Example sentences of "and [prep] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A swift turn of the wrist , a resulting click as the receptacle was locked , a pull on the lever and off it went to the central cash desk that usually had two cashiers . |
| 2 | He gave the ball a very sweet hit and off it went . |
| 3 | Click on ‘ Automatic ’ and off it goes . |
| 4 | The single high-density distribution disk slips into the drive , you type INSTALL , answer the usual ‘ is this where you want it ’ questions , and off it goes . |
| 5 | This would enable Hongkong Bank to avoid paying a packet for goodwill and for it to remain a Hongkong bank while Midland remained British . |
| 6 | to quicken and for it to slow . |
| 7 | The hon. Member for Dagenham wants not only to recreate a GLC but , as my hon. Friend the Member for Harrow , West said , for it to be bigger and for it to control the police , which the old GLC never did . |
| 8 | It was open and through it came the sound of a cello . |
| 9 | The door , — like most of the building that originally stood around it ! — is mid-fifteenth-century and through it went members of the family whose name is now attached to it , even though the family palazzo was elsewhere . |
| 10 | He studied law before the war and during it worked with the resistance in Prague where he had been born . |
| 11 | This research proposal is designed to look at how this Inquiry fits into an evolutionary model of the development of the public inquiry as a democratic and political device for analysing information and ensuring that legal interests are safeguarded , what views the various participants have of the Inquiry before , during and after it occurs , and how the Inquiry as a process handles the arguments raised by its terms of reference , from the viewpoints of fairness , fullness , thoroughness and public legitimacy . |
| 12 | I had put on a show of contrition all day , and behind it had been incomprehension and fright . |
| 13 | Beyond the inn a church tower perched in the tree-tops and behind it crowded high green sheltering hills . |
| 14 | Between us and the stairs was the desk , and behind it sat a fiftyish thin man with a lined but peaceful face . |
| 15 | An enormous powder blue car , gleaming and new , its plentiful chromium winking in the sunlight , was drawn up in front of the house and against it leaned a man in a white suit . |
| 16 | It 's always in there , and er and I can remember walking around there and seeing the place where they make them , and her photograph 's outside and underneath it says , I am the lady I make them . |
| 17 | It seemed to me that the stench of Billingsley 's cigar smoke clung to the boat like the sulphurous reek of the pit , and with it lingered the realisation that I had been twisted into dishonesty as easily as a length of rope could be coiled into hanks . |
| 18 | The end of the War was at last in sight , and with it breaking of the electoral truce . |
| 19 | He had blurted it out , and with it had gone all his shyness ; he turned and looked into her face . |
| 20 | With the arrival of scientific methods in the twentieth century , we have been able to determine the essential nature of a healthy diet , and with it make dietary changes based on knowledge . |
| 21 | A second visionary experience was required to create the world of the archetypal stage , the skene , and with it make true drama possible . |
| 22 | When the distribution of revenue is seen to be equitable , one would expect to see this intransigence diminish and with it doubts about the commitment of the UK to the EC . |
| 23 | The composition of the crowd altered and with it went the surveillance and supervision of the young . |
| 24 | The party disintegrated and with it went one of the very few sensible perspectives on the Free City 's position . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , the Mediterranean world had found a common language , and with it went a literature which was uniquely open to all sorts of problems , debates and emotions . |
| 26 | She released her breath , and with it went the tension her body had been locked in . |
| 27 | They won a penalty just after half-time when Martin Ling was pulled down , but Craig Maskell threw the kick away and with it went Swindon 's chances . |
| 28 | Throughout the 1960's the Club continued to increase its membership and with it came the demand for better facilities backed up with plenty of suggestions ! |
| 29 | And so the year 1798 drew to a close , and with it came another crippling winter in a decade of crippling winters . |
| 30 | Brandy arrived and with it came Mary , carrying a wrap , aromatic salts and a fan , ready for any eventuality . |