Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [conj] it [vb past] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lydia woke early the following morning and went out to wash in the stream , feeling it was brave and somewhat magnanimous of her after it had treated her so ill on the previous night . |
| 2 | ‘ Too often chief executives fail to recognise that they have embarked on a major project until they are well into it and it had run into difficulties . ’ |
| 3 | There was stuff piled up in it till it 'd spilled over on to the pathway . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , ’ Frau Nordern sat bolt upright and gave Marx her commanding glare which , however , did not have quite the same effect on him as it had done on the Duty Officer . |
| 5 | Katya went crazy over it before it had broken into leaf , just as she did with catmint . |
| 6 | I know cos we were breaking bits off it cos it had gone over the edge . |
| 7 | She 'd even been on the local TV news for it and it had done wonders for business . |
| 8 | Her reply was that she never cried and moreover had never talked about it since it had happened all those years ago . |
| 9 | At the end of the lawn there was a sundial ; they looked at it and it had got the time right . |