Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [coord] [vb past] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The accidental loss or destruction of a will has no effect upon its validity , and its contents may be proved by the production of copies or drafts , or even by the recollection of persons who have seen it or heard it read . |
| 2 | The wind coursed over it and flapped it — little whip noises that stirred it and made it seem alive , the dog-face scowling . |
| 3 | I did n't bother the milkman , but a lady kindly came and put in a little battery — and then the neighbours adjusted it and got it going . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're thinking that the aunt killed him and made it look as though he 'd done it himself . ’ |
| 5 | I nearly forgot you , I mean one week he rang me and had it pinched out of his car |
| 6 | Certainly , there were examples of transparent deception : for example , when , as proof of their transcendental patriotism , the ICP dissolved itself and announced it had become the Association for Marxist Studies . |
| 7 | The developmentalists grabbed it and used it to make distance between the materially rich and poor nations so that very soon ‘ Third World ’ universally connoted poverty , overpopulation , disease , disorder , illiteracy , violent social upheavals and every imaginable human horror . |
| 8 | I repeated it and got it read back with scepticism . |
| 9 | Well , Di saw it and recorded it did n't they ? |
| 10 | She chewed hers and found it contained cod liver oil . |
| 11 | Perhaps they did n't want to scare me and thought it better not to say too much , but I wish they had said something . |
| 12 | John Urry and I then broadened it and transformed it to make it the cornerstone of our chapter on postmodernism in The End of Organized Capitalism , especially by locating it within a framework of a book which is essentially a comparative political economy of advanced capitalist societies . |
| 13 | The world was a less " moral " place than it had been before the war : Germany and Japan had brought to a crisis the sickness which infected civilization , but their collapse had not cured it but left it raging everywhere . " |
| 14 | BuNo 133722 became a familiar sight at most West Cost USA airshows over the years until Lindsey purchased it and had it flown to the UK . |