Example sentences of "and it [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patrick Standun 's book ‘ Lovers ’ has on its cover a priest and a semi-naked woman in bed and it opens with a character using a sock for purposes he claims he learned from ‘ The Dark ’ . |
| 2 | Ye ken , ye walk up tae a door and it opens of its ain accord . |
| 3 | Do n't forget last Christmas when you forgot your mother 's and we had to come dashing back for it , and it snowing like blazes . |
| 4 | For the life of her she could n't say the expected thing and it hurt with surprising depth that this man had known her father when she herself had not known him at all . |
| 5 | ‘ Crilly , ’ I say as we lie together , ‘ when the nurse gave me the anaesthetic , she jabbed me so deep that I could feel it throbbing in my veins like an explosion , and it hurt like anything . |
| 6 | This was the brainchild of Francesco de Carerra , a senior legislator in Padua , and it amounted to a padlock that closed the vaginal labia tight by the simple expedient of passing right through them — or as it was more decorously phrased at the time ‘ locked up the seat of voluptuousness ’ . |
| 7 | The story of the railways is intimately tied up with the wider saga of the industrialization of Europe , and it proceeded at a different rate in each country . |
| 8 | But er apparently , er this train whilst it was halted , it was halted locally , but after a while it er it er it did get away , and it proceeded towards er towards er Sheffield . |
| 9 | He sent this prophecy to the MP John Lisle [ q.v. ] , and it circulated in the army . |
| 10 | This is a public right of way for walkers and it continues as a track alongside Loch Coulin , where camera enthusiasts are often fortunate to find a moored rowing boat posing for the foreground of a perfect picture . |
| 11 | ‘ Business was brisk in the last quarter of 1992 and it continues to be encouraging as we settle into 1993 . ’ |
| 12 | Given its origins , the NUR saw itself as an industrial union ; originally it organized most groups of BR workers , and it continues to be recognized by BR as representing all grades of staff other than management . |
| 13 | This tradition goes back at least to Herder and Lessing in the eighteenth century ; and it continues beyond Nietzsche to Johannes Volkelt and Bertolt Brecht in our own time . |
| 14 | At the present time , it has become attenuated but not extinct , and it continues in the long review-articles in the new York Review of Books and London Review of Books , and a few other periodicals . |
| 15 | This was clearly the assumption of the [ eighteenth century ] essayists , and it continues in our use of language for science and philosophy . |
| 16 | Only wych elm grew in the wood and it burned for me quite well when dry . |
| 17 | The Renault five turbo going down the road and had a crash and it split in two did n't it ? |
| 18 | The question of democracy is a very difficult one and it operates on different levels . |
| 19 | Fore and aft trimming is effected by means of a small trim lever on the central console and it operates by changing tension on springs attached to the elevator push-rods . |
| 20 | This is a budget Chairman that builds on the achievements of the last four years , the care for our schools and it takes into account that the future will not be as rosy as we would like and allows for contingencies . |
| 21 | The range of emotions is wide and it takes in all , from the simplest emotion to the peak experience and the emotions of creativity . |
| 22 | but if you keep it still because there 's nothing happened there your eye disregards that and it takes in things that are moving . |
| 23 | It is given over to writing between 2,000 and 2,500 words and it takes from three to four and a half hours to do . |
| 24 | And it feels as if there 's grit all in it now . |
| 25 | This is the showstopper : only 9.1 alcohol but a massive 287g of residual sugar , and it feels like it — incredible colour with an amazingly pungent nose-tickling scent , with hints of candied citrus fruit and butter . |
| 26 | As a result , its face appears to be covered in suede or velvet and it feels like soft moss to the touch . |
| 27 | It 's a terrible thing to be told that and then to do what the director says and it feels like shit . |
| 28 | The cushioning provided by the Trinonic units in the EVA midsole did the job well and it feels like a very stable shoe . |
| 29 | I do n't know how Dawn really feels about me , whether love or trust mean anything to her or not , but I do know that there is something special between us , and it feels like something more than just conditioning . |
| 30 | It 's HVS in summer and it feels like it in winter , too , as I shiver upwards to join Steve at the stance : a misnomer if ever there was one — just room enough for four front points on an edge . |