Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] and it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | turn the crane round one way then the other and he got on the same lever but today they got , cos they got big lovely cranes where they stand there with four levers , four controls they 've got and it goes up and down . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've lost count of the hundreds of miles I 've covered and it has been pretty hectic . |
| 3 | Well , I tried to turn it into a joke — not a very good one , I admit — but I said something about that party game called consequences , you know where everyone writes down innocent things that get strung together because nobody knows what the others have written and it gets all mixed up so you get a silly story with a stupid ending . |
| 4 | In recent years , however , the world sugar prices have slumped and it has become one of the poorest areas in the Philippines . |
| 5 | The flowers and foliage of the rose have gone and it needs thoughtful pruning and tying in to prevent it whipping about in autumn . |
| 6 | Only three or four copies of the original printing have survived and it has always been extremely rare . |