Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [coord] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , by May 1991 the Council of ( Foreign ) Ministers had still not agreed on the location of the Agency 's headquarters and it had not been able to start work . |
| 2 | Albert had said Mr Evans would be flaming mad when he heard about Mrs Gotobed 's Will and it seemed Albert was right . |
| 3 | and then on top of that he took the battery off Pat 's car and it fell over in the front so all the acid burnt the carpet ! |
| 4 | Versailles was a victor 's peace and it created a minefield of unresolved national problems in central Europe . |
| 5 | I tried to remember what my sister Mary had said about ignoring old wives ' tales and I tried to put them from my mind , but after that I often caught myself glancing at Granny 's picture and it seemed to me that her black eyes came alive and followed me round the room . |
| 6 | Before moving into it the family had lived with Sally 's grandparents and it had been very cramped . |
| 7 | The approach may have risked inhibiting the searcher 's behaviour but it offered continuity and some close-ups of individual steps of the search . |
| 8 | He buried the blade in the beast 's back and it jumped off her , snarling . |
| 9 | The fly transferred itself from Marian 's hand to Allen 's forehead but it did not disturb him and he slept . |
| 10 | In fact , mahogany had been known in England since Sir Walter Raleigh 's day but it took the French ban for it to become popular . |
| 11 | This was based on his father 's life and it did well enough to bring in five thousand pounds . |
| 12 | The mother had taken a house by the sea for a month for her daughter 's health and it turned out to be an Indian summer that year . |
| 13 | Kazakhstan had a very substantial Russian population 37.8 per cent of the total according to the 1989 census , almost as many as the Kazakhs themselves — but it was the home of the great majority of the Soviet Union 's Kazakhs and it had become accepted that the republic 's party and state leadership should be drawn from the national group after whom the republic was named . |
| 14 | She goes when she was born either he was chewing some chewing gum and it fell out and it went ins caught in your mum 's prinny and it glued it together See you tomorrow dudes . |
| 15 | She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say . |
| 16 | More plaster chunks exploded in the thing 's face and it staggered back again , lashing out . |
| 17 | This was the long haired girls ' compromise but it became very common early 70s style for girls & for boys . |
| 18 | The sun was still bright as we approached the Quigleys ' house but it did n't seem to have reached their road , which was the same as it ever was : dank and green and desperately quiet . |