether they 're working from a text , an interpretation of a text , or whether they 're working from improvisation , doing their own work … so they get constant assessment from that . |