Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] and it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down . |
| 2 | It was just what United needed and it rattled Leicester who in recent weeks have been the most successful team in the table . |
| 3 | I was very very pleased to see that a lot of you have tried to do your join up handwriting after a bit of practice we 'd had and it had come out really really nicely , well done . |
| 4 | Where it lay hidden and it proved kind . |
| 5 | She was more scratched than she had realised and it felt as if every small insect in the wood had landed in her hair . |
| 6 | He clearly thought he had won and it annoyed her . |
| 7 | He was amazed with the improvement I had made and it showed just what can be achieved with hard practice . |
| 8 | It was the first show of emotion she had made and it did more to make Wexford believe her story than all the documentary evidence she had furnished him with . |
| 9 | The lank look had disappeared and it did look lighter . |
| 10 | Must remember that phrase : he could see it had struck and it struck him too : he paused to give it the silent applause of a mute punctuation . |
| 11 | Seb shouted up to tell him what had happened and it took Dolly no more than a couple of minutes to hurry downstairs and throw open the cottage door . |
| 12 | The activity at the back of the car had ceased and it had fallen silent . |
| 13 | By the middle of 1984 , however , the company 's prediction had changed and it anticipated losing 50 per cent of its staff . |