Example sentences of "it [vb past] [coord] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It used every means at its disposal : it argued and pressured the Versailles politicians ; it cheated in the plebiscites ; it engineered uprisings in Silesia and Wielkopolska ; it skirmished and then went to war with the Red Army for territory in the east . |
| 2 | Apparently carrion , it moved and stretched a lean back leg , which turned out to be Stripey 's . |
| 3 | In the course of time it cooled and acquired an atmosphere from the emission of gases from the rocks . |
| 4 | The major one is that the wing , had it been left there , would have snagged on the underside of the Kilcharran as it surfaced and tilted the fuselage , maybe to so acute an angle as to make access to this damned bomb difficult or impossible . ’ |
| 5 | It overheated and melted the plastic cover . |
| 6 | What crisis ? ’ statement — may have been , in his eyes , a rational assessment of the situation and the media 's tendency to exaggerate , but it ignored and misjudged the impact of media imagery and , consequently , the public 's desire for reassurance and for the problem to be ‘ resolved , . |
| 7 | At one level this meant giving each town or neighbourhood the cinema it deserved and having a range of cinemas in down-town areas . |
| 8 | Though it was relatively unsuccessful it confirmed and strengthened the trade union connection with the Labour Party in much the same way as the Taff Vale judgement had acted as an annealing force between the trade unions and the Labour Representation Committee in 1901 . |
| 9 | Believing in her heart of hearts that Nancy would soften towards her and the child once it arrived and made a niche in her heart . |
| 10 | Now all you have to do is to take the model up to a safe height , roll it inverted and flip the switch . |
| 11 | A stricter interpretation , however , is that the company would be entitled not to prepare group accounts if it obtained and published the auditors ’ report required by s 248(3) ( which confirms that the company is so entitled ) but it is not otherwise . |
| 12 | It allowed and encouraged the possibility of longer-term co-operation with business and property development , which has in the past proved more difficult to achieve with locally elected councils , through which other interests may achieve higher levels of representation . |
| 13 | Then , when the heated tyre gradually cooled , it contracted and drew the joints together and bedded itself firmly round the woodwork . |
| 14 | So she lay still , prone , trying to catch the sound of her breathing before it escaped and gave the game away . |
| 15 | It cooked and washed the dishes afterwards and preferred pubs to cafés , and its fiction cheerfully describes a world of kitchen squalor and bedsit intimacies . |
| 16 | On one occasion it jammed and made a loud buzzing noise which I hoped I managed to conceal with a loud burst of coughing . |
| 17 | Mr Major said : ‘ I am grateful for the opportunity to congratulate Liverpool on the remarkable way in which it arranged and organised the celebrations concerning the Battle of the Atlantic . |
| 18 | Hidden behind their line of sight was a precision , a passion , a calling which chilled as it touched and made the other two pause . |
| 19 | As it slowed and turned the woman driver leaned out and waved . |
| 20 | It examined and rejected the proposition that a general right of privacy should be legally recognised , pointing out that this was not the way in which English law had in recent centuries sought to protect the main democratic rights of citizens — neither the right of free speech nor the right of free assembly being embodied in statute law , for example . |
| 21 | job and y you were n't really knowing whether it included or excluded the A Cs anyway and that sort of thing . |
| 22 | It worked and halted the attack . |
| 23 | She hurriedly tidied her hair , pulling it back until it hurt and securing the tight knot with pins . |
| 24 | It acquired and developed the original photocopier technology and in its heyday it had a virtual monopoly and made huge profits . |
| 25 | Stepping forward to get a firmer grip , I trod on the rake whose handle leapt up , giving me a nasty crack on the brow and a making me stagger , knocking a bottle of systemic insecticide on to the floor , where it shattered and spread a nauseating puddle at my feet . |
| 26 | Without a word she folded it shut and laid the pencil flat beside it . |
| 27 | Mr. Ault frankly admitted to me that the plaintiff had brought these proceedings instead , in order to avoid paying compensation under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 if it altered or withdrew the consent . |
| 28 | It flipped and spun a number of times , fuel spilling out of the damaged left wing — the aircraft was doomed . |
| 29 | It hissed and spat a spray of hot fat onto his bare stomach . |
| 30 | The fourth started out the same way , then it stretched and lifted an octave . |