Example sentences of "it [verb] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To break down such barriers , Bow Valley last year decided to re-engineer the way in which it processed and distributed information . |
| 2 | It was not my little money and the confidence he erroneously imagined it engendered that came briefly to his rescue , but my blind passion for him . |
| 3 | It checked and looked at her . |
| 4 | This way and that it rippled and shivered and then was still , a great sea . |
| 5 | The dragon 's tail whipped around as it passed and caught him a stinging blow across the forehead . |
| 6 | She touched this totem carefully , gaining confidence as it quivered and tautened . |
| 7 | Entering from under the pit of his arm it pierced and split his left shoulder joint , and his body swivelled slowly into an upright position , suspended on the horn . |
| 8 | when we us the last two and that one exploded on me I had this and it goes and exploded all over me and went over |
| 9 | Albert 's dingy sink had been scoured to its original yellow colour , and the window above it gleamed and winked with unaccustomed cleanliness . |
| 10 | It swirled and broke across her hand . |
| 11 | It swirled and howled , driving the sleet and snow towards him alone . |
| 12 | You pushed it away to the back recesses of your mind , but it crept and crawled about and then annoyingly broke through the surface again . |
| 13 | Armando Boetto , commanding officer of the 49 a Squadriglia , Blue 1 getting in the final burst before it disintegrated and fell into the sea . |
| 14 | As it moved it creaked and crackled , an old tree moving over crisp leaves . |
| 15 | He pushed at the gate and after a struggle it creaked and groaned open on its one rusty hinge . |
| 16 | It creaked and wobbled ominously under their weight . |
| 17 | It swooped and gusted , then hung impermeably , aspiring almost to a solid state . |
| 18 | ‘ This verse described a boy who had been trembling in front of the bathroom door , but at the same time this boy was swallowed up by the verse ; it surmounted and survived him . |
| 19 | It was an old strapiron stairway with a counterbalanced ladder which , assuming that somebody kept it oiled and tested , would drop to give one-way access to ground level . |
| 20 | A person affected by a forfeiture order may appeal to the Crown Court to have it withdrawn or delayed . |
| 21 | On what terms is it given and received ? |
| 22 | It used every means at its disposal : it argued and pressured the Versailles politicians ; it cheated in the plebiscites ; it engineered uprisings in Silesia and Wielkopolska ; it skirmished and then went to war with the Red Army for territory in the east . |
| 23 | In the next chapters we will go on to consider what homoeopathy is , how it arose and developed , and how it fits in with the scheme of health and disease outlined here . |
| 24 | It cracked and growled , and roared and howled , |
| 25 | In every other respect it was typical of its kind , and like most spines , it was short lived ; as it cooled , it cracked and started to break up , while the heaving of fresh pulses of lava in the dome below rapidly caused what was left to collapse . |
| 26 | It bounced and rolled between them and lay in the shadow of the chair . |
| 27 | And it bounced and bounced and bounced and I thought it was going on for ages but it did n't . |
| 28 | They mostly supplement the picture of the Soviet political system , how it operated in different circumstances and how it created and controlled its nuclear-energy network . |
| 29 | ‘ Me and my sister and my uncle — my sister , who 's a scientist , right ? — we were walking along and we saw this light go across the sky , then it stopped and made this complete square , then it was gone . ’ |
| 30 | I was within half a mile of Darrowby with the lights of the little town beginning to wink between the bare roadside branches when a car approached , went past , then I heard a squeal of brakes as it stopped and began to double back . |