Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [verb] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One had mange so badly it was nearly bald : it moped around , scratching the exposed pink skin that had cracked and flaked where it stretched briefly over the jutting spine and ribcage . |
| 2 | The idea was considered but rejected because it did not meet the Government 's timetable . |
| 3 | There the microscopic ovum was revealed and followed as it started its monthly journey to await possible fertilisation . |
| 4 | Within the Labour Party the Socialist League was finding that its attempts to remould policy were resented and rejected and it began to look for allies outside the Party . |
| 5 | Once the process was completed , older boys , apprentice papermakers , came and dislodged the sheet , taking it away to the drying trestles , where it had to be carefully watched and removed after it had dried but before it began to turn yellow in the sun . |
| 6 | The EC Commissioner , Sir Leon Brittan , warned that the UK would be damaged and isolated if it failed to participate in the treaty . |
| 7 | It was shimmering , incandescent , as the colours deepened and the long blue-black tail unfurled and stiffened until it gained the strength to fly . |
| 8 | Maybe we are like a photocopy of God that got a bit crumpled and smudged as it came out of the machine so that his image in us has got a bit spoilt , but that does not alter the fact that every person has something of God about them . |
| 9 | Now I sat beside her and watched as the cloth was folded and refolded until it became a nubin . |
| 10 | The endorsee-buyer 's message was also tested and accepted if it contained the portion of the original seller 's test key . |