Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv prt] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It fluttered up and down on her shoulders when the machine slowed . |
| 2 | At that time it got around that he was a straight-faced , humourless character , which Wegerle regards as a slander . |
| 3 | Do n't know how it got round cos it 's all over Emma 's books and Lisa 's right and they 're going , who 's Billy then ? |
| 4 | To those who did not criticize , Spurgeon was virtually a demi-god : when it got out that ‘ the pastor ’ , a vegetarian and total abstainer , also smoked a cigar a day — ‘ to the glory of God ’ , he quipped to a visiting American — the news ‘ caused a terrible scandal in the dissenting world ’ . |
| 5 | Er we 're going to er get it drafted up and er we have some money in the , we have some money in our budget , for a gift , and it seems to me appropriate erm that the gift that we might make to Cheskevod is the s trading charter which we can get for the money that we 've budgeted er written by a calligrapher who I 've already contacted , who said that they can do it erm well , for that sort of price , in both English and Czech . |
| 6 | It rode up and down his face , his eyes and nose , and pressed against his lips . |
| 7 | She saw herself , her head a foam of lacy white like the shining tumbleweed caught in the evening light as it floats through the air , handed on to the bar stool , her little feet — her good point — showing beneath the hem of her skirt where it rode up as she adjusted herself . |
| 8 | Headed back up by to , hook ball , looking for , gets his head underneath and it 's just over the top of the bar , he got the full force of his head beneath that ball and it looped up and over the top of er an anxious looking Paul crossbar . |
| 9 | And then it plunged down and down and down . |
| 10 | And getting half of it chucked back because it 's not clean enough . |
| 11 | on the box you can see it made up and then with all the bits and pieces separate |
| 12 | It bounced up and I turned to see the ball hovering above my stumps . |
| 13 | If she leaves it plugged in and switched on again she wo n't get it back . |
| 14 | That is , it it it petered out and that was the end of the road you see . |
| 15 | Subsequently , it caught on and , for example , led to a fabulous struggle in the third game of the 1989 Timman-Speelman match . |
| 16 | But it caught on and this week around 100 young people came in to enjoy the snooker and non-alcoholic bar at their own meeting place , The Jam Pot Centre , run by the Church of the Nazarene in Lothian Road , Hartlepool . |
| 17 | It swam straight into my chest and bowled me over , thank God it swam on but the adrenalin was flowing so all I could think about was what sort of picture I 'd got . |
| 18 | It swelled up when I finished |
| 19 | They 'd get so much grain and they 'd eat it so quickly that it swelled out before they had time to digest it . |
| 20 | Specialix got out , he says , when it found out that all an associate member got for its money was access to pre-published specifications . |
| 21 | The $24,000,000 production was to be an unmitigated disaster and was to bring Twentieth Century-Fox close to bankruptcy when it found out that the heyday of the film musical was past . |
| 22 | Windsor , 49 , of Mid Glamorgan , was trapped inside the jeep as it toppled over and kept on rolling . |
| 23 | It poked out and wriggled like a slug . |
| 24 | I gave it a coat yesterday morning and then it hardened up and I rubbed it down with a bit of fine wire wool today |
| 25 | A helicopter tracked the car as it weaved in and out of traffic near Bristol . |
| 26 | He shook his arm vigorously for more than a minute , but it was impossible to tell in the uneven twilight whether it dropped out or not . |
| 27 | But before it was consumed entirely , it lifted off and shot up towards the painstyled plaster of the ceiling . |
| 28 | My er my sister worked in the grenade shop and erm after she ca she 'd been working at , on the manor , do you know the manor at Willenhall and then er she decided to go on with the war work and she was courting the man named , John and his father was the timekeeper , later H & T Hornes , but erm it fizzled out and anyway the romance did but erm |
| 29 | But the little dog I went , I took a friend to collect her little dog from the vet it 's had a double hernia , has n't it , double hernia , it , it had a tremendous operation dear little thing , but she said he had a wart under he 's eye and on it 's own accord it dried up and dropped off . |
| 30 | But the Escort did n't stop , it came on until it blocked the road completely and before I could react , my door had been pulled open and a warrant card thrust in my face . |