Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [coord] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Portsmouth defence creaked but it never cracked as Andy Mutch and Sean Taylor tried to get a goal . |
| 2 | It was in 1984 , when Kylie was still only 16 , that her next big break came and it was again Alan Hardy , the man who had cast her in The Sullivans three years before , who was involved . |
| 3 | Its yellow eyes were looking at me ; its mouth opened and it made strange sounds at me . |
| 4 | Sefton 's condition deteriorated and it was agreed he should be put down . |
| 5 | No wind blew but it was deathly still and bitterly cold . |
| 6 | The wind blew and it rained very heavily . |
| 7 | But as Ryan Cosgrove handed over the oblong box , a red light flashed and it started ticking . |
| 8 | Her fingers running through the ruff of fur around the cat 's neck tightened as Jehan spoke , and the cat yowled and it bit playfully at her hand . |
| 9 | Ah , winter came and it rain much colder , snow fell and covered everything Pink |
| 10 | The error was spotted after work began and it cost £70,000 to raise the bridge . |
| 11 | I was about to contact the American lawyer acting for the defendants , Mr William Rogers ( later to become famous as Secretary of State under Nixon ) , when the telephone rang and it was the New York Times enquiring when I was going to meet him . |
| 12 | Erm I was last night because I was all ready to come and the telephone rang and it was one of those |
| 13 | Its ceiling sloped and it held a narrow bed with a small table beside it ; no space for anything else . |
| 14 | ‘ There are 1,001 possibilities as to why this accident happened and it would be pure speculation to say at this stage what could have caused it . |
| 15 | I had not gone far before the rain started and it soon became a sluicing downpour that never abated all day . |
| 16 | Customs officers substituted the drugs with another substance as the consignment arrived and it continued to Scott 's house where he was arrested . |
| 17 | Gus Dudgeon : ‘ I was sitting back in my office and the internal phone rang and it was Tony Visconti , whose office was literally just down the hall . |
| 18 | And then the phone rang and it was Alexandra . |
| 19 | And Bobby picked up the phone when the phone rang and it was her and she sai erm Bob said yes ? |
| 20 | I was in the car park and er , I got back into the car and , with Mrs , the phone rang and it was erm Mr , he was going out at half past three . |
| 21 | It struggled on as an ‘ underfinanced , deradicalized hybrid ’ , in Curran and Seaton 's phrase ( 1988 , p. 99 ) , until King 's pledge expired and it was sold to Rupert Murdoch in 1969 . |
| 22 | I do n't know when this story started but it certainly happened a long time ago . |
| 23 | The reason the Americans got it wrong was they were putting more faith into blood tests to see if the drug worked and it turns out that those blood tests can not tell you whether it works or not . |
| 24 | He said he would be happy to quit next week ‘ if the right offer came and it was right for the club ’ . |
| 25 | The burial of Jesus had to be completed by 6.00 pm since this is when the Sabbath began and it was forbidden to bury on the Sabbath . |
| 26 | There was nearly a mile of dense woodland at this point before the swampy ground began and it was over an hour before Crane returned saying that no-one had passed on that side . |
| 27 | But the shop , the store manager knew and it was paid for . |
| 28 | It was a late abortion it did n't work straight away , it m probably the baby died but it did n't come away from her you see and er , it was a shame , but she oh she was called a very bad woman you know because her husband was fighting for his country and and er you know . |
| 29 | It was not until Rewald 's 1944 publication , Degas , Works in Sculpture , that a fully illustrated catalogue appeared and it was another thirty years before Charles Millard 's The Sculpture of Edgar Degas attempted to set the work in a wider context . |
| 30 | Were you there when you , ee , you talking about that , there were two mistakes on that one er er doorbell went and it was n't telephone , it should have been the telephone ! |