Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And most people were desperate to get stuff in them days , you know they did n't want to wait till the following week so they tried to get it paid as best they could |
| 2 | He tried to get it marketed or patented but he never succeeded . |
| 3 | And Eddie Gilfoyle , who had been having an affair , tried to make it appear that she 'd committed suicide , it was alleged . |
| 4 | I 'd heard it said that th the development of this site has been in the development plan for twenty years |
| 5 | I 'd heard so much about the blinking cruise being in October and not in September that I 'd considered it done and June , fool that she is , chose not to challenge me outright because her tactic is to suffer in silence until her suffering spills from her like lava , devastating everyone in its path . |
| 6 | For the first couple of days he 'd used it to shave and wash but now he was finding it too icy . |
| 7 | I 'd slave my guts out on a case and think I 'd got it settled and a week later the woman would turn up in my office with the same dreary tale . |
| 8 | Day and night they worked on it , never letting up until they 'd got it finished and slung up down at Castle Crags — you must have passed it coming up — fit to be a fortress on its own , and the net went across the crags and across again to the other side . |
| 9 | And I 've , I er , I , we me we met a girl and she 'd had it done and it was lovely ! |
| 10 | and I 'm seeing the surgeon today and erm and I met somebody the other day who 'd had it done and his fingers were n't affected , you know , so I mean it 's just the luck of the draw I think . |
| 11 | But when he had finished eating he seemed to want it known that he was not of the company . |
| 12 | However , when we contacted Nikwax it appeared that durability is already being addressed with plans for a beefed-up outer with reinforced areas . |
| 13 | He had never seen that happen before , and decided to get it checked when he finally returned to England . |
| 14 | As soon as he confessed what he knew , fumbling the hideous admission as they came out of a rather good film about love that he had hardly been able to stand , she managed to make it seem that it was he , not she , who was the disturber of their lives . |
| 15 | th th the building went ahead and people every year or two sometimes twice in a year get flooded and they get sewages the the sewer with the volume of rain water they ca n't otherwise get away , but it brings to light what happens i i i in the ditches and , and the waterways that are spread across the direction of Airport and then out into the river when the tide is low because the switches close when the tide comes in and basically er and this is up to date information the information that I have is that the channels are the responsibility of the er you know responsibilities are either kept cleared or not clogged up and in connection with the , with the incident I , I did hear it said that in , in a place where once said it usually counts that possibly and more than the that the first flood was due because the drains and the ditches could n't take the volume of water after they were cleared and things have been pretty reasonable erm since that time , so it would seem to confirm what , what I have to say about keeping clear erm but it may be that authorities that were n't responsible had the job of cleaning them , I do n't know . |
| 16 | Colt had heard it said that after the war the country 's debt was 80 billion dollars . |
| 17 | Lately , Ockleton had heard it mentioned that he was on the staff of a Roman Catholic boarding school in the West Country . |
| 18 | He had seen it work while at Delta . |
| 19 | Perhaps she had seen it happen while in this automatic state . |
| 20 | Since February 1989 the Iranian President , Hashemi Ali Akbar Rafsanjani , had made it known that he would be working toward the release of all hostages in the Middle East . |
| 21 | During the course of the visit it was reported that US Secretary of State James Baker had made it known that the USA rejected recent suggestions that it should alter its deployment of nuclear weapons currently sited in South Korea as an inducement to North Korea to allow international inspection . |
| 22 | The terrorists had made it known that tourists would be a target , but the Foreign Office decided not to issue a general warning to British travellers . |
| 23 | Ronald Chalmers 's term of office as vice-chairman had been a year only , he said , and he had made it know that he did not want to be considered for an office-bearer 's position . |
| 24 | If I can just endorse what Stewart was saying the Parish Council talked to me as their consultant for a while and said look it seems that that with the with the actions of the er County Council writing to the Secretary of State to preempt the call-in procedures and the attitude of the District Council that this thing might well get local planning permission . |
| 25 | For years afterwards I only had to hear it played and in my mind I would be back on the muddy camp site , feeling again the excitement and fun and tragedy which filled the air . |
| 26 | She had wanted it preserved and she had chosen him as a means to this end . |
| 27 | Jacques Devraux continued to ride straight-backed in his saddle without acknowledging the grudging apology , and Paul was beginning to wish he had left it unsaid when his father spoke again in a softer tone . |
| 28 | She could n't imagine how she had allowed it to happen when everything within her head warned against it . |
| 29 | We , we actually lived in th the corner shop is right on the corner if you 've come up High street on the bus and your Co-op would be on that corner , your church and your Co-op 's on the corner , and just turns there and I only lived just down that street , so we never had to have it delivered because we just popped up er and my brother and I , I can so remember us going with our two big bags you know and we , you know how you do when families meet you know and he 'll say that 's the time , because dad , we never knew dad hit us and yet you 'd of thought he was , we , we were so scared it must have been his voice you know , that he erm that we was so scared that everything was all correct from the Co- op . |
| 30 | You felt he had to make it happen or die . ’ |