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Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1	Got involved and cooled it down a bit and er and found some of the people some premises , and I think got them some money from Duke of Edinburgh award scheme or something , to buy music music equipment .
2	They built it around a makeshift shrine , with offerings to the gods , both good and bad , and it took them all the following winter , this winter .
3	Belonged to an old lady who only used it once a week for shopping . ’ ’
4	He used it almost every day , often spending a whole afternoon on it .
5	Which is good , because Cliff Gallup used it quite a bit , too , and this month and next , we 're going to try his solos from Gene Vincent 's Race With The Devil .
6	But they went and found it just the same .
7	We found it altogether an extremely fascinating place to wander around , but not much revenue work for us apart from " showing the flag " .
8	He liked him very much , and felt the enchantment , and found it almost a spell .
9	As Signals explained , television ruined all this homespun entertainment but personally I found it quite a relief when we got a set and could all sit around watching King George 's funeral .
10	‘ I found it quite a transition to go from being a single bloke to being married .
11	I enjoyed Prime Minister because I found it much the most relaxed of the offices I held .
12	It was a room no-one ever came into , except the dead woman 's husband , who visited it religiously every Sunday morning before Mass , locking himself in for an hour , while , Ellie guessed , he dusted and tidied the shrine he had created , and prayed for the soul of the one departed .
13	Arrived at my chambers , I reviewed it over a pipe and the next day I wrote the first chapter .
14	When Mr. Mendez spoke to him you believed it all the more .
15	Geraldine checked no one was looking , took one daffodil and dropped it over a wall into a garden .
16	He stared , somewhat appalled , as she lifted the wig like a hat and dropped it over a cut-glass vase .
17	Clara , like the others , found that the sausage inspired her with a sense of violent disgust , but she ate it just the same .
18	She snatched up a square of tissue paper , deftly swung and twisted it round a fat brioche .
19	Learnt it off an R.A.F. prisoner on the run during the war .
20	I played it probably a million different ways during the days leading up to the recording and what 's on tape is some form of an improvisation on a somewhat generalised idea .
21	That sketch was written by Harold Pinter and he played it straight the way Pinter wrote it , with the nuances that Pinter intended , the pauses in the right place .
22	That stirred it up a b oh .
23	‘ I 've been involved in a few of these things but I 've never seen anyone bring it up to the level he did — he turned it up a few notches . ’
24	The marchioness loosened her mantle of grey cloth and threw it over a chair .
25	With a disconsolate sigh she stood up , slipped off the towelling robe and threw it over a chair .
26	And he goes to me , he goes to me so have you thought about my , my suggestion of pottery , I went yeah , and I threw it out the window .
27	The other factor against a return was that I reckoned it only a matter of time before they stopped being DINKS ( double income , no kids ) and became WHANnies ( ‘ We have a Nanny ’ ) .
28	Well I says Andy cut it down a bit like , even if you could cut , cut it down a bit for and I says he ca n't afford to give big housekeeping money and plus try and get a bus away to Kilkeel and take out , or take the wee girl out , what do you call her , Sonia .
29	And it hu go And it was there and it was left all night , and next day erm the man came back again and he cut it down the back with a big saw , and divided it up and then it was taken to the house where it was er up and then salted in a big barrel .
30	I cooked it over a fire or dried it in the sun .