Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] it [vb past] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had a friend who used to say that if you burned a candle in your window and it burned all night , then the world would n't end while you were sleeping . ’ |
| 2 | When it first went off some time ago it would n't go but one day I took I took a jelly out in a glass dish and it bonked this thing and the light came on again . |
| 3 | It meant we had to chase the game and it left more room for their two dangerous strikers . |
| 4 | In any event the civil war was the ultimate sort of turning point which defined that the national government er had a responsibility for ensuring the permanence of the union and it took that responsibility so seriously it was prepared to engage in what was then the bloodiest war in human history . |
| 5 | She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say . |
| 6 | In many ways the movement was a distant bogey but it worried many landowners whose rent rolls were hit by the heavy load of poor rates , now a quarterly impost almost everywhere . |