Example sentences of "[be] [adv] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh that 's Saturday then in n it did I say ? |
| 2 | For it was she who told herself that nothing was to be gained at this moment by recrimination , that Sir George 's land and influence at Stockton were still big assets ( though nowhere near worth the price at which they had been bought ) , and that a moping Sir George — a sackcloth-ashes flagellant — could be all it needed to bring the whole structure of confidence tumbling down . |
| 3 | The odd thing was , that did n't seem to be how it struck McWhirter . |
| 4 | It was about room-sized , and bright blue , which may be why it appealed to the Ixyphalians . |
| 5 | We 've lived such different lives , Shelley , but the moment we were together it did n't matter at all . |
| 6 | When we were away it did n't get watered on . |
| 7 | Nutty thought that was too much of a risk , but if they were out it seemed almost like doing them a favour , to patronise their pool , confirm that it was in working order . |
| 8 | ‘ It might be as well , ’ she said majestically , ‘ if we all said where we were when it happened . |
| 9 | But that 's 'ow it 'appened . |
| 10 | Well that weight , that weight it 's just it felt comfortable to wear . |
| 11 | What is more it had gold tassels , a feature only found in America , nowhere else in the Salvation Army world . |
| 12 | What is more it had long been accepted that only the pope could perform this . |
| 13 | I , things keep going through my head every time my head 's like it got this little what do you call it in , one of those erm like a live wire , just keeps going up and down and all the time . |
| 14 | Not if it 's like it looked before . |
| 15 | Up on Albert Hill in all likelihood its operations were on the banks of the eponymous river where the Cleveland Industrial Estate is now it had a massive and profitable operation covering 22 acres , employing 1,000 men and boys and working 90 furnaces . |
| 16 | ‘ Then why is n't it sold ? ’ |
| 17 | and is n't it hoped your buying , hope that you will look more beautiful . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes — is n't it wet ’ |
| 19 | Why is n't it shouted from the start so that everybody knows from the start who you are ? |
| 20 | This is how it came about . |
| 21 | That is how it came for Jesus ’ . |
| 22 | This is how it understood Resolution 242 . |
| 23 | What strikes him of a sudden , as he remembers this experience , is how it had been foreseen and marmoreally recorded by Virgil : as Virgil 's Aeneas left doomed Troy , carrying his household and ancestral gods , so Pound leaves the doomed Rome of fascist Italy , carrying in his haversack his gods — books by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and T. E. Hulme and Percy Wyndham Lewis . |
| 24 | but I saw him on the television last week , breakfast T V , not last week , week before , just before I got into work , and this woman on the television asking this stupid question , she said why do n't you put any opposition up in Parliament , and he hit the roof , but what the television did , they did n't switch off when he played bloody hell with 'em , excuse my French er President , but this is how it went , he could n't give a damn about you bloody lot , he kept the television on , it just showed his frustration . |
| 25 | I remember that song that you mentioned that you quoted at the beginning of the programme ‘ Look into the Irish , the Welsh and the Scot , you 'll find he 's a stinker as likely as not ’ is how it went on . |
| 26 | Perhaps that is how it began . |
| 27 | Yes , that is how it began . |
| 28 | Even the highly cosmopolitan and very trendy audiences of New York City did not know quite what to say about it ; a typical reaction was from May Okon , of the New York Sunday News who wrote : ‘ Jack Nicholson 's Drive , He Said is how it read on the marquee of the Third Avenue movie house . |
| 29 | There was also Mr Maddern , seated comfortably in the lounge-car as though in the drawing-room of his home-and after 45 trips across the Nullarbor to sell shoes in Kalgoorlie , I suppose that is how it felt . |
| 30 | that is how it seemed earlier this week , as people began making educated guesses about the outcome of the weekend 's referendum . |