Example sentences of "[verb] and it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down . |
| 2 | The belly button was protruding and it looked ready to burst . |
| 3 | I already have an estimate from Woodlands Incorporated and it seemed satisfactory to me . " |
| 4 | As far as I know , nobody noticed and it remained Labour Party policy for years afterwards . |
| 5 | It was the first show of emotion she had made and it did more to make Wexford believe her story than all the documentary evidence she had furnished him with . |
| 6 | Charlie 's office was small and poky and lightless and overcrowded , but the number of possible hiding places was limited and it seemed that she-d tried them all . |
| 7 | Its yellow eyes were looking at me ; its mouth opened and it made strange sounds at me . |
| 8 | but over the years it 's got loose and you 've probably fiddled and it did broken |
| 9 | It was the picture he loved to give and it concealed all that he really was . |
| 10 | ‘ Ashley 's hotel is in a different part of town from where everyone else is staying and it seemed unfair to expect them to take a detour , ’ his mother explained . |
| 11 | The radiocarbon discrepancy was confirmed and it became clear that radiocarbon results would need to be calibrated to convert them to calendar ages . |
| 12 | After a prolonged course of elemental diet an elimination diet was repeated and it became evident that he was profoundly sensitive to salicylate . |
| 13 | This compromise did not last and it became necessary to appoint Lord Charnwood , President of the NID , as mediator between the BDDA and aggrieved local organisations . |
| 14 | While Labour increased both its percentage of the vote and its Members of Parliament , the Liberal share of votes declined and it broke even on the ratio of seats lost and gained and because of its dubious victory in Cheltenham . |
| 15 | So of course I told him about , you see we , we 'd lowered the level of the loch at the , took four feet of it , you see and it revealed this thing in the loch . |