Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] and 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 | If there is typesetting involved and it costs more than £8,000 over three years then you have probably completed the equation . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | De Levantiére has had her hair cut and it makes her look very sophisticated . |
| 12 | Eventually Vuk and Kopitar found a way to get the book published and it appeared in 1818 as a Serbian-Latin-German dictionary . |
| 13 | The colours were a bit faded and it looked like no one had rearranged or replaced the pictures in the case for some time . |
| 14 | They are not gaining financially but there is a cost involved and it falls to the NHS . |
| 15 | 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 . |