Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] it [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was then that they released the Wheel and it came bowling down the hill not more than ten yards from where I was standing . |
| 2 | Dawn was just breaking and I began to see a little more civilisation and it looked sort of right . |
| 3 | As Endill ate his breakfast he felt a thousand eyes watch him put his cold piece of toast into his mouth and it sent shivers down his spine . |
| 4 | An optimistic beginning , with an early goal thrown in , gave way to uncertainty and it took McCoist 's second goal to inspire Scotland to the stirring finale which brought a third from Pat Nevin five minutes from the end . |
| 5 | Given Khoneinis constant Anti-American rhetoric , this was quite a success for the United States and it led Ambassador with the new regime . |
| 6 | But certain individuals clearly played crucial roles and it meant names had to be mentioned . |
| 7 | The portiera was an old deaf lady and it took Sandison five minutes to explain who he was and who he wanted to visit . |
| 8 | Philippa , whose face was normally as radiant and untroubled as a child 's , had not stopped frowning since Lee had started talking to her that afternoon and it annoyed Conrad to see it . |
| 9 | Albert had said Mr Evans would be flaming mad when he heard about Mrs Gotobed 's Will and it seemed Albert was right . |
| 10 | Well we were n't anyway there was very few pe , I mean at this time of the year I suppose but there was one place and it said Sunday lunch , there was a sort of black board outside , Sunday lunch erm four pound was it four fifty it was four fifty was n't it ? |
| 11 | His one-man show yesterday failed to prevent the Hammers moving to fourth in the First Division but it saved Pompey from embarrassment . |
| 12 | It lasted only one and a half hours but it satisfied body and soul . |
| 13 | Played me one day and it played Annabel one day . |
| 14 | The job involved visiting mining camps , quarries and oilfields all over the world selling explosives and it gave Haslam his first taste of the excitement of travel , something that has remained with him all his life . |
| 15 | The sun had moved behind the rooftops and it cast shadows halfway up the little houses on the opposite side of the turning . |
| 16 | The plaintiff , acting under section 222 of the Local Government Act 1972 ‘ to promote or protect the interests of the inhabitants in its area , ’ brought an action for declarations that the dock company and its sublessees operating in the port had created a public nuisance and it sought injunctions restraining them from permitting heavy goods vehicles coming to and from the port between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m . |
| 17 | It was our first time in the saddle and it had daughter , 11 , champing at the bit for more . |
| 18 | And the revenue got mean and decided it could n't afford the time of serving officers and it left pre-retirement council and other bodies with a gap to fill er the only other people who are er professional if you like , who could fill it , would be accountants and they were n't available . |
| 19 | Another thing they have in common , sadly , is violence at screenings ; one kid was shot dead outside the cinema on Juice 's opening night and it caused distributors Paramount to withdraw advertising for the movie . |
| 20 | The approach may have risked inhibiting the searcher 's behaviour but it offered continuity and some close-ups of individual steps of the search . |
| 21 | I told my dad that was I chucked his in the bin and it had sort of stains on it and I told him that was |
| 22 | but they were all to do with sort of satellite dishes and it was in their reception area and it had satellite T V on , and it was an advertising thing as much |
| 23 | A very unsubtle reminder of her aggression this morning and it brought Maggie back to life . |
| 24 | It was er cut out of palm trees and it got palm trees on hundred feet high , both sides of the runway . |
| 25 | Spring comes early to the Riviera and it made Modigliani , always sensitive to change , more restless than ever . |
| 26 | Ian Fleming 's Casino Royale ( 1953 ) was not a bestseller but it introduced James Bond , the agent with the number 007 , a licence to kill and a taste for the best of everything , especially girls . |
| 27 | Police gave no details but it appeared Mr Anderson fell dying with gunshot wounds , and the Ford Capri car sped off with the gunman and Ms Fisher inside . |
| 28 | On our first day of trading we took £8.36 , which delighted us , but a local health nut had eaten the geraniums and it cost £6 to replace them . |
| 29 | I went up the road and it went bang and blew a out the back ! |
| 30 | He said that Maccas goal would be credited as an OG , cos he was trying to pull it back from the byline but it hit sherwood and span in . |