Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [coord] it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down .
2 There is , however , a difference between imposing liability where the company has collapsed and it emerges that a director has been in total dereliction of duty or something close to it , and using the law to promote managerial dynamism .
3 It has impressed but it has to have the right tools if it is going to provide the safety that councillor referred to and the saving of life which was referred to by councillor .
4 If on the other hand fertilisation of the egg has occurred and it becomes successfully implanted in the lining of the womb , levels of Progesterone will continue to increase throughout the pregnancy .
5 By chance a list of dresses taken by Mme Moulton to Compiègne has survived and it gives a very good idea of what was expected to be worn .
6 It was just what United needed and it rattled Leicester who in recent weeks have been the most successful team in the table .
7 I was very very pleased to see that a lot of you have tried to do your join up handwriting after a bit of practice we 'd had and it had come out really really nicely , well done .
8 Yeah I do Stefan , I mean i it 's very vigorous int it , when it gets established and it grows very upright as well and of course it 's deciduous erm some people call it a shrub , some people call it a tree but I , I will think that er Mrs is doing the right thing by cutting it back , especially if it 's a small garden , it would make a better bush in the garden I think if she does that and the these little white flowers really in are nice are n't they ?
9 After what seemed like ages we popped out of the cloud and confirmed our dead-reckoned position as overhead the airfield of Vila Real , where we would have landed but it had no avgas .
10 He 's wide on the right , holding it up , looking for support , two in the middle , looks for , goes for it ca n't quite get the contact he would have wanted and it runs back to in what must be a very edgy Blackburn penalty area at the moment .
11 Where it lay hidden and it proved kind .
12 She was more scratched than she had realised and it felt as if every small insect in the wood had landed in her hair .
13 More than half thought the school had explained but it seemed to be in the past , a one-off opportunity and not an on-going process .
14 He clearly thought he had won and it annoyed her .
15 I do n't need to erm elaborate much more Okay , the give it , give it a mechanical structure , well that does n't necessarily apply to some of the things that we 've done but it does to other parts and if you 're gon na discuss somebody 's model , think about it in the real world .
16 He was amazed with the improvement I had made and it showed just what can be achieved with hard practice .
17 It was the first show of emotion she had made and it did more to make Wexford believe her story than all the documentary evidence she had furnished him with .
18 turn the crane round one way then the other and he got on the same lever but today they got , cos they got big lovely cranes where they stand there with four levers , four controls they 've got and it goes up and down .
19 Caroline had disappeared but it had been shown that it was nothing to do with him .
20 The lank look had disappeared and it did look lighter .
21 Must remember that phrase : he could see it had struck and it struck him too : he paused to give it the silent applause of a mute punctuation .
22 Seb shouted up to tell him what had happened and it took Dolly no more than a couple of minutes to hurry downstairs and throw open the cottage door .
23 The activity at the back of the car had ceased and it had fallen silent .
24 ‘ I 've lost count of the hundreds of miles I 've covered and it has been pretty hectic .
25 By this time the rain had begun but it did n't dampen their enthusiasm one bit .
26 By the middle of 1984 , however , the company 's prediction had changed and it anticipated losing 50 per cent of its staff .
27 Hill and Whitlow taking a few chances in their own half and finally Whitlow 's dispossessed and it comes to Collimore .
28 Well , I tried to turn it into a joke — not a very good one , I admit — but I said something about that party game called consequences , you know where everyone writes down innocent things that get strung together because nobody knows what the others have written and it gets all mixed up so you get a silly story with a stupid ending .
29 In recent years , however , the world sugar prices have slumped and it has become one of the poorest areas in the Philippines .
30 He 's got and it turns into one of those little you know turtles kids like .
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