Example sentences of "it [be] [adv] [subord] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today I tried to get a whole tin every day , it 's just because it happened . |
| 2 | It was here when it started and the ward was empty and I 've watched it fill up , and now I 'm watching it empty again . |
| 3 | Ruth stared down at it and wondered why she had bought it and thought it was probably because it contrasted so sharply with what she had been through on this trip . |
| 4 | It was best when it felt like you were fighting gravity , fighting the pull of forces greater than yourselves . |
| 5 | It was exactly as it had been drawn in the family for generations . |
| 6 | As long as he was there , nothing was different , it was all as it had been when he came back on Tuesday , even the baby next door was moaning sleepily , and from the open window in the living-room he could hear a dog helping outside . |
| 7 | If his judgement rankled , it was only because it accorded perfectly with my own . |
| 8 | The white Gulfstream One executed a perfect landing but it was only when it taxied towards them that Whitlock saw the blue , red and white Zimbalan flag painted on the side of the fuselage with the words ‘ Air Zimbala ’ above it in black lettering . |
| 9 | The Irish tag was redeemed for a small reward and it was only when it arrived back in the Central Fisheries Board office , Dublin , that Sea Angling Officer , Peter Green , discovered that a new distance record had been set for their shark tag scheme . |