Example sentences of "it [vb past] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes when it got worn like that it would twine round the other soldier so that his head could be pulled off . |
| 2 | ‘ It got worn out ? ’ |
| 3 | It lasted until 1924 , when it got blown up during the Irish civil war . |
| 4 | The course was n't necessarily seen as all that important at first — it got fitted in . |
| 5 | It got phased out so that the Ministry did n't pay anything at all but to get this grant you had to keep tremendous records copies of invoices and you had to get er and the bus grant and the , the permission from them . |
| 6 | tt They 'd got two handles which was b made it mobile , two wheels , and used it Have four sacks at the end of this threshing engine , hanging on little hooks , and and a bloke there seeing that it got filled alright and it when it was full , they used to run this thing underneath a sack , crank it up by hand , like that , till they got it to the required height , then nestle it on their shoulders , you see there was a There 's a there 's an art in carrying c In carrying coal and there 's an art in carrying corn and there 's an art in carrying beef . |
| 7 | I 'd like to say that I remember something about the rest of that walk but I do n't , only that it rained , then it rained some more , and when it got fed up with that , it rained again . |
| 8 | Well , this old bell must have fallen off a ship , or perhaps it got washed out here in a flood . |
| 9 | It has its new smell still — the perfect red plastic smell , the smell of writing numbers in arithmetic books ruled in squares ; the smell it had before it got mixed up in the dust and plasticine and tangled electric flex in the toy drawer . |
| 10 | backing up , when I er , at , at the appeal , the medical centre made a very long presentation over the proximity , the closeness to their erm , surgery and they argued about the height of buildings , now it got passed as sheltered united , er , which means elderly and quiet occupancy . |
| 11 | Well , we enjoyed that outing , er we had tea on the roof , which was all glass , never seen anything like it before and I sha n't see it again since it got burnt down anyway . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've also got an old ‘ 57 brown sunburst which I do n't take out on the road , as last time it got knocked over twice , and I do n't want it to get battered any more . |
| 13 | Following news that the SQL Access Group is slowing down work on Phases 3 of its SQL Specification ( UX No 385 ) , the group now says it is changing direction to focus on market demands , and admits it got carried away with the academics of development . |
| 14 | pricey ( It got crimped round these Magic Wands ) |
| 15 | ‘ It got forced in . ’ |
| 16 | Father to son … cousins , uncles … it got handed down . |
| 17 | And then they stopped it and it got spread about and then blah blah blah and then it came well it spread all through Europe and |
| 18 | THE body of a 26-year-old man who was apparently buried alive while trying to rescue one of his terriers when it became trapped down a hole , has been found on a Welsh mountainside . |
| 19 | The great majority of Selmer/Adams colours were pink ( it became known colloquially as Flamingo or Salmon ) and Sonic Blue . |
| 20 | He tells her , too , about the toy drawer in which the pencil-case was originally lost , and the characteristic choking dusty smell it would develop as the toys in it became mixed up with each other to form a kind of solid pudding , which had to be taken out at the end of each school holidays , and separated once again into its components . |
| 21 | In the twilight the water , gushing and frothing , looked a long way down but the sound it made felt only a few feet below . |
| 22 | Erm , most of it grown , it 'd grown back and it has grown back funny |
| 23 | There was stuff piled up in it till it 'd spilled over on to the pathway . |
| 24 | It 'd gone right out of my mind until just now . |
| 25 | But it 'd flashed up like neon in my head once or twice since then : Warning . |
| 26 | I 'd felt a bit sticky and dirty first thing but it 'd worn off now . |
| 27 | erm , said that it 'd started already , erm whoever was doing the erm , whoever was doing the sport and that with the bob , he had said he could of dropped in a note to say that erm started already and at that stage , erm |
| 28 | But I 'm , but I 'm sure it 'd got up to a hundred and something pounds . |
| 29 | It 's like the story Mum used to read me when I was a kid about the white puppy-dog that got lost and its little girl owner looked everywhere for it and when she found it again she did n't recognize it because it 'd got so dirty it was n't her little white dog any longer . |
| 30 | I 'd tried it once or twice before , a coupla times when I was younger , but I was n't over keen on it because of the , y'know , just 'cos of the name it 'd got really , y'know , having to inject it and that . |