Example sentences of "[verb] and [vb past] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tram whined and sparked as it pulled up at the fare stage near the Dennistoun Palais and Whitehill Street . |
| 2 | There the microscopic ovum was revealed and followed as it started its monthly journey to await possible fertilisation . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He fired and believed that it had gone down . |
| 5 | He said , ‘ Did you have a good Christmas ? ’ , and not looking at him she thanked him for asking and replied that it had been quiet but nice . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Oh at any rate , he they started rebidding and then of course it went and went and it fell and then this Mr gave up and whoever the other one was , Do n't remember who he was . |
| 8 | It grew with the power it was picking up , grew and grew until it filled the cave . |
| 9 | Looking back I suppose it was then that I started to brood about a problem that grew and grew until it burst out into the open at the World Championships . |
| 10 | because at that meeting you can imagine that twenty people gathering then you end up not really making any decisions , far too many people , there was a lot discussed and aired and it concerns expressed and it was a case , and I 'm going from recollection here , it was really a case of let's go away and think about it and calm down and look at it rationally |
| 11 | Now I sat beside her and watched as the cloth was folded and refolded until it became a nubin . |
| 12 | We ran and ran but it chased us . |
| 13 | Justice Rutledge proceeded to examine the evil which the statute was designed to cure and decided that it encompassed people outside the traditional common law classification of an employee . |