Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it got on from that you see . |
| 2 | I 've spent all these years thinking about it , wondering how it got in to that house . |
| 3 | There was Tizer and cream soda and beer and lassi to drink , all of it laid out on white tablecloths with tiny paper napkins for all of us . |
| 4 | In 1879 Crookes sold the Quarterly Journal ; it lived on until 1885 , becoming in its last years a monthly-but it had never been a leading journal , and general scientific reviewing never caught on . |
| 5 | As L & Y shed No. 17 it housed up to 40 locomotives including LYR 4-4-0s , 2-4-2 tanks , 2-6-2 tanks and Dreadnought 4-6-0s for working the passenger traffic to Preston Manchester and Liverpool . |
| 6 | It swooped down on one of the dogs and was standing on its chest with its beak at her throat . |
| 7 | It made up for all the poverty and hardship they had suffered , and planted a new , fierce determination in her to make her way in the world , to marry well and make up for all the injustice they had suffered because of her Uncle Harry . |
| 8 | So it made up for any other , er , you know . |
| 9 | Er there 's another book which is similar to the other one in the sense that it made up of some papers by Phillips , Steel and Tants and that has some information about Mexicano in it , er and you find that some people er were giving Mexican language a low a low prestige rate whereas other group in the community were doing the opposite and giving a high prestige rate or certainly a less low one , er in favour of spanish a lot of the Because it was in I think it 's in South America I guess , er you find that a lot of the locals were switching to spanish because it was coming the dominant language er because of societal pressures and constraints and so on . |
| 10 | But what it lost in architectural refinement , it made up in staggering scale . |
| 11 | It arose out of genuine social issues , not because there was a disproportionate number of prejudiced personalities living in the locality . |
| 12 | I think what was in the village news it arose out of those children 's survey down there and what happened was that Mrs did n't think we 'd er put in perhaps as politely as we should . |
| 13 | and it changed out of all recognition . |
| 14 | The remaining 75 per cent — much of it ground down to toxic sludge and non-degradable waste — ends up dumped in landfill sites . |
| 15 | The only way to ensure that the unwanted behaviour does not reappear is to keep it dampened down by more punishments . |
| 16 | It drove off without any siren or light . |
| 17 | A secondary school is making ten teachers redundant , just a month after it opted out of local authority control . |
| 18 | The nasal strip was popular until the middle of the twelfth century , when it dropped out of general use . |
| 19 | This was a bar that er went under the bomb like that when they fastened them up , and then when they dropped the bombs this bar was in a clip , like where me finger is , i in a clip so when they released them it dropped out of this clip the bar went as well of course , down that went down went the bomb drop bars with it used to be make them day and night and things like that and er of course there was er Bloxwich Lock and Stamping we used to do odd stamping , odd forgings and things li and er that was other part of the war work . |
| 20 | Inside , the rooms are light and panelled with elegant pedimented overdoors , and it is sad to think that the full splendour of Bullen Reynes 's house was only enjoyed by his son and his family for a few short years ; the bulk of it burned down in 1704 . |
| 21 | It burned down in 1697 — only Inigo Jones 's Banqueting Hall survives . |
| 22 | Well I got it whittled down to six extra . |
| 23 | His own answer to it was in some ways remarkably similar to those he attacked , for it added up to this : historical study can not bring Jesus down to our own time ; rather , it reveals his strangeness to us , and he loses all colour and significance if we attempt to tear him out of his own historical and religious setting in late Judaism . |
| 24 | She told me it added up to thousands and I had to pay her back by giving her my salary for the next ten years . |
| 25 | And the horse it came up with this long wooden handle , I do n't know whether it was three or four , I ca n't remember , but that was for some couchgrass . |
| 26 | but as I wrote this and you know put in the acc th the conflict , it came up to two thousand five hundred words and I taped it and timed it and I 've been butchering it and cutting out all the really nice little sentences and the nice sentences and I 've got it down to two one sixty and now with that announcement on the end , as I 've got it taped , it 's fourteen minutes fifty-nine seconds for a fifteen minute slot , so it 's about as precise as you 're gon na get it . |
| 27 | I rinsed it off with wet tissue , dried it off with the same soft wipes , and it came up like new . |
| 28 | and I just , I threw buckets of water on it to rinse it , and it dried because it was really warm and it came up like new |
| 29 | And it came through on red Gordon ! |
| 30 | The first game was good , but it came down to one player , Garrison , who was desperate to win , and one player , Graff , who just kind of did n't want to lose . |