Example sentences of "[vb past] it [coord] [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been sent to an isolated kibbutz with food but the Arabs stopped it and killed forty-seven Jews . |
| 2 | He found it and grew absorbed . |
| 3 | But if you changed it and said all black people are evil and are the cause of all the evil the world ! |
| 4 | For example , a general wage increase in a factory will be passed on to everyone , whether they backed the union campaign which secured it or remained inactive during a period of industrial militancy . |
| 5 | Yeah that 's a big and my and that stuck out the bucket like that , well going over the top we had a hood over the top tumbler to stop the flashing , so my father stopped , thinking that was a bit of wood and were gon na break the top of the tumbler , so he stop and out and scrubbed it and found that was this bone and I think if my memory serve me right that 's in the , the Fleet Museum now . |
| 6 | ‘ Get a sample for analysis , please , ’ Kathleen instructed crossly , and with economy of movement she drained the tube , refilled it and flushed several times until the water was clear , and then withdrew the tube . |
| 7 | It was a finely worked piece of silver and obviously of great value ; but while she admired it and felt honoured to receive it , Sara could not honestly say that she enjoyed having its chain about her neck . |
| 8 | ‘ I thoroughly enjoyed it but felt five years older after the experience . ’ |
| 9 | I enjoyed it and followed most of the Italian OK . |
| 10 | Matisse substantiated this story by his statement to Warnod that he had bought a negro statuette in a curiosity shop in the rue de Rennes , on his way to Gertrude Stein 's , and that Picasso saw it and became enthusiastic about it . |
| 11 | He nodded his thanks as he took it and flipped another cigarette butt into the toilet . |
| 12 | Scott 's letter was long , rambling and almost cringing in tone ; nevertheless , Palmerston read it and replied five days later with a not unfriendly letter in his own hand . |
| 13 | I assumed something was wrong with the unit , so I took it back from where I bought it and got another one . |
| 14 | Whoever wrote it or designed those basic garments knew that you would be struggling to learn all you could in the shortest possible time and that to give you concise diagrams and stitch and row numbers would cut down any need for extra calculations by you . |
| 15 | It stretched it and started all bleeding and I had and I had to sew it up with a sewing kit . |
| 16 | You were glad when someone suggested that the butter or the jam should be cut up into rations even though you did see the hard selfishness in his eyes as he said it and felt sick because you knew that normally he was neither hard nor selfish . |