Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when it was n't working on the farm a transport on the back and a bag of straw to sit on and it became the family 's personal transport . |
| 2 | a lovely cottage , thatched roof cottage they lived in and it had an apple tree in the front , and a pear tree down the back , and all fruit trees . |
| 3 | Weaker areas are exposed dramatically when the market turns down as it did during 1992 . |
| 4 | Innumerable times a whole Christian community has broken down because it had sprung from a wish dream . |
| 5 | One rather exciting will home made will I hasten to add I dealt with last year , the lady of some who was not getting on with her husband and I think although I 'm not absolutely sure that the handwriting is that of her sister and we have this form filled in and it mentioned the bank or special savings account and it mentioned the premium bonds and it mentioned everything in the back bedroom and the linen in the linen and the linen cupboard because she 'd brought all this lot and it failed to appoint an executor and it failed to deal with the residuary estate it meant that technically there was a partial intestacy , as there was a partial intestacy the rules applied to that , first person to inherit ? |
| 6 | In case of doubt the court has to guess what meaning Parliament would have picked on if it had thought of the point . |
| 7 | The back row simply carried on where it left off against the Welsh with the indestructible McBride , Robinson and O'Hara repeatedly first to the breakdown . |
| 8 | Then when we finished and come out we er there was such a commotion in the street while we were in there taking aircraft spotting a , a German aircraft had come over and it had dropped a bomb on the gasworks had the plane , and we had known nothing about it . |
| 9 | The car engine roared again and the red car moved off but it did n't go far . |
| 10 | Gazzer 's head was wrenched up until it crashed into the back of the seat . |
| 11 | He said when Mr McKay 's sick note was sent in it was not picked up that it had anything to do with the accident . |
| 12 | Bookings of the ten-year package , fixed at 8.99 per cent for those borrowing up to 90 per cent , have been steady since its launch and have picked up since it featured in Money Mail recently . |
| 13 | I started to like it more when we loosened up and it got less serious . |
| 14 | The campaign petered out when it became obvious that the Government was not going to budge . |
| 15 | The track wound past one last stand of trees , then petered out as it reached a wide , open space at the top of the hill . |
| 16 | The attempt to put a stop to the moving earth stands out because it proved so tragic an aberration — a personal tragedy for Galileo and , in the long run , a tragedy for the Church , which overreached itself in securing a territory that would prove impossible to hold . |
| 17 | And really it has to be said and has to be said historically that I mean the army in a way was left with a job which politicians should have sorted out before it got to that stage . |
| 18 | He reckoned the machine had swallowed his card , cos , he said , he 'd got his money and then waited for it to come out but it had n't appeared . |
| 19 | To monitor the course of the project , that is , to study the implementation of the action project design , to find out whether it operated in the way envisaged , using the means planned , and to examine any problems which arose and any unanticipated consequences . |
| 20 | ‘ We have to find out where it went . ’ |
| 21 | He 'd always assumed that this was a piece of official terminology until one day he 'd asked what it meant , and found out that it stood for Another Fucking Drunk . |
| 22 | We certainly found out when it happened . |
| 23 | He added after the 7-6 6-4 4-6 6-4 shocker : ‘ I thought I had a chance to come back but it ended so fast . |
| 24 | Over the next four years , no work of any kind was carried out and it became increasingly apparent that senior officials had decided that The Grange should not be restored after all . |
| 25 | As I changed from listening to walking mode , I tried to work out whether it had feet or flippers or ran on rollers . |
| 26 | Last week AWSD let out that it had clasped hands with IBM 's once-proud flagship , its now-sullied mainframe operation Enterprise Systems , in setting up a co-funded unit to develop scalable mainframe-class multiprocessor RS/6000 RISC-based machines such as the SP1 Power Parallel system showed off last Tuesday . |
| 27 | Indeed , you get the feeling that there 'd be more than a few pro-war songs knocking about if it shifted the units . |
| 28 | Indeed , you get the feeling that there 'd be more than a few pro-war songs knocking about if it shifted the units . |
| 29 | He 'd looked round and it had seemed like just about the first place he 'd seen , and some part of him deep down had said : It 's got to be somewhere , why not here ? |
| 30 | It was at this point I think Batty came on and it made a f- of a difference . |