Example sentences of "it [vb past] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd like to say that I remember something about the rest of that walk but I do n't , only that it rained , then it rained some more , and when it got fed up with that , it rained again .
2 He tells her , too , about the toy drawer in which the pencil-case was originally lost , and the characteristic choking dusty smell it would develop as the toys in it became mixed up with each other to form a kind of solid pudding , which had to be taken out at the end of each school holidays , and separated once again into its components .
3 It was here that the Caroline reformers achieved nothing because the crown could not recapture the powers it had made over to local municipal oligarchs .
4 He took his pulse again to calm himself ( it had gone up to sixty-five ) and then began to concentrate hard on gathering up the bits of himself .
5 It had gone up in that time .
6 Det Insp Jeff Crowther said : ‘ This incident could have been worse if it had gone on for any length of time . ’
7 It had gone on for some time , she could n't say how long .
8 Well I did n't have the heating on after it had gone off at nine o'clock you know .
9 Virtually all the members of the South Wales Area of the NUM had obeyed the strike call when it had gone out in 1984 .
10 The Georgian parliament , under its new leadership , unanimously adopted a resolution calling for the full restoration of republican sovereignty as it had existed up to 1921 .
11 It had a cast of virtual unknowns and failed to score highly in the ratings , with average viewing figures of only five million — although it had picked up in recent weeks with about seven million .
12 For nearly six months it had housed up to 100 people protesting against injustices ranging from human rights abuse , emigration restrictions and mistreatment by bureaucrats to unemployment , homelessness and low pensions .
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