Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [coord] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | April 1992 saw the car completed and it passed its MOT with flying colours . |
| 2 | Bert knew that Mrs Tremayne wanted a fence repaired and it seemed an excellent opportunity to use his sudden free time by visiting Four Winds . |
| 3 | Elsewhere , FT-SE 's four-day record run halted and it closed at 2764.5 , down 27 . |
| 4 | After a normal steep climb-out , at about 120m the aircraft 's nose dropped and it dived into the ground killing all three crew and destroying the aircraft . |
| 5 | As the nose of the aircraft was raised and some right bank smoothly applied the aircraft was observed to flick suddenly to the right to ninety degrees of bank , whereupon the nose dropped and it descended steeply to the ground . |
| 6 | Between six and ten years ago , there was a hundred and eighty pits in this country , yes a hundred and eighty pits , now we have a handful left and it has been leaked that all thirty one pits will still be closed within twelve months , done quietly and by the back door ignoring procedures and over the years this is what has been done . |
| 7 | Between 1801 and 1851 the area 's population doubled and it doubled again from 1851 to 1921 , the year that saw the culmination of the first phase of the town 's development as a capitalist urban locality . |
| 8 | and then after that you 've got all the water left and it cleaned the sink as you as the pump pumped it out , you could go quickly with a brush round the sink and suds cleaned all the sink for you , or you could with your pail . |
| 9 | It is not quite the setting the founders of the game envisaged but it has something to be said for it . |
| 10 | one can have a use that does not come within any of the specified classes but the activity either comes within the use specified or it does not and there is no scope for the management of the problem in terms of facts and degree . |
| 11 | If there is typesetting involved and it costs more than £8,000 over three years then you have probably completed the equation . |
| 12 | His helmet was a bit dented and it had lost its feathers but otherwise he was all right — just a bit dizzy that 's all . |
| 13 | De Levantiére has had her hair cut and it makes her look very sophisticated . |
| 14 | we 'll show you now how to put on a pressure bandage for severe bleeding and then we 'll put the film on and you can see the whole lot again , okay , so just be in the room if you just push and push and push on the window and er the hand has gone through the window , right , and there 's no glass imbedded but it 's cut right across the palm and the reason that we show you this one is because the artery that feeds all these fingers comes and the thumb comes up in an arch like that okay , so the artery comes down , up in an arch across the palm of the hand , so the fingers and thumb all get a blood supply , so when you cut the palm of your hand there is a lot of blood pumping out , okay , so what 's the first thing I 'd tell her to do ? |
| 15 | Eventually Vuk and Kopitar found a way to get the book published and it appeared in 1818 as a Serbian-Latin-German dictionary . |
| 16 | The colours were a bit faded and it looked like no one had rearranged or replaced the pictures in the case for some time . |
| 17 | They are not gaining financially but there is a cost involved and it falls to the NHS . |
| 18 | She made some weak excuse when she telephoned to break the appointment , but she knew perfectly well that she was apprehensive about going out in case the weather changed and it began to rain . |