Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was beginning to swell and there were signs of bruising , but she could move her fingers , although it hurt when she tried to bend her wrist . |
| 2 | It is not obvious why the Court was concerned with the possible application of Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 , s.133 to the activation of the suspended sentence in this case ( although it concluded that it did not apply in any event ) . |
| 3 | The strange and difficult was becoming second nature in the way that it had when I 'd learned to fly . |
| 4 | You know , it 's er it 's got the bad publicity that it had and it 's still got it , well I do n't think it has to be . |
| 5 | She squeezed her eyes shut and lowered her head , hiding behind her curtain of auburn curls , battling with the tears , battling with the fact that it mattered because she had made a mistake again . |
| 6 | Before another reading of this poem on the same visit , he announced that it began where he had begun , and that it ended where he and his wife hoped to end — in the parish church of a Somerset village ; he could see now the pattern of his life completed . |
| 7 | It was furnished with an ancient iron bedstead and a wooden table so decrepit that it collapsed as I walked past it . |
| 8 | ‘ Let us say , ’ she replied quietly , ‘ that it happened as you described . |
| 9 | Our escorting Wellington was delayed due to phenomenal sandstorms in the Delta area , and it was only on 18 March that it arrived and we set off for Benina to refuel before the sea leg to Malta . |
| 10 | The next time you start your machine it will still show the lag or lead that it did before you tried to correct it . |
| 11 | The absurd rent lured her , it made her hundred pounds look less pathetic than it had when she checked into Mrs Archer 's hotel . |
| 12 | This was more difficult than it sounded since he did not keep either regular or normal hours . |
| 13 | ‘ The Michelangelo computer virus that received worldwide attention last year is expected to cause even fewer problems this Saturday than it did when it struck last year , a team of IBM researchers said ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ So it befell that he read Goethe 's The Sorrows of Young Werther and discovered the nature of love . |
| 15 | It concerned a contract to provide a made-to-measure set of teeth and it arose because they did not fit . |
| 16 | I was one of her daisies and it meant that we had all these hats on , which were very unattractive — a rubber hat and on top was the daisy , so when you swam around and the people looked down at you , they just saw these daisies . |
| 17 | And it meant that I had free access to the whole of the so much so , I had a key to the bottom of entry in er access to the firm and I could get in when I liked . |
| 18 | Yes I think that over the course of our married life we had a number of moves for various reasons , generally to improve the accommodation , erm as standard of life increased so the desire to have a better house to live in or rather in those days a house was out of the question , we generally had rooms in a house , erm , they , the flat for instance that we were bombed out from was a basement flat , erm according to the estate agents it was a garden flat , erm and it meant that you had access to the front garden and the back garden , but as for being a garden flat it was below the level of the garden in the front and at the back it was on the level with the erm green grass at the back of the house , it was also along side of the trolley bus depot , so there it was considerably noisy , nevertheless it was a self contained flat , the first one we 'd had , no the second one we 'd had and we were perfectly happy there although of course it did have minor difficulties , the fact that you used the front door with people who had flats on the other remaining three floors , but nevertheless it did involve you in a certain amount of community living , you were aware of your neighbours , you had to be very conscious of them and they were very conscious of you . |
| 19 | Anyway , I just held her , and it felt like she 'd broken , could n't take any more , then she kissed me . |
| 20 | For example , it said I had a daughter called Samantha ( which is not true ) , and it said that I had a Citroen car ( which I do n't — I drive a Renault ) and that I spent three years at the Royal College of Art painting ten-inch red stripes on a piece of canvas and then it quoted me and it said : ' ’ I do n't know why we did it , ’ says Terry . |
| 21 | I was reading my instructions though and it said before you start pressing knobs |
| 22 | Went into the supermarket and it said and it said pour , not it said erm pour le animal , well any fool would have thought that was poor the animals , and Carol said that looks nice , we 'll , we 'll have a pile of that ! |
| 23 | In 1331 he went to Amiens to do liege homage to Philip for Gascony , and it seemed that he had tacitly abandoned his claim . |
| 24 | He tried whether he had a voice in the dream , and it seemed that he had , though a curiously meagre one , for she leaned still closer to hear what he wanted , inclining her earnest head to bring a small , close-set ear almost within touch of his lips . |
| 25 | And I rung for an ambulance and it came and we took her up and sat with her , and they kept her in for four days . |
| 26 | It glared and it floated and it flew like the Devil . |
| 27 | and I said then on the , on the Saturday his leg , his wound , he come out of intensive care on the Wednesday and on the Saturday his , his dressing had n't been changed on his leg and it reeked and I said can we actually please have a clean dressing for my dad 's leg , even if I 've got to put the bugger on myself , that was at quarter past eight |
| 28 | And it stopped when it hit something . |
| 29 | My voice was high and it shook and I did n't convince even myself . |
| 30 | The dried blood from my nose was smeared all over the front of my mouth and it cracked when I tried to move my lips . |