Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [verb] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He waited , out of long experience with dominant characters , until a natural break occurred and used it to ask for some background , starting with how long the Minister had known Miss Morgan . |
| 2 | It makes the British attitude to planemaking — make it commercial or defence oriented and make it pay PDQ — look plain shortsighted and stupid . |
| 3 | Was Cyril Burt as responsible for the development as he claimed or does it derive more from distinct European or American traditions ? |
| 4 | I had a visitors ' visa , renewed annually but I simply forgot and let it go for two months . |
| 5 | J. decided he wanted a photograph of me , and although I did tease him a bit about this — what did he want a photograph of me for when I was there in front of him most of the time ? — at his insistence I finally went and had it done . |
| 6 | anyway she went and had it done and erm she was upset after she had it done like it must of hurt you know she was crying |
| 7 | Yeah I like to , I like to have a go at different things I mean the the the other the other lunchtime we had you know he came in at lunchtime and er Shirley had gone somewhere Ann and er I 'll have the chicken kiev for me please so so I went and did it did you cook that for him ? |
| 8 | When she laughed and giggled it stretched from ear to ear , but half an hour after leaving her you found yourself remembering Harvey 's claim that she was the most beautiful girl in the world . |
| 9 | When it gurgled and died it left a silence deeper than before . |
| 10 | The room tensed , but George shrugged and let it go past , perhaps admitting that was a ball he could n't reach . |
| 11 | She put everything into it , and Ivy simply lopped off everything she said and left it lying there , dead . |
| 12 | The registers give the impression — in itself plausible — that Henry VII told his Council what he wanted and left it to work out the details . |
| 13 | Tom stopped and put his finger to his lips and they stood and watched it hopping in and out among the changing leaves . |
| 14 | I made a great bonfire of it and stood and watched it burn until every trace of him was wiped off the face of the earth . ’ |
| 15 | He sat and watched it fall into folds across his knee and the dense depth of its scarlet pile was more delightful than wine or the blood from roasting beef . |