Example sentences of "it and was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house had a large garden with a small river running at the foot of it and was situated in the small quiet village of . |
| 2 | He had swum to the raft , put his head against it and was pushing it forward with heavy thrusts of his back legs . |
| 3 | Her foot , when she explored it with her fingers , had a couple of thorns stuck in it and was bleeding . |
| 4 | They finally halted in a rough copse of thorn that had lopsided boulders scattered about it and was sheltered from the wind by the long shoulder of a hill . |
| 5 | Anthony Quayle — on the hunt for a young lead to star in his Festival of Britain Shakespeare season — came to see it and was conquered . |
| 6 | Only DEC has adopted it and was rumoured to be lobbying for its continued development within the framework of the consortium . |
| 7 | Her look was so intense that Helen half-turned , almost believing that someone had opened it and was standing just inside the room . |
| 8 | The door was bolted but Wycliffe banged on it and was admitted by a uniformed policeman . |
| 9 | This unpleasant structure merges well with the rocks cape around it and was used , during the Second World War , as a prison . |
| 10 | I came near to it and was cured . |
| 11 | The lake of liquid peat had burst through into the workings beneath it and was deluging into the colliery . |
| 12 | Charles asked to read it and was told he could n't . |
| 13 | He had rested it and was reserving himself to defend the K2 10km title . |