Example sentences of "it and it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a flurry of yelps and scurryings but nobody managed to field it and it rolled almost up to Maxim 's feet . |
| 2 | These often allow reordering the sequence of elements in a clause without a significant change of meaning ( cf. I like it and It pleases me ) . |
| 3 | Expressions such as I like it and It pleases me are ‘ equivalent ’ only in theory . |
| 4 | ‘ The creative use of leisure ’ sociologists called it and it worried them badly that fret-work and bird-watching might be all there was to fulfil people after pressing the buttons at the fully-automatic , atom-powered , closed-circuit-TV-monitored , computer-directed plant for a couple of four-hour shifts a week . |
| 5 | Although the western consensus based on the traditional liberal interpretation has now broken down , many of the most distinguished scholars in the field remain firmly committed to it and it continues to inform conventional wisdom among non-specialists in the West . |
| 6 | There 's a few knots in it and it hurts a bit when she tugs the comb , but I do n't say nothing . |
| 7 | It moves me playing it and it upsets me playing it , it 's very upsetting to play Alfie , because A he 's such a disastrous man as a person d you know you think oh god I do n't really wan na be playing this man for sixteen weeks but the part is so wonderful and the play is so rich that you ca n't help s sort of s submitting to it and putting yourself in the position of being a masochist I suppose . |
| 8 | The house was in bad shape when they bought it and it took six months to finish . |
| 9 | And erm they 'd moved the kit , got the electricians to do it and it took , it took three fuses when they did it , I mean the extensions fused on that particular system , the data pairs fused |
| 10 | I like the , there was , there was a , er big bill board in town , I du n no if you saw it and it says , I think it had Labour right , in really big letters , and they said who 's really behind me , it was a Conservative one , they said who 's really behind them and in it every one there 's like a T U C leader one of the union leaders |
| 11 | Something like that , trying to remember now what it was , sixteen hundred , sixteen hundred that was it and it says your credit limit is sixteen , sixteen , you could spend up to sixteen hundred pounds , whether you got it or not you can spend it , so we said if we 're gon na get this computer because you get these Air Miles out of it , you know , every ten pounds you get an Air Mile , well if he 's getting a computer over a thousand pounds you know with all the paraphernalia that goes with it , well that 's a lot of Air Miles there , well we said we 'll get it through Access , but there is n't , our credit limit on Access is n't enough to pay for the computer , sixteen hundred it 's more than sixteen hundred , in , in the long , once he 's got his printer and God knows what you know , so I phoned them up and he said erm is it possible to adjust the limit upwards ? |
| 12 | The second stone had more force behind it , but Rose took a half step back as she threw it and it went wide . |
| 13 | He blasted it and it went in a straight line from his foot to the top right hand corner . |
| 14 | But they decided against it and it went again in October . |
| 15 | I saw it actually when I was just doing it and it went how loud it was . |
| 16 | With trepidation I took a stronger hold of it and it came away altogether but with a sharp dagger of soreness , like digging out a splinter . |
| 17 | I stood and looked at it and it came and rubbed itself against my leg . |
| 18 | It becomes increasingly ill at ease until eventually the din and the intrusions become too much for it and it flaps off to find a quieter spot somewhere else . |
| 19 | It went out , the press got behind it and it began turning into something . |
| 20 | Erm I know it 's easier said than done sometimes but er it has to be your decision because even if you went ahead and were confirmed , we were tal talking about the idea of sometimes parents bring pressure on them on you to go ahead and do it and be confirmed , erm when perhaps you 're not do n't feel ready for it and it takes a lot of courage to stand up and say No I 'm not ready . |
| 21 | Alton Towers clearly is an exception but again , you have to pay a lot of money for it and it takes quite some time to get the return er , back and , and I would say that erm , many of Michael 's erm , er , organic erm , er , expenditure will , will erm , provide er , a really good return rather quicker but in the long run we think Alton is good . |
| 22 | At the end of the lawn there was a sundial ; they looked at it and it had got the time right . |
| 23 | That was the Catholic name for it and it had always seemed very appropriate to Preston , conjuring up visions of an unctuous priest dripping oil and glib assurance . |
| 24 | He had rather enjoyed it and it had helped him to keep his mind off what might be happening to Snodgrass and to Floy and Fenella . |
| 25 | For instance , Piers 's unforthcoming remark about avoiding love because he had once tasted it and it had left a bitter after-effect . |
| 26 | She 'd even been on the local TV news for it and it had done wonders for business . |
| 27 | ‘ Too often chief executives fail to recognise that they have embarked on a major project until they are well into it and it had run into difficulties . ’ |
| 28 | Have been too close to it and it had , and the vents at the back had got churned up with dust at one time , I keep dusting it now . |
| 29 | and then getting all the the chassis numbers and that and welding them on to these stolen cars and Because what , you know , er Siobhan 's dad had a , bought a Montego and I do n't know how it came about but they discovered that erm it had a diff I mean it 's had a Maestro engine in it and it had this that and the other . |
| 30 | And we went to the one next to it and it had all naked women in it . |