Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] it [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to stop it going out he drew hard on it and exhaled billows of smoke into the car . |
| 2 | I almost got away with it until saw two letters |
| 3 | There was a marble fireplace opposite the door ; she walked slowly to it and ran her hand lightly over the back of one of the small , velvet-covered sofas that flanked it . |
| 4 | Dic , Our Daddy , walked away from it and ended up moving between his daughters — ‘ You never noticed him if he did n't speak ’ — putting a shilling on the horses , reading anything that came to hand , off on his benders , neglecting all his children and loved and welcomed by all his daughters , a kind of successful King Lear of the Welsh coalfields . |
| 5 | I glanced quickly at it but found it too difficult to understand , so I gave it back . |
| 6 | He considered leaving the rucksack on the train , but as it contained several of his favourite Fair Isle jumpers , and this was bonny Scotland after all , he thought better of it and shouldered the thing . |
| 7 | Yet when his campaign train reached McCarthy 's state of Wisconsin , where he planned to speak in defence of his old chief , he thought better of it and let that guy from the gutter stay on the train . |
| 8 | The bulldog twitched and sniffed the air , started to rise but thought better of it and flopped down with her head on her paws . |
| 9 | He applied for the first chair and then thought better of it and withdrew the application ; refused to apply for the second despite the supplications of Cambridge friends ; and finally applied for the third , the chair of primacy , the regius chair made vacant by the retirement of Charles Raven . |
| 10 | Boxer was about to remind him that time was getting on but then thought better of it and withdrew . |
| 11 | Twice his quarry threw him backward glances , and on the second occasion seemed to slow his pace , as if he might stop and attempt a truce , but then thought better of it and put on an extra turn of speed . |
| 12 | The referrals you , you missed the , the beginning out of the f referrals and just went straight into it and said have you got anybody I could contact |
| 13 | Li Yuan went across to it and reached up gently , stroking its neck , its dappled flank . |
| 14 | Pete looked hard at it and said , |
| 15 | Mr Pumblechook held his glass up to the light , smiled importantly at it and drank it . |
| 16 | He leaned close to it and peered out into the night , trying to see what was out there … |