Example sentences of "it [vb past] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Got it got it got it got it . |
| 2 | Got it got it got it got it . |
| 3 | When it realized it did n't have anythi , it 's mates around him . |
| 4 | I think for me I love erm er er er I love a challenge , and er I suspect the fact that before I went into it people said it was erm something which was erm absolutely impossible er er and that the their was no way that one could make a go of it erm made it made it made it perhaps all the more challenging to try to prove them wrong . |
| 5 | oh it made it made a nice change . |
| 6 | ‘ It made it seem as if it was going to be superficial . |
| 7 | ‘ But with Barney being so ill , and with Cara being so upset , it made it seem awful that I would n't spend an hour of my life doing this one big thing for her . ’ |
| 8 | And erm for summer then we put some here and some seaweed and it made it look kind of queer like but Mr Davis our art teacher just thought it would make it look more interesting . |
| 9 | It made it look like golden silk , and she had the urge to run her hands over it to find out . |
| 10 | It was her own phrase , but somehow the way he said it made it sound as if he kept a harem . |
| 11 | The way he put it made it sound like an order . |
| 12 | I put a good bit on there and soaked it let it soak in . |
| 13 | I almost caused an accident coming back from Bedford yesterday , there 's somebody in an X R three i right up my arse so I just coming onto the motorway , the M four to Bracknell and erm comes right up my arse and I had to come out cos there was this car coming on you know , from further up the the lane and it was coming on and I was already on , so I overtook it let it did to let it come out you know ? |
| 14 | As it moved it creaked and crackled , an old tree moving over crisp leaves . |
| 15 | Every time it moved it froze , one paw outstretched , not quite touching the ground . |
| 16 | THE US Secretary of State , James Baker , hinted yesterday that the US withheld military support for Tuesday 's failed coup in Panama because it believed it had little chance of success . |
| 17 | One of the key determinants of US policy towards Iraq last August was that it believed it has the military forces sufficient to evict Iraq from Kuwait . |
| 18 | It looked awful at first — so bad it was wonderful — but as it dried it revealed an incredible gradient of colour . ’ |
| 19 | Now that it was happening it seemed it had been inevitable from the start . |
| 20 | But it happened it kept going on happen . |
| 21 | and when it arrived it turned out to be a donation from the Lord Mayor 's charity . |
| 22 | The new company , not surprisingly , will receive no funding from IBM ; the old company failed because it could n't raise the $60m it reckoned it needed to bring the SS-1 to market . |
| 23 | Academic English was a recent invention , largely of the inter-war years ; and even where it existed it had commonly stopped with the early nineteenth century . |
| 24 | A few minutes later it emerged and flew off and then when it returned it looked at the wall and saw the marks and went inside . |
| 25 | Erm it touched it touched twenty grand last year . |
| 26 | Something might be true although at the same time harmful and dangerous in the highest degree ; indeed it could pertain to the fundamental nature of existence that a complete knowledge of it might destroy one — so that the strength of a spirit could be measured by how much ‘ truth ’ it could take , more clearly , to what degree it needed it attenuated , veiled , sweetened , blunted and falsified . |
| 27 | It hit it hit Ian Stringfellow last week and caused Nicky Platten now to pull out at the last minute last night . |
| 28 | Not only did it meet the airline 's losses without the latter suffering any real penalty , but it enabled it to pursue its plans to take a 6 billion franc ( 37.5 per cent ) shareholding in the Belgian state-owned carrier Sabena , which was in an equally parlous financial state . |
| 29 | After every census , the bureau conducts its own internal estimate of how many people it missed : in 1980 it thought it had missed 1.4% of the population , including 5–6% of blacks ( and perhaps as many as 18% of black males ) . |
| 30 | All in all , the people 's party may not have played quite the ace it thought it had when it chose Smith as its leader . |