Example sentences of "it [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One entire wall was constructed as a glass cliff down which fell a waterfall some six feet wide ; the pool into which it tumbled smoked with spray and the whole effect was disconcerting , as of some plumbing disaster on a majestic scale . |
| 2 | The egg in the mixture makes it stay put , instead of running all over the place as most cheese mixtures do . |
| 3 | First attempt to get it to go failed because she had n't plugged it in to the electricity supply . |
| 4 | Alas , US Gold have retained this irritating quirk , and you 've only three credits to play with ( I tried putting a 50p piece into my Commodore when I ran out , but it got jammed between the keys ) . |
| 5 | ‘ It got worn out ? ’ |
| 6 | Sometimes when it got worn like that it would twine round the other soldier so that his head could be pulled off . |
| 7 | It lasted until 1924 , when it got blown up during the Irish civil war . |
| 8 | It got blown against a thatch-stone and got killed . |
| 9 | France 's Thomson invested in a factory making cathode-ray tubes but found that if Poland sent the EC more than 2.5m ecus-worth ( $1.1m ) of tubes it got hit by tariffs . |
| 10 | and the inevitable happened it it got hit and the next time we saw it it was it was galloping across the field with it 's one of his front paws |
| 11 | she would n't chain it up , and it got hit and killed on the erm road just outside the Post Office was n't it ? |
| 12 | Said it got broke , . |
| 13 | Think it was with a bit of Ellie 's assistance that it got made like that . |
| 14 | It got rid of problems until the next morning . |
| 15 | It got rid of nationalised monopolies that were a drain on taxpayers , allowed the people to own them and ensured services improved . |
| 16 | It got rid of the space between my teeth , which I did n't like anyway , so some good maybe came out of it after all . ’ |
| 17 | And nationalisation : that was great because it got rid of the old bosses . |
| 18 | It got rid of the crap if I can put it that way , sorted out my priorities . |
| 19 | The course was n't necessarily seen as all that important at first — it got fitted in . |
| 20 | It got phased out so that the Ministry did n't pay anything at all but to get this grant you had to keep tremendous records copies of invoices and you had to get er and the bus grant and the , the permission from them . |
| 21 | Well , apparently what 's happened there , I do know , because erm , one or two of the people who looked at it got involved , and whereas the property started out at some figure in the high hun hundred and fifty , hundred and eighty thousand , something like that . |
| 22 | Then it got flooded because people had ripped out the pipes next door , which was empty too . " |
| 23 | it got hooked on the back of that one with a large paper clip . |
| 24 | As a trans-Pyrenean kingdom , Navarre lasted from its foundation in the ninth century until the sixteenth century , when it got broken in two , Spanish Navarre becoming Spanish in 1512 while French or Basse-Navarre was incorporated into the French crown in 1589 , when its current king became king of France as Henri IV . |
| 25 | I had a cream one and it got wrecked by going I think Neil put it in the wash with one of his black T-shirts . |
| 26 | I 've only got this one , I had a cream one and it got wrecked by going , I think Neil put it in the wash with one of his black tee shirts , and |
| 27 | Oh it got kicked into touch did that cos it too loud . |
| 28 | And of course when it got heated it used to blow and it used to blow all the burning debris all over . |
| 29 | tt They 'd got two handles which was b made it mobile , two wheels , and used it Have four sacks at the end of this threshing engine , hanging on little hooks , and and a bloke there seeing that it got filled alright and it when it was full , they used to run this thing underneath a sack , crank it up by hand , like that , till they got it to the required height , then nestle it on their shoulders , you see there was a There 's a there 's an art in carrying c In carrying coal and there 's an art in carrying corn and there 's an art in carrying beef . |
| 30 | A screwed access plug or ‘ eye ’ in the bottom of the U made it possible to empty the trap of debris if it got blocked . |