Example sentences of "and it [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried it once and it nearly killed me . |
| 2 | Bishops then turned up the pressure in a search for an equaliser , and it nearly came on seventy minutes as yet another debut man , Tommy Callanan blasted the ball against the underside of the ball from literally yards out when it was easier to score . |
| 3 | And it nearly worked . |
| 4 | We were going to have an 80-foot Brussels sprout flying above Battersea Power Station — and it nearly happened ! |
| 5 | ‘ The fight I 'd love would be against McMillan and it nearly happened before he lost his WBO title . |
| 6 | ‘ The English press wrote this stuff about us and it nearly broke up his marriage , ’ he said . |
| 7 | In post-war years , the Balloons remained in the war-time green livery long after the single-deckers , and it generally assumed that the 25 Coronations of 1953 were intended to replace them . |
| 8 | It is quite impossible to say that Woolwich paid to close a transaction since it protested that it was not liable and it immediately sought to establish that the regulations were void . |
| 9 | It all went down and it immediately flooded her with warmth . |
| 10 | ‘ He talked about his work and it immediately struck me that , as a professional doctor , he had an almost unhealthy interest in the more sordid side of sex , ’ she says . |
| 11 | The result , published in 1952 , was a book called Last Seen Wearing , and it definitively established the police procedural in America . |
| 12 | It seemed to come from nowhere , it transformed him utterly and it invariably caused her anger against him to feel quite suddenly totally inappropriate . |
| 13 | This company 's activities changed and it ultimately grew too big for a sole practitioner to handle on a part-time basis . |
| 14 | I tried to load it into erm Word and it completely screwed up . |
| 15 | When I became chairman of Hepworths , it had its own clothing plant and it either produced too much or not enough of the right quality at the right price at the right time . |
| 16 | In Wyatt v Kreglinger and Fernau [ 1933 ] 1 KB 793 the restraint was contained in a letter dealing with the plaintiff 's retirement rather than in his contract of employment and it effectively said that the defendants would pay him a pension if he refrained from working in the wool trade . |
| 17 | It said nothing about educational or cultural co-operation , it did not do anything to bring EMU nearer ( that was left to the Delors Plan ) and it effectively left foreign policy co-operation in government hands . |
| 18 | Victoria just stated a simple fact , and it effectively ended the conversation . |
| 19 | Other countries soon welcomed the breed , including several in South America and southern Africa , and it later became the first foreign breed to be imported by Japan . |
| 20 | ( c ) Branscombe A village in two parts ; in the 9th century it was owned by King Alfred and it later belonged to the Benedictine Abbey in Exeter . |
| 21 | He would , I think , have found Mrs Lavender 's attitude to him something of a challenge and it probably amused him to manipulate Mrs Kettle into defying her and then to observe her reactions . |
| 22 | It was a clever wheeze , great fun to work , and it probably succeeded in neutralizing the German espionage threat . |
| 23 | Its administrative importance is certainly attested for the sixth century , and it probably continued , although evidence is almost non-existent for the later period . |
| 24 | The treatment of mental illness was advancing considerably at that time , and it probably contributed more than the legislative change to reducing both the use of compulsory procedures and the incidence of long stays in hospital . |
| 25 | Another exception to the proposed pattern , is the 34 acre town at Caister-by-Yarmouth ; this is the only town apart from Brough-on-Humber , which occupied an exposed position on the east coast , vulnerable to sea-raiders and it probably required this protection , but it must also have had a special relationship with the nearby Saxon Shore fort at Burgh Castle . |
| 26 | Buzz did n't know what was going on , but she certainly smelled dishonesty : it probably involved fraud , and it probably involved Adam . |
| 27 | To be greeted by complete strangers with instant derision was a sobering experience , and it vividly reminded me of what it must have been like for those first black people , in the eighteenth century , walking the streets of England freely . |
| 28 | The little man roared with laughter and it evidently pleased him for he went about afterwards telling the Cabinet that ’ he had been caught telling the truth ’ . ’ |
| 29 | In 1940 , British ‘ black ’ propagandists merrily spread stories of burned German bodies to undermine the morale of the Wehrmacht — and it evidently worked . |
| 30 | As a result landowners only ‘ owned ’ the existing use rights of their land and it thus followed , first , that if permission to develop was refused no compensation was payable , and , secondly , that the price paid to public authorities for the compulsory acquisition of land would be equal to the existing use value , that is , its value excluding any allowance for future development . |