Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [subord] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lifting our skirts higher and higher to avoid the water we carefully dropped them as it became shallow again . |
| 2 | A fist flew towards him on the screen , filled it as it made apparent impact and then vanished away . |
| 3 | She kept hold of his arm and shook it till it became elastic and extended out of its socket like a conjuror 's string of handkerchiefs . |
| 4 | She heard a car go up the road and then still heard it as it travelled some way along the road at the top , and realised the wind must be coming from the south for the sound to come to her so distinctly . |
| 5 | I only got it cos it looked nice . |
| 6 | ‘ She started dancing around and we did it because it felt right . ’ |
| 7 | Apparently this new method had been tried out down south and it seemed ideal for the temperamental Orkney climate because you harvested when it was green and then you put it in a pit and packed it with a tractor and then you left it until it turned black and rotted and then you cut it up in chunks and fed it to the cattle . |
| 8 | Men down the hole steadied it as it became horizontal and was heaved on to the shoulders of the men , about 150 in all . |