Example sentences of "the [noun] [coord] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and it worked , and it got over to Australia , it got unpacked and it still worked when it got to Australia , and it went on the stand and it stood on the stand for a week or however long it was . |
| 2 | ‘ The county council has to make up the remainder but it has already limited the amount it intends to spend . ’ |
| 3 | If there was a swell on the east side where the the grating but there was also a gully landing which you get into the gully but it had to be a very fine day to get into the gully and there was a derrick there er you could a crane there that you could take everything out of the boat but it had to be a very fine day to get into the gully . |
| 4 | ‘ We 're delighted to get the award but it came as quite a surprise , ’ said business director . |
| 5 | There was a lot of straw in the mattress and it had been filled recently so that it was pleasantly responsive . |
| 6 | Immediate attempts were made to resuscitate her ; at one stage some electrical activity was restored to the heart but it proved of no avail . |
| 7 | Mr Harper claims he does not find his long day tiring : ‘ If it comes from the heart and it comes with divine strength it 's easy . |
| 8 | She reached to take the heart and it crumbled , fell to bits . |
| 9 | We was there till six o'clock in the afternoon and it took us from the er ten o'clock in the morning , say about ten when we got there , it took us from ten till six to fire five rounds of ammunition because there was that many there and you had to wait your turn . |
| 10 | I needed the money and it sounded O.K. But sitting around for hours at a stretch without a word from anybody I was able to do a lot of thinking . ’ |
| 11 | But personal growth is also shown here as the character of Pip begins to change even before he was given the money and it continues to change after all the money is gone . |
| 12 | We made the mistake of not putting in the trees before the hedges and it 's taken them seven or eight years to get going because it 's so exposed . |
| 13 | This is intended to reflect her costs as ‘ carer ’ of the child(ren) but it seems probable that many people will interpret it as being money for her maintenance . |
| 14 | Marketing manager Rob Lucas said : ‘ We are fortunate that everyone knows the brand and it has always been popular , particularly with children . ’ |
| 15 | Nihilist is the case but it risks confusion between Dostoevsky and Turgenev who may not have invented the word but certainly gave it very wide currency . |
| 16 | Classical elasticity assumes this to be the case and it has been very successful with continuous media . |
| 17 | It seems necessary to remind de Man ( who claims that " deconstruction is not something that we have added to the text but it constituted it in the first place " ) of Todorov 's statement that de Man himself quotes in Blindness and Insight : |
| 18 | Melanie wondered if she would have to take a tray to the basement but it seemed they had their own gas ring down there and brewed up continually for themselves . |
| 19 | It had been David 's most miserable year on the field and it had a devastating effect on his private life . ’ |
| 20 | This had little to do with the computer but it did spur us into action . |
| 21 | Sorry for whinging , but when I get onto the computer and it says ‘ 8 new messages ’ I think Oh goody ! |
| 22 | If anything happened to the computer and it proved impossible to get at the data inside , you could go to your back-up diskettes and simply copy the data back into the computer when it had been repaired , or replaced , or put it onto another computer . |
| 23 | But still the habit of flying north for the summer persisted among the birds and it has remained to this day , even though the journey is no longer a few miles , but several hundred . |
| 24 | That 's the difference between Knightshayes and some of the lovely old seventeenth-century gardens where you have a beautiful garden with no connection with the outside ; is suits the houses but it does n't blend . ’ |
| 25 | we 've got , is at the back of the house right , and then it goes up there , then that is the houses and it goes down to the sewer in the road , so er |
| 26 | She flicked a pink anemone at him through the hatch and it hit his cheek so that he turned round and winked at her . |
| 27 | Tbilisi have 48 hours to appeal the decision but it looks as if Linfield are back in the competition — and suddenly £100,000 better off courtesy of UEFA payments and television rights . |
| 28 | He was saved by the fact that only the wings of the glider struck the cable but it led to more than 250 households having their electricity supplies cut off . |
| 29 | the door is locked from the inside , but you just got to pull the cable and it overrides the lock dun n it ? |
| 30 | ‘ There was a review of Bolger in the Times and it said that although the city of culture had n't been a success the Dublin Theatre Festival was , ’ he says . |