Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] and it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down . |
| 2 | I tried to swallow and it hurt . |
| 3 | He was amazed with the improvement I had made and it showed just what can be achieved with hard practice . |
| 4 | She was more scratched than she had realised and it felt as if every small insect in the wood had landed in her hair . |
| 5 | It was the first show of emotion she had made and it did more to make Wexford believe her story than all the documentary evidence she had furnished him with . |
| 6 | I was very very pleased to see that a lot of you have tried to do your join up handwriting after a bit of practice we 'd had and it had come out really really nicely , well done . |
| 7 | They went begging and it needed an excellent save from goalkeeper Roberts to deny Saunders again in the 76th minute . |
| 8 | It was the picture he loved to give and it concealed all that he really was . |
| 9 | Where it lay hidden and it proved kind . |
| 10 | Must remember that phrase : he could see it had struck and it struck him too : he paused to give it the silent applause of a mute punctuation . |
| 11 | He clearly thought he had won and it annoyed her . |
| 12 | Eighteen months ago it gave up its monopoly of politics but it continued to exist and it continued really as a kind of dog in the manger to prevent the er establishment of normal multi-party politics . |
| 13 | It was just what United needed and it rattled Leicester who in recent weeks have been the most successful team in the table . |
| 14 | Seb shouted up to tell him what had happened and it took Dolly no more than a couple of minutes to hurry downstairs and throw open the cottage door . |