Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down . |
| 2 | I tried to swallow and it hurt . |
| 3 | I once garnered a useful titbit about Indian life from a documentary about the highest balloon flight in the world because I happened to see that it took place in the centre of the Indian sub-continent where the air can be particularly still . |
| 4 | I decided to leave before it got dark , first thanking the Padre and his two Breton friends for their very kind hospitality . |
| 5 | I feared to find that it had changed , as many had told me , beyond recognition . |
| 6 | And I could n't bear to be with women I did like because it reminded me forcibly that they did n't turn me on . ’ |
| 7 | He was amazed with the improvement I had made and it showed just what can be achieved with hard practice . |
| 8 | I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you . |
| 9 | I had assumed that it meant the characteristic of being alive , livingness , whatever it is that makes life life . |
| 10 | The argument became heated when I refused to agree that it did not matter if the document was authentic or not . |
| 11 | She tried to laugh but it cracked . |
| 12 | Eleanor , ’ she said again , as she began to realise that it made a lot of sense . |
| 13 | Clara was not at all sure what a gallery was , but from the conversation she managed to deduce that it dealt in paintings , and unlike the Tate and the National Gallery , dealt commercially . |
| 14 | She was more scratched than she had realised and it felt as if every small insect in the wood had landed in her hair . |
| 15 | It was the first show of emotion she had made and it did more to make Wexford believe her story than all the documentary evidence she had furnished him with . |
| 16 | Nor had she ever seen such a dress on anyone over the age of thirty , but seeing it , she had to admit that it did not even look bizarre : it was a pale purple smock , waistless and bustless , with long , much-buttoned sleeves , and yet it managed to give only the faintest , most delicate air of Bohemia . |
| 17 | However , once the licence to sink an exploratory well was awarded to the Hamilton Oil Company , we tried to ensure that it honoured the conditions attached to the licence , prepared an adequate oil spill contingency plan and designed an operational programme which minimised the risks to the environment . |
| 18 | We should have known we could n't prolong it once we 'd agreed that it had to end . ’ |
| 19 | I was very very pleased to see that a lot of you have tried to do your join up handwriting after a bit of practice we 'd had and it had come out really really nicely , well done . |
| 20 | We had to admit that it looked rather splendid . |
| 21 | They went begging and it needed an excellent save from goalkeeper Roberts to deny Saunders again in the 76th minute . |
| 22 | ‘ I thought it was you leaving me , ’ she said , making a joke of it , to comfort him , and he tried to laugh but it turned into a sob in his throat . |
| 23 | He 'd hoped that it meant no more than that she was growing up and had become aware of herself as a young woman ; that as a consequence it was not quite the done thing for her to rush across a room and hug him like a kid sister , or trip him up in the haybarn and fling herself on top of him like a puppy spoiling for a game . |
| 24 | This had been the story that he 'd used when it had n't seemed so serious , and it was the story that he was sticking with now . |
| 25 | It was the picture he loved to give and it concealed all that he really was . |
| 26 | It started to rain as it grew dark outside . |
| 27 | Where it lay hidden and it proved kind . |
| 28 | ‘ We are just at a point if we have anything to say , we really could not , ’ the company told Reuter , but it did say that it had hired Morgan Stanley & Co as its ‘ financial consultant , ’ along with Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette , but declined to say whether the investment banks are underwriters for a stock offering . |
| 29 | Must remember that phrase : he could see it had struck and it struck him too : he paused to give it the silent applause of a mute punctuation . |
| 30 | " It had killed before it met us , " said Blackberry with a shudder . |