Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [vb pp] [coord] it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down .
2 He was amazed with the improvement I had made and it showed just what can be achieved with hard practice .
3 She was more scratched than she had realised and it felt as if every small insect in the wood had landed in her hair .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Where it lay hidden and it proved kind .
7 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 .
8 He clearly thought he had won and it annoyed her .
9 It was just what United needed and it rattled Leicester who in recent weeks have been the most successful team in the table .
10 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 .
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