Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [v-ing] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For me that meant wrapping it in a blue launderette bag which served as a case . |
| 2 | He rebuilt the library and began stocking it with the central texts of secular and religious learning which he had made available at Bec . |
| 3 | Ignoring her repeated instruction for him to get out , he unrolled the scroll and began spreading it over the desk , using the paperweight and penholder to secure its curling corners . |
| 4 | The gang manhandled the 18-foot caravan through the gap in the fence and began pushing it across the field towards the road . |
| 5 | Collecting the trowel , she bent down and began stabbing it into the bigger clumps of earth to break them up . |
| 6 | Fortunately , the corner hedge of an adjacent field was in a direct line with the site , so I moved forward a few paces , switched on my metal detector and started swinging it in an arc before me . |
| 7 | Almost operating on remote control he removed it , looked at it , and remembered finding it on the mat in that other house in that other life-time . |