Example sentences of "[vb past] it [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 2 | If Iskandara said anything of the matter to James , he let it go no further . |
| 3 | Then she let it drop again . |
| 4 | Her hand reached up to smooth her already immaculate hair before she let it drop abruptly when she saw the amusement on his face . |
| 5 | I had a friend who had long hair and she , she let it grow right the way through . |
| 6 | If he let it loose here , his chance of becoming chief would vanish . |
| 7 | Sometimes she piled it up , sometimes she pulled it forward in a fringe , and sometimes she let it hang straight , like her mother 's . |
| 8 | It was a fantastic round , but really , you know , he let it get away from him . |
| 9 | As Tallis approached it whinnied loudly , then stamped and backed into the trees . |
| 10 | Then take the matter of the car jack which , according to Bourke , he smuggled in to Blake who used it to prise away the window bars in order to make his escape from D block . |
| 11 | After owning the Messenger for about five years , during which the Walton family used it to tour all over Europe , Lindsey felt the time was right for a change . |
| 12 | Yeah they they used it to get away . |
| 13 | Whoever used it did so rarely and left few traces . |
| 14 | Last year an East India company in the tea trade had gone bankrupt , and the court found it had actually been insolvent for a quarter of a century — which had come as a great surprise even to the directors . |
| 15 | I.M. Pei , who immediately approved the idea of glass roofing , found it posed particularly difficult technical problems relating to drainage and air conditioning . |
| 16 | It was , in fact , the work of his son , William , and Miller comments ‘ I was first favoured by this sort by Mr. Peter Collinson , FRS and afterwards received a plant with a drawing of it made in the country where it grows , by Mr. John Bartram , JR , and have since been furnished with more plants by Dr. Benzel of Germantown in Philadelphia , who found it growing plentifully in shady , moist places . ’ |
| 17 | It 's a memory-hungry process and I found it worked best on machines with more than 4Mb of RAM . |
| 18 | I made one many years ago and found it worked very well . |
| 19 | The committee 's proposed remedies for the defects of the law as they found it appear clearly from the foregoing paragraphs . |
| 20 | Customs Officers eh ! " and slammed it shut again . |
| 21 | Ace opened the door just wide enough for the pair to enter , and slammed it shut just as a brick arced over from the darkened bushes . |
| 22 | She slammed it shut once more . |
| 23 | On the eve of the anniversaries , Jiang Zemin told it to work harder to play its role of ‘ pillar of the proletarian dictatorship … |
| 24 | ‘ He kicked and punched her , knocking her to the ground , shouting abuse at her , ’ said Mr Wynn , ‘ He gave her a very hard blow to the nose which caused it to bleed profusely . |
| 25 | Freed from its hampering proximity to the dome , which caused it to hang limply ( and virtually unseen ) the flag is now caught by the breeze . |
| 26 | property thus recoverable developed a set of legal characteristics which caused it to differ considerably from property which was recoverable only by a personal action ; and so , though the real actions have long been abolished , and for a still longer time disused , the differences between real and personal property survived . |
| 27 | The journey was taken at a leisurely pace because of the trailer , yet , despite her dejection , Matt 's reminiscences caused it to pass rapidly . |
| 28 | As the excluded social forces grew in political strength , so they pressed in on the established constitution in ways which eventually caused it to buckle so that it came to be more in line with their views as to how things should be . |
| 29 | This place must have stood here like this for all those years , and I imagined it retaining always this season , a pocket of perpetual spring — almost a source of spring from which the frozen bare earth in other places could be revivified , as those old maps depict in each corner a Wind holding in his bursting cheeks the force of the wind everywhere . |
| 30 | Animals rarely surprise me but there was something about the buck , once I noticed it sitting there , that froze me for a second . |