Example sentences of "[coord] it [verb] [adj] [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.

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1 A lot of my work includes routing grooves for 5/8in and 3/4in boards , and it takes some time achieving the right width of groove even with the appropriate cutter .
2 He also admits to having a streak of the trainspotter in him , and it took three days ploughing through his extensive record collection before he finally managed to produce a top ten .
3 The combination of bishopric and monastery was one of the main results of the tenth-century monastic revival , and it had tenuous threads going back to the seventh century .
4 And it had other things going for it too .
5 But it had one thing missing — a proper paper .
6 According to Electronic News it has no OEM customers as yet , but it has two deals cooking .
7 ‘ It is a serious offence , but it means first-time offenders committing that crime could find themselves in prison . ’
8 This on the surface may not seem to be hostile to religion , but it causes severe re-interpretation encouraging many people to regard religion as little more than a culturally derived dressing-up game .
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