Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [coord] it [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 But someone discovered in China that you could put them together and it went off with a bang .
2 I suppose they 're very good and all in white and very ‘ county ’ like those awful people you got to ask me over and it turned out they were n't expecting me at all and there were four of them anyway .
3 Well I 'd never seen them , I do n't say it turned you on but it made you
4 ‘ They appreciated the peace it gave them from the ones who wound them up and it gave us peace .
5 But the existence of these functions does not mean that the towns depended on them exclusively and it did not prevent them from acquiring others from the normal expected range .
6 He loved her deeply and it hurt him badly when he learned the truth about her .
7 He had blushed at the thought and turned quickly away , but as time passed he found that he desperately wanted to share his secret with her ; until then he 'd always confided in her unhesitatingly and it seemed strange that something should now make him hold back .
8 Well the hose landed on him alright but it landed on his parcel and it the whole thing fell out on the road .
9 I 'd recorded some background music for her too and it did n't sound as if she 'd added to her collection .
10 He had been persuaded to have them there and it did n't please him to have journalists foisted off on him .
11 yeah , the , that 's the awful part I tried one of them with a big bit here and I tried it on and it looked like a tit on a pimple , I said god what am I gon na do ?
12 So I threw the I put some thirty , thirty six on my hand , I put it on and it went hard
13 I tried it on and it fitted well enough .
14 At last , wonder of wonders it was finished for the second time , I tried it on and it drowned me .
15 You could feel the crowd willing it in but it did n't make it and I was beginning to feel it was slipping away , and especially when we could only make par at the 17th .
16 Apparently during the First World War some professor erm was using a bunsen burner and he burned himself quite badly and by him he just happ he just happened to have some lavender oil essential and for the nearest thing he put his hand in there and apparently it was supposed to have calmed it down and it healed very quickly .
17 He managed to knock it away and it exploded without injuring him .
18 Waddell says a blanket was thrown over the old man and several times the old man knocked it off and it had to be replaced .
19 ‘ I pulled it off and it bled . ’
20 Partridge had got all angry and upset soon too because as he was struggling with Steven a magazine fell out of his trousers on to the towpath of the canal and the other men had picked it up and it had been a spanking magazine so all the other men who were n't laughing and shouting already started teasing partridge ; Partridge started trying to wrestle Steven to the ground but Steven had got free and clouted the other man with the shovel , which was still bloody from hacking the cat to bits , and after that , with the magazine coming apart as the other men grabbed at it and Partridge rolling about dazed on the towpath in the cat 's blood and almost falling into the canal , Dan Ashton had said soberly that enough was enough and they 'd better go and see Mr Smith the supervisor because they just could n't go on like this .
21 cos the egg white would have fluffed it up and it 'd more
22 He kicked out at it viciously and it rolled , screeching and spitting into the roadway .
23 It claimed Elton John was hooked on eating food and spitting it out and it claimed he told guests at a Los Angeles party , I 'm on the do n't swallow and get thin diet .
24 and then and then I s and then in me head I did erm seven take away ten and then I worked it out and it turned out to be three .
25 Blackberry thrust at it angrily and it flew up , buzzing , into the sunshine .
26 Well it was off before and , and he put it back and it seemed to be alright did n't it Joan ?
27 and I had it on right and he came in right , and I was going , he was going , a long conversation all about little Harmony and everything and really going onto it , and I went to play it back and it had n't recorded anything .
28 There were n't , we did it singly and it made more people did n't it ?
29 He would do it everywhere and it drove me insane .
30 I went to Croke Park and I had not the slightest interest in Protestantism but I did come from a Fermanagh family where you did live cheek by jowl with republicanism so I had imbibed it undoubtedly and it resurfaced , the inherited knowledge of the heart of the controversy in Ulster .
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