Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [coord] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , I forgot all about that but it did n't matter anyway . |
| 2 | In contrast , Cramlington is ‘ non-urban ’ and was intended to be a more or less ( there was always some equivocation about this and it grew over time ) free-standing new town , located on a ‘ green field ’ site quite separate from the Tyneside conurbation . |
| 3 | There 's an instrumental track called Bone Down , and there was originally a guitar solo after that but it did n't fit well — you know , like a good solo will make the song move in the right direction . |
| 4 | Oh the by-pass road , you know the north northern part of Ipswich , along the by-pass and of course had ordered trolley buses , because you had to order 'em about two years ahead of time , erm , to take care of that but it did n't materialize and we had a surplus of buses and some of them were sold off , I think some went to Walsall , some to Wolverhampton and er I , I think it was one of those that was sold to Wals Woolwich , figured in the national newspapers that had toppled over . |
| 5 | Needless to say , an appeal took place in the summer of 1991 and it came to light that although the Sharmas had been entitled to take Sophie and Robbie , they had never done so . |
| 6 | This was the summer of 1969 and it fired me into action . |
| 7 | Oh poetry some of those poems that Bon had in her Touchstones book , especially the ones , the war , about the war , I read some of those and it made me cry , it was so sad . |
| 8 | It was inevitable that she should start like that but it did n't save her from a sense of her inadequacy . |
| 9 | so you could pull it up and down and the effects went out the bottom of the tube , the tube came up like that and it came over , and like that and then the shade would be like that and then you could swing it round |
| 10 | Kevin 's brother , who fancied himself as an amateur psychologist , said you did n't really forget things like that and it meant Lyn must unconsciously want not to wear it — ergo , not to be married . |
| 11 | It was thing with two prongs and you tap it in like that and it lifted the neeps , then you did that with the yeuk |
| 12 | Yes a row of houses and of course when I saw I looked out the door and there was this plane swooping down like that and it seemed so low because they were aiming an and the bomb fell in the cattle market and , and I threw myself on to the stone floor , you see , and er and presently one of the ambulance men came round to my office door and he said , are you alright ? |
| 13 | Well , some of the racecourse gon na be made like that and it cost a fortune , mind ya . |
| 14 | He goes well I was playing with your chicken like this and it spat at me , so I bit its head off , clamped its eggs and set fire to its nest ! |
| 15 | I thought it showed a gross lack of understanding on her part to have made a comment like this and it made me doubt whether she understood the complexity of the situation . |
| 16 | The German and American had crossed swords on and off the track throughout 1990 and it seemed as if Bradl needed Kocinski 's ‘ presence ’ to inspire him for the final showdown . |
| 17 | Like the dog 's born er after , before that , and before that , and before that and it showed you all the owners and everything , right ? |
| 18 | The plan was essentially that first worked out in 1756 but it had now been elaborated and refined . |
| 19 | so they got that and the carpet it had been seven ninety nine in Allied and it had been reduced three ninety nine for a week |
| 20 | There was no harm in that but it landed him in trouble every time . |
| 21 | Qin had founded this weekly journal in 1980 and it had played a major role in the campaign for economic and political reform in China until being closed down in April 1989 following the outbreak of student demonstrations [ see p. 36587 ] . |
| 22 | ‘ I shouted at it in English but it kept on . |
| 23 | The Communists had abandoned the Leftwing Movement in 1929 and it had immediately collapsed . |
| 24 | Ma Nuit Chez Maud ( 12 , Renoir and NFT ) was made by Eric Rohmer in 1969 and it came early in his studies of human relations . |
| 25 | She dug it in deeper and it gave a horrific screech . |
| 26 | The Léon type was first formally distinguished from other Breton cattle in 1859 and it resisted the ubiquitous crossing to the Durham Shorthorn . |
| 27 | That was a very shrewd thing to say in 1940 but it did not happen for nearly five years . |
| 28 | A military man , Captain John Smith , pulled the colony together in 1608 but it became all too clear that the colonists were not even able to feed themselves ; 1609 was remembered as ‘ the starving time ’ and the settlers were preparing to give up and leave for England when Lord De La Warr arrived with fresh supplies and new settlers in June 1610 . |
| 29 | As the Legal Aid scheme was given to the Law Society to administer in 1949 and it had also been responsible for the voluntary and statutory schemes in 1959 it was quite logical that the Law Society should also run the new advice scheme and that it should use the local and regional structure which already existed to administer the legal aid scheme . |
| 30 | The first race was from Paris to Lyons in 1900 and it remained an open road race until 1903 when it was held over the Athy circuit in Ireland . |