Example sentences of "[vb past] [coord] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who owned or used it ? |
| 2 | If she asked or noticed it , he would blame it on the college refusal . |
| 3 | They entered and sprayed it out with water . |
| 4 | Thirdly , the stated objectives of such a project are not necessarily a true representation of the motives of those who designed and implemented it . |
| 5 | I designed and built it myself . ’ |
| 6 | He designed and built it specially for his wife because she 'd always wanted to live by the river , but she only had time to enjoy it for a few months before she died . |
| 7 | The process was patented by Squire in 1875 , and Squire and Messel described and demonstrated it before the Chemical Society the following April . |
| 8 | So remorseful was Shiva that he took the head of the first creature he encountered and placed it on the boy 's shoulders . |
| 9 | She winced and pushed it away from her . |
| 10 | He deliberated for a long time in front of the pad , and then suddenly rose and put it away without writing anything . |
| 11 | Miss Giles said she booked the film to fill a mid-afternoon slot after a man calling himself Jean-Marc Brennez phoned and offered it . |
| 12 | Graham then back-tracked and said it was China , rather than Russia , which worried him . |
| 13 | She bent and stroked it . |
| 14 | White continues , ‘ As I never possessed the sense of smelling , and was willing to ascertain the flavour of the liquor , I tasted and found it to be aromatic , tho ’ not very pungent , partaking of the taste of catchup and of the pickle of Spanish olives . ’ |
| 15 | You felt , tasted and swallowed it in an effort to breathe . |
| 16 | She knelt and prised it from its bed . |
| 17 | We 're following up much of the documentation that we found and hope it could lead to other things which I can not reveal . |
| 18 | We 're following up much of the documentation that we found and hope it could lead to other things which I can not reveal . |
| 19 | Tom then howled and snatched it back and the parents intervened to tell him off for making a noise and for snatching . |
| 20 | He waited , out of long experience with dominant characters , until a natural break occurred and used it to ask for some background , starting with how long the Minister had known Miss Morgan . |
| 21 | Yet over most of the world it inevitably came up against social and institutional obstacles which prevented or inhibited it , and in so doing also stood in the way of the other great task which capitalist — or indeed any — industrial development set its landed sector . |
| 22 | Cadfael stooped and took it in both hands , and lifted it , and it parted from its setting without trailing a blade of grass or a torn edge of moss . |
| 23 | She stooped and picked it up . |
| 24 | Cadfael stooped and picked it up , and the thicker end , broken and dangling , shed a fluttering debris of tindery flakes as he swung it in his hand . |
| 25 | There was more persistent questioning of the assumption that the market could indeed provide enough work for all who deserved and sought it , either at home or in the colonies , at wages which enabled the worker to provide adequately for himself and his family . |
| 26 | ‘ But I decided to take my chance when it came and make it hard for Paul to get back . ’ |
| 27 | The footman came and dismantled it for me and I brought a chair to the French windows , quite casually , and there was natural light coming in . |
| 28 | It happened at night in the stable , and in the morning the Untouchable women came and dragged it outside and butchered it just in front of the house . |
| 29 | ‘ Then the police came and took it away , ’ said Anna , ‘ and we all went to hospital . ’ |
| 30 | She shook her head , lifting her coat down from the peg , her heart beating double time as he came and took it from her to slide it smoothly up her arms . |