Example sentences of "and [vb past] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as in uffish thought he stood , The Jabberwock , with eyes of flame , Came whiffling through the tulgey wood , And burbled as it came ! |
| 2 | The Governors considered the job description too vague and asked that it be made precise . |
| 3 | Its former owner , the late Audrey Barrie-Brown left it to the Roman Research Trust and asked that it be turned into an educational centre . |
| 4 | USL , reportedly working along similar lines ( UX No 383 ) , has declined to comment officially , and asked whether it was developing its own solution or buying the technology in from elsewhere , director of low-end Unix systems , Bill Traber , said ‘ I ca n't answer that . ’ |
| 5 | As a friend of Linde 's , I was rather embarrassed , however , when I was later sent his paper by a scientific journal and asked whether it was suitable for publication . |
| 6 | Elsie joined me on the river bank and asked if it was hot enough for me . |
| 7 | I cheekily went across to a detached cottage and asked if it was possible to get a bite to eat . |
| 8 | Eventually , thunder rumbled in the distance , and he looked up and asked if it was gun-fire ; when I said I thought not , he moved to the door saying , ‘ If Mr Colin recommends them , I 'll take all three ’ . |
| 9 | I filed that away and asked if it was all right for the girls to stay until the doctors had done their rounds . |
| 10 | It had ‘ failed to make my flesh creep ’ , he reports guardedly , in a phrase he was to repeat years later about it in his life of Ronald Knox ( 1959 ) , and failed because it had denied the existence of the soul and omitted all mention of the Church . |
| 11 | Suffering fever , blindness and paralysis , they reached Lake Tanganyika in 1857 but it was Speke who eventually found Lake Victoria and realized that it was the reservoir which fed the great river . |
| 12 | As the struggle progressed he came to see the inadequacies of the term and realized that it was too constricted in its meaning and gave rise to confusion and misunderstanding . |
| 13 | But she caught sight of her watch and realized that it would be half-past three in the morning in New York . |
| 14 | So it was a breakthrough and I noticed this change in sixty eight and realized that it would be possible to do small-scale removals . |
| 15 | I saw no point in lying to an already acerbic-looking policeman , and agreed that it was . |
| 16 | The women put their heads together and agreed that it would be no bad thing if Loverin laid on hard with his strap . |
| 17 | Edinburgh District Council have been consulted and officials from their Planning Department have looked at the route and agreed that it has good potential . |
| 18 | Edinburgh District Council have been consulted and officials from their Planning Department have looked at the route and agreed that it has good potential . |
| 19 | Corbett stared at the hard-eyed French envoy and realised that it was impossible to press the matter . |
| 20 | He discovered that Bob was twenty-five , four years his junior , and realised that it was the first time since his brother Joe 's marriage , when they were seventeen and twenty , that he had had a companion of roughly his own age . |
| 21 | The taxi ride from the airport to the little village where she was staying , only six kilometres from Nice , had been uncomfortable because the air-conditioning in the car had broken down three days before her arrival and was waiting to be repaired , and all in all her last vestiges of good humour had finally bitten the dust as she 'd stood in front of the house and realised that it had n't finished being built . |
| 22 | Summoned to collect a donation from an address on the east side of the city , a few days before the Election , I noticed a poster in the window , and realised that it was the home of a candidate ( now the Member ) for Leith . |
| 23 | It has attempted to climb above the condom in the fresher 's priorities list and announced that it is considering giving students a significant voice in the pay rises of their lecturers . |
| 24 | However , the government has now bowed to pressure and announced that it would act as ‘ insurer of last resort ’ for terrorist bomb damage on the British mainland . |
| 25 | One five-year-old , for instance , when asked to make one pile so it was tiv , picked up one coin from it , placed it between the two piles , and announced that it was tiv . |
| 26 | The Council also voted unanimously to request the UK government to declare a continental shelf around the Islands , and announced that it hoped to pass legislation " before Christmas " enabling it to sell exploration licences for oil and other minerals . |
| 27 | After the collapse of Farrow as well as of two major banks in Victoria , the state 's Labor government arranged a line of credit to support other building societies with short-term liquidity problems and announced that it would reform the state 's banking laws to improve protection for depositors . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , the World Health Organization ( WHO ) called for US$3,000,000 to purchase medical supplies [ see also p. 38218 ] , while UNICEF advanced US$1,000,000 from its Emergency Relief Fund and announced that it was seeking a further US$5,000,000 to restore village water systems . |
| 29 | The Iraqi government offered to co-operate in return for the lifting of economic sanctions and announced that it would send a mission to New York to discuss this with the UN Security Council on March 10 . |
| 30 | The Japanese government , along with the Japanese business sector , gave NAFTA a cool response and announced that it would ask the GATT secretariat to examine the treaty to ensure that it was in accord with multilateral trade rules . |