Example sentences of "[verb] it [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In her child 's understanding it seemed that it was her own liberation that was the cause of the celebration , and the arrival of the princess , the flags which appeared on all the buildings and the succession of functions for which her mother and Denzil put on their beautiful evening clothes and left her with the maid . |
| 2 | Change incontinence pads frequently , and pay special attention to the person 's skin , keeping it washed and dried . |
| 3 | As it moved it creaked and crackled , an old tree moving over crisp leaves . |
| 4 | When this body , which was composed of an independent chairman and two representatives from both sides , eventually reported it suggested that there should be no change in conditions and wages in the industry . |
| 5 | Every time he walked that 's him come back again and every time he stopped it stopped and this happened a few times and he was very scared and he thought he had better go and see what the noise was and anything well it was just a pet sheep tangled up in its tether . |
| 6 | He accepts it happened and he is appalled by it , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Joan had not visited Brian 's grave in five years and had expected to find it neglected and overgrown . |
| 8 | Leaving it , they marched to Hastings , to find it deserted and on fire ; in retribution for this ‘ scorched earth policy ’ they burnt Rye to the ground . |
| 9 | I want it extended and that was fine . |
| 10 | It 's so annoying when they just come up to your window whether you want it cleaned or not they just clean it . |
| 11 | Give credit card details , say ‘ please debit my card accordingly ’ , state whether you want it posted or if youll collect it on the day , and finally give your voice number for them to call ‘ if there are any problems ’ . |
| 12 | Give credit card details , say ‘ please debit my card accordingly ’ , state whether you want it posted or if youll collect it on the day , and finally give your voice number for them to call ‘ if there are any problems ’ . |
| 13 | You hand it in before Easter if you want it marked and checked . |
| 14 | The laibon wants it understood that it has taken him some time to trace the trouble back to this incident . |
| 15 | It 's a bit on t'spongy side , so Aah wants it finished afore t'rains come . ’ |
| 16 | Before the last Test it seemed that Gooch would return home , annoyed at an article written about his South African connections by Lester Bird , the Deputy Prime Minister of Antigua , and tired of the hostile receptions he had been getting from press and public . |
| 17 | She says it slipped and set off the magic eye which set the baler off which crushed the bottom part of my leg causing me to lose the tissue and muscle from my ankle up to my shin . |
| 18 | Sun says it did and still is delivering the thing in volume — it 's just not enough to meet backorders . |
| 19 | And what were my wonderful talents , that I should have felt it mattered that they were ‘ wasted ’ ? |
| 20 | The door opened unexpectedly , and he would have fallen into the dark kitchen were it not for the fact that after four inches it jarred and stuck . |
| 21 | We have seen it regarded as something it could not be . |
| 22 | The Americans assumed it meant that Saddam was there . |
| 23 | It was not my little money and the confidence he erroneously imagined it engendered that came briefly to his rescue , but my blind passion for him . |
| 24 | but it 's I 'd rather see it bodged and some credibility left with district and city councils than er a hole that |
| 25 | He replied that on the facts stated it appeared that the testator wanted by trust to release Seius from all liability to that debt . |
| 26 | When Xerox first embarked on benchmarking it helped that it had a Japanese partner , Fuji Xerox , that it could look to for information about Japanese practices . |
| 27 | For years afterwards I only had to hear it played and in my mind I would be back on the muddy camp site , feeling again the excitement and fun and tragedy which filled the air . |
| 28 | He sees it formed and shaped by ‘ the yeoman farmer , the game-keeper , the potter , the tinker , the Nottingham coal-miner , and the Yorkshire factory hand ’ . |
| 29 | When the thaw came to Munding it came as rain , a wind-driven chilling rain that flooded the water-meadows and made the ford impassable . |
| 30 | I 'd like to thank and , I 'd like it minuted that I 'd like to thank , our Councillors and County Council Councillors because they are getting the reports in now . |