Example sentences of "it [vb past] [coord] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Albert 's dingy sink had been scoured to its original yellow colour , and the window above it gleamed and winked with unaccustomed cleanliness . |
| 2 | I was within half a mile of Darrowby with the lights of the little town beginning to wink between the bare roadside branches when a car approached , went past , then I heard a squeal of brakes as it stopped and began to double back . |
| 3 | He stopped with his hands full of water ; it dripped and fell in little runnels on the earth , but he did not notice . |
| 4 | Green blood spurted wildly into the air , much of it landing into the stew pot where it fizzed and crackled like little gun shots . |
| 5 | It bubbled and steamed like corrosive acid . |
| 6 | The movement was not organised , it grew and flourished in individual schools and in individual classrooms . |
| 7 | And I took it out in the spring and put it in the garden and then it revived and came on nice . |