Example sentences of "and it [adv] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Aldershot method was particularly important for me because I realised that it 's something we use every day or we see every day er and it emotionally prepares the audience the listener for what I 'm going to say . |
| 2 | I told him drinking rum would kill him , and it nearly has . ’ |
| 3 | The first term is always an unsettling time , and it generally takes a few weeks before students become familiar with each other , and work together effectively . |
| 4 | About half the throws hit their target and it generally takes eight direct hits and about five minutes to crack the egg open . |
| 5 | As such it needs to make use of concepts which define the political sphere , the nature of political relations and institutions , the state , government , law , etc. ; and it generally has as its point of departure a broader scheme of thought about human nature and society . |
| 6 | And if you 're with National Westminster , you telephone a , a n a number in Manchester or Birmingham or two or three other places I guess but as far as we 're concerned er the Birmingham Manchester one 's the cheapest you , you ring them up and you give them A your identification number and it immediately tells you what your balance is . |
| 7 | generated or whatever , who do you wish to pay to , and we have four erm electricity board , the gas board , the er er er credit card and the , ca n't remember what the fourth one is , you simply say I wan na pay number four how much do you wish to pay to the Royal Bank of Scotland and you say how much you wish to pay in , er in pence and it immediately says you wish to pay blah blah blah it will be done . |
| 8 | The engine is started by the time-honoured ‘ Armstrong ’ method — Aeroncas are definitely not a sophisticated aeroplane — and it immediately settles into a rhythmless beat on tickover . |
| 9 | and it immediately dies down and then it 's okay , but there was this tremendous roar and a loud click and it went out . |
| 10 | However , practice differs and it invariably happens that express provision is made only regarding two areas : non-competition/canvassing and non-disclosure/use of business secrets . |
| 11 | C. P. Snow 's The Masters ( 1951 ) is a precursor rather than an instance : it tells a story of an election within a Cambridge college , a bitter tale of disappointed hopes ; but it hardly questions the intellectual claims of academia , and it ultimately belongs , like other Snow novels , to a world of administrative ambitions where a university is seen as an out-of-town version of Whitehall . |
| 12 | In consequence , many Members who put their names down will have only ill-formed ideas about what they want and it frequently happens that Bills presented are ill-prepared or misconceived . |
| 13 | In addition , recruitment is a major activity in any personnel department and it frequently gives rise to administration problems of an essentially mundane nature which are , nevertheless , a major irritant as far as the personnel manager is concerned . |
| 14 | It took mum two hours to get to Debenham and it normally takes half an hour . |
| 15 | A plasmid is even smaller than a virus , and it normally consists of only a few genes . |
| 16 | And it normally has stickers all over it saying |
| 17 | It seems its very high speeds are only achieved occasionally , when pursuing food or escaping , and it normally cruises at about a third or a half of its rapid dashes . |
| 18 | and it completely blacks over it was dark |
| 19 | Now when the buses pull up there , they 've got to double park and it completely blocks the road , I mean you 've either got to swing right round the bus on the wrong side of the road and you know you could easily run into something coming the other way . |
| 20 | However , the SFO 's handling of its investigations has hardly been consistent and it already has set a precedent for the Barrowclough report to be published in full . |
| 21 | It reigned almost without limit in primitive times when property was still very scanty , and it already shows itself in the nursery almost before property has given up its primal , anal form … . |
| 22 | This is called plussing and it slightly alters the potency of the remedy in the glass which helps to maintain its effectiveness . |
| 23 | Well it might be that this turns out to be an extremely successful gamble , and Branson has expanded Virgin into a world recovery , or it may be that this airline runs into more serious financial difficulties in the middle of the decade , and it either contracts or it sells out to either an American or a continental European carrier . |
| 24 | Oh there was a tremendous variety , but then there were all the same in , erm you look at the er the three light fitting er it hangs down from the ceiling and has three branches out from it and it either has three lights hanging down or three hanging upwards , er with four ordinary bulbs in or candle bulbs in and shades , sometimes they have four , erm , there 's still an awful lot of those about and any lighting shop you look in you 'll still see plenty of those er and yet they 've got a tremendous number of disadvantages , one thing , a lot of them got glass shades , if you break one shade three year 's time you might as well throw away the fitting because you ca n't get another one er , and erm it 's a design that does n't , it does n't lend itself to giving a good lighting in a room at all er , it they , they harsh glassware , the edges of the glass during all round the room and that sort of thing |
| 25 | Belongs to everybody , and it particularly belongs to everybody in Nottinghamshire . |
| 26 | This development certainly would , and it again raises doubts about the validity of the Government 's commitment to a voluntary principle in the conservation of our natural heritage . |
| 27 | It is no longer face to face with him but is integrated with him and it progressively absorbs him . |
| 28 | The music of Taizé has grown out of a particular context , culture and spirituality and it effectively serves the need of the ecumenical community for which it is composed . |
| 29 | Labour has a long list of priorities : a £3 billion pledge on pensions — presumably health comes after that ; health presumably comes after Labour 's £1 billion recovery programme and it presumably comes after Labour 's £8 billion housing pledge . |
| 30 | That is science fiction , and it probably sounds far-fetched . |