Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [conj] it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and it worked , and it got over to Australia , it got unpacked and it still worked when it got to Australia , and it went on the stand and it stood on the stand for a week or however long it was . |
| 2 | In July the company had said that it then expected 32,000 people to take redundancy this year , up from the 20,000 forecast at the beginning of the year : now it says it expects 40,000 to go , 8000 of them in Europe — of which the UK share is 600 , and 4,000 of them in Asia . |
| 3 | She had replied that it still seemed an expensive policy compared with even the dearest of umbrellas , and George had thought about that and said : ‘ You ca n't piss into an umbrella , either . |
| 4 | So much had happened that it hardly seemed so important any more . |
| 5 | Three days had passed before it suddenly struck Lisa that she had so far been spared her most dreaded aggravation — the aggravation of Alexander Vass constantly breathing down her neck . |
| 6 | so it were n't interacting between the two , everything had changed and it still did it , were a new kit , got a cabinet of setting line , changed it and it still did it . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , it was necessary to attempt do so : the alternative was to confess that the administration had failed where it most wanted to succeed . |