Example sentences of "[pron] and it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He passed the day skulking around cafes , and when Georges met him by chance later on he confessed he 'd been beaten up in his flat because he 'd agreed to do a favour for someone and it had gone wrong . |
| 2 | It was his and it seemed a palace . |
| 3 | She raised her tear-stained face to his and it seemed quite natural to place his lips on has , and since she seemed to welcome it , he kept them there . |
| 4 | When 40-year-old Australian Jack Brabham won the World Championship in 1966 , he became the first man to win the title in a car manufactured by himself and it reaped the rewards of a gamble he took five years earlier when he left Cooper to develop his own Grand Prix car . |
| 5 | Not a good actor , but Charles made him play himself and it worked . |
| 6 | She found nothing and it hurt so badly . |
| 7 | ‘ I started with nothing and it did n't do any harm , ’ she said , in the look-at-me-now manner of the comfortably off . |
| 8 | But the new bloke sent it back to me and it went on to win six races , and I felt so sick for the lads . |
| 9 | He put in a good word for me and it went on from there . |
| 10 | The big grey monster sat in front of me and it looked at me . |
| 11 | I thought of Angela Brickell 's death and of the attacks on Harry and me and it seemed that all three had had one purpose , which was to keep things as they were . |
| 12 | You needed me and it made me feel so good ! |
| 13 | I 'd stare at him and he 'd stare back at me and it made me want to shoot myself . |
| 14 | For example , it said I had a daughter called Samantha ( which is not true ) , and it said that I had a Citroen car ( which I do n't — I drive a Renault ) and that I spent three years at the Royal College of Art painting ten-inch red stripes on a piece of canvas and then it quoted me and it said : ' ’ I do n't know why we did it , ’ says Terry . |
| 15 | ‘ I had my top made for me and it cost £70 . |
| 16 | it was , it was actually there was a programme on television and my husband took me to the doctor and he said he felt I 'd been on it too long , I 'd been on it about six months and when I come off it , I come off it pretty quick and I ended up erm I did n't know what was wrong with me and it ended up I 've now got epilepsy , and they did n't know if it was caused through erm I took a stroke about three four month after that and then I got the epilepsy as well , so they do n't know if that me coming off it |
| 17 | She probably told me and it did n't stick . |
| 18 | They heard it , wheeled up in the air towards it and right past me and it turned off the road in fear . |
| 19 | And three great big bins from from the they called them and I had three bins in my shed that I stored the barley in and I put the moisture extractor into them and it blew It had wee in it and it blew all the moisture out . |
| 20 | Those disciples , they had the storm stilled for them and it got easier sailing . |
| 21 | And I pulled them and it went wrong . |
| 22 | It hurt us , it hurt them and it hurt the sport . |
| 23 | It was a sound they knew , one often heard at night from within the dark walls of the cottages in the village , but out here it was around them and with them and part of them and it had an eerie quality as though inside the vixen some diabolic spirit was entrapped , a demon screeching its despair . |
| 24 | Without doubt the train was following them and it had passed over several fog detonators without setting them off . |
| 25 | I seemed fated to spend my time with them and it made me feel incomplete as though I were yet unborn . |
| 26 | The legendary Miller ski , made in the USA , was one of them and it became a rather hot seller in the upmarket ski boutiques of London . |
| 27 | The dress slipped to her narrow hips where it remained supported by his hands , until he raised them and it fell to the floor and her body gleamed naked . |
| 28 | Ample proof indeed that it had recognized them and it realized that it was the entrance to its home . |
| 29 | Its tension caught the reader , there was an emotion in it , shared between him and them and it turned all his attention away from himself on to the subject matter he was speaking . |
| 30 | And that satisfied them and it satisfied me . |