Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] [noun] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're so well known for the ES295 Gibson guitar that it became dubbed the ‘ Scotty Moore ’ model , but you did n't use that guitar all the time , did you ? |
| 2 | it were rolled up in a wood set er cardboard cylinder and it fetched half a million did n't it ? |
| 3 | Weeping figs , weeping , weeping figs , we had one at er Hertford Road and it died |
| 4 | Bristol Crown Court has heard how Mrs Lorraine Hurkett , 26 , and her daughters Sharon , four , and Lisa , two , died after being struck by Flook 's Vauxhall Nova when it jumped red lights . |
| 5 | Mr Hill , a joint master of the Aylesbury Vale Hunt , had held the reins of his wife 's horse Max after it had landed on a five barred gate during a hunt . |
| 6 | This house was to be Lovat 's Brigade H.Q and it appeared that we were going to be there on high ground for some time . |
| 7 | Many a time had Preston 's youthful slumbers been disturbed by the sound of the deluge from Nan 's bedroom window as it hit the corrugated iron roof of their garden shed and the wild feline howls as their coitus was so balefully interrupted . |
| 8 | I became at once possessive about it … there was already talk about the war ending and Sadler 's Wells reopening and it seemed to me entirely fitting for the Sadler 's Wells Company to reopen the theatre at Rosebery Avenue after the war with a new opera by a leading young English composer . |
| 9 | One flailing arm caught Twoflower 's picture box as it skittered past on its tripod . |
| 10 | They found that £15 or £20 a week went as far in an erstwhile fishing village on Spain 's Costa Brava as it did at an English seaside hotel or holiday camp , with cheap wine and reliable sunshine thrown in . |
| 11 | Comdisco had been playing in a high stakes financial game known as risk arbitrage , hoping to get ahead of the rapid run-up in a company 's share price when it became the object of a takeover ( or the reversal of fortune that occurred when a takeover fell apart ) . |
| 12 | The clashes in January 1987 followed the sacking of print workers by Mr Murdoch 's newspaper group when it moved to its new print plant at Wapping , east London . |
| 13 | Another thing they have in common , sadly , is violence at screenings ; one kid was shot dead outside the cinema on Juice 's opening night and it caused distributors Paramount to withdraw advertising for the movie . |
| 14 | Coun Vera Moody told Langbaurgh 's planning committee that it had been a long-standing problem with young people congregating in the shopping parade . |
| 15 | PRESSURE is mounting on the Government to look at alternative means of toughening the law on Scotland 's knife thugs after it emerged that urgently-awaited legislation has been edged out of the parliamentary timetable . |
| 16 | The 80860 also formed the basis of Oki Electric 's server line until it folded last month . |
| 17 | Without a word she untied it and stuffed it into Werewolf 's lapel pocket until it looked like a dress handkerchief , then she moved behind him and pulled the sleeves of his jacket up to the elbows . |
| 18 | There was quite a run on the unfashionable theatre 's box office but it did n't take old Fred by surprise . |
| 19 | Jimmy Johnson sank his teeth into the family 's bull terrier as it had the arm of an 11-year-old boy locked in its jaws . |
| 20 | But this was just a dentist 's waiting room and it made him wonder what the rest of the house would be like . |
| 21 | Hailed as the weird and wonderful show that dared to be different , the media could n't lavish enough praise on David Lynch 's Twin Peaks when it debuted on American television in April . |
| 22 | This gun was in fact called His Majesty 's Gun Blastbuster and it required a contingent of a hundred troops to operate it . |
| 23 | We could say , for instance , of le table ronde that it lacked a canonical trait of noun phrases in French , namely , concord in respect of gender . |
| 24 | Five-month-old Charles Goodchild , from Nanpean , near St Austell , was in the front of the family 's Ford Sierra when it crashed with a lorry near Liskeard , Cornwall . |
| 25 | Well I do n't know how true it is but I have heard from somebody I know , whose husband was a a plumber , and he came to unplug a toilet at the erm Cricket Players when it closed down , he had to unplug it . |
| 26 | But Elton probably would n't mind exchanging his sparkling shorts to suffer Adams ' lumberjack shirts if it meant having a song at number one for 16 weeks like the Canadian rocker did |
| 27 | The two children , Christopher and Mathew Keys were in the back of their parents ' Metro saloon when it went out of control on the A424 near Burford . |