Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The process was patented by Squire in 1875 , and Squire and Messel described and demonstrated it before the Chemical Society the following April .
2 So remorseful was Shiva that he took the head of the first creature he encountered and placed it on the boy 's shoulders .
3 You felt , tasted and swallowed it in an effort to breathe .
4 He realized that accepting it as an office would have meant being pressed into staying late at night talking shop .
5 He both expected and accepted it as a matter of course .
6 She dressed in black trousers and a white blouse with long full sleeves , brushed her hair till it shone and twisted it into a tight knot on top of her head , thinking with satisfaction that Roman would n't like it but she was n't about to let him dictate how she wore her hair , or dressed .
7 So I think the , the whole idea of the , the seminar was to kind of basically get ourselves organized but have it in a kind of er seminar format .
8 The strange boy grinned and wiped it on the seat of his shorts .
9 She pulled and patted it into a comfortable pad and Midnight slumped down , leaning forward against his crooked legs , his hands draped over his knees .
10 One day Tod took from the trash a framed certificate and went and hung it on the toilet doornail .
11 Watford were the better team in the second half they pulled level with a header from Julian Alsford and went and won it in the very last minute with a great strike from Gary Porter …
12 Watford were the better team in the second half they pulled level with a header from Julian Alsford and went and won it in the very last minute with a great strike from Gary Porter …
13 But he , he give him three thousand in readies and he went and wrapped it round a blooming tree on top of the Molton Road !
14 A horse called Metronome and a rider called Pippa Nolan set the pace over the cross country course at Blenheim on Saturday … second after the dressage they pushed into the lead … a re-run of last year when Pippa went and lost it on the showjumping … this year the field was even tougher
15 Also a photo of all the officers of Walsall that I saw in a second hand shop and I went and bought it for a few pence .
16 Ember seized and aimed it at the control panel beside the door and the room went as dark as it could with the little amber safety-lights glimmering in case of accident .
17 ‘ I use this for sticking pigs , ’ he said , giving me a mysterious smile , gesturing with the ugly blade across his uncovered throat , then laughing , flicking it shut and thrusting it into a long pocket in the side of his dusty black corduroys .
18 When you type in a document , saving it from time to time , Word does not destroy the very last version that you saved but renames it as a back-up copy .
19 ‘ One man wrote or told it in a book ( the Bible ) , another in a picture . ’
20 The Plant committee was expected to report to the Labour Party conference in the autumn , but Mr Kinnock denied that turning it into an official government commission was a delaying tactic .
21 He took a cheap cigarette out of his jacket pocket , paused and lit it with a match in his cupped hand .
22 ‘ It was hers , ’ he said and hurled it into the pool .
23 Finally he stood and placed it at the head of the mound .
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