Example sentences of "and [vb past] [subord] 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Elsie joined me on the river bank and asked if it was hot enough for me . |
| 5 | I cheekily went across to a detached cottage and asked if it was possible to get a bite to eat . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | I filed that away and asked if it was all right for the girls to stay until the doctors had done their rounds . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | and trembled as it fed — |
| 10 | I followed the telephone cord and found where it went into the wall . |
| 11 | Place warm mixture in mixer and beat until it is cold . |
| 12 | It remains true that , apart from the foral provinces , government became more effective , defined , and concentrated as it approached the subject . |
| 13 | This picture of a universe that started off very hot and cooled as it expanded is in agreement with all the observational evidence that we have today . |
| 14 | It is still maintained by the sophisticated falsificationist that theories can be falsified and rejected while it is denied that theories can ever be established as true or probably true . |
| 15 | Maybe we are like a photocopy of God that got a bit crumpled and smudged as it came out of the machine so that his image in us has got a bit spoilt , but that does not alter the fact that every person has something of God about them . |
| 16 | They have seen the smoke and guessed where it is . ’ |
| 17 | McDaid denied any links with the IRA and withdrew after it became clear that the junior partner in the government , the Progressive Democrats ( PDs ) , would not vote for a reshuffle including him . |
| 18 | Now I sat beside her and watched as the cloth was folded and refolded until it became a nubin . |
| 19 | There the microscopic ovum was revealed and followed as it started its monthly journey to await possible fertilisation . |
| 20 | The question is whether or not the document , prepared and signed as it was , satisfies the requirements of the substituted section 9 of the Wills Act 1837 . |
| 21 | It was travelling fast and wobbled as it hit the bumpy piece of road under the railway bridge . |
| 22 | Bernice shook loose the amiable scrap of nothing and watched as it fluttered away , lost in moments in the gentle glow of Moloch 's endless day . |
| 23 | At home I might have fed it to the fish , but here I felt sorry for it and watched until it was time to move on . |
| 24 | That technological effort should be genuinely sought by the business and focused where it will make a significant impact . |
| 25 | Then I went back to my panel-picture and worked until it was time to start the supper . |
| 26 | Notice that we have considered every figure given in the question and decided whether it is relevant or not and which category it falls into . |
| 27 | It is then skimmed and resoaked until it is clean . |
| 28 | Sometimes it thickened and pulsed with blood and felt like it was going to rip something . |
| 29 | Another avenue of enjoyable information-seeking — sadly , not as well-known and patronized as it deserves to be — is the programme of private gardens opened in aid of various charities like the Gardeners ' Benevolent Fund , from whom you can obtain a county-by-county week-by-week guide giving details of location , times of opening and points of interest . |
| 30 | Richard Montague-Smith , who was 15 , took his brother 's Escort car without consent and died when it left the road at more than 70 miles an hour on the Birdlip bypass near Gloucester earlier this year . |