Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] it [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the family he rarely used it except on Sundays when he spent the afternoon and evening with an old chap who used to work for the firm and now lives in sheltered accommodation at Carbis Bay . |
| 2 | Although the lack of signposts made it difficult to locate the road to Rennes-le-Chateau , I eventually found it and trudged the 4.7km to the village . |
| 3 | Erm er and it 's the way that we do it that 's made it made it very comfortable to go into something , like most of the people that come to see us and work with us , they 've never sold never been involved in advertising let alone sold it because erm |
| 4 | And it more or less made it that we 'd got to go back for the ten and thruppence . |
| 5 | Only got it that there 's news . |
| 6 | Mind you , I only got it because he died intestate and me mother does n't care . |
| 7 | I only got it cos we were going to run this D T P package |
| 8 | I only got it cos it looked nice . |
| 9 | and so divided it that the remainder went to the husband to take up the one thousand one hundred and sixty five . |
| 10 | The 7th Earl decided in the early part of the twentieth century to install in the two rooms the panelling and so designed it that there were recesses for pictures . |
| 11 | Well not necessarily tried it but you 're aware that they exist . |
| 12 | We not merely retained it but expanded it , and it has fully justified our confidence . |
| 13 | I only mentioned it when I was walking the dogs . |
| 14 | I only mentioned it because I want you to know that I realise the problems we 're facing — and that I 've got plans to put us back on our feet . |
| 15 | Anything which weakened this family unit was impermissible , and nothing more obviously weakened it than uncontrolled physical passion , which introduced ‘ unsuitable ’ ( i.e. economically undesirable ) suitors and brides , split husbands from wives , and wasted common resources . |
| 16 | His coat and waistcoat swiftly followed it and his fingers ripped away the neckcloth about his throat , heedless of the ruin they effected . |
| 17 | and I ai n't kidding , I so enjoyed it and I said to Joe I would n't mind that for Christmas dinner I really enjoyed that . |
| 18 | People have been scrambling up Cust 's Gully for over 100 years , and in dry conditions it should pose no problems — although it is not particularly attractive and I only included it because it was such a traditional route . |
| 19 | I only only saw it cos it , it 's |
| 20 | He punched a volley which almost drove Chang into the court surrounds , yet the American not only reached it but responded at full stretch with a perfect lob ; quick-witted as well as fleet-footed play . |
| 21 | Manufacturers of dynamite and the other nitro-organics plied their trade as placidly as ever ; manufacturers of ammonium nitrate fertiliser merely desensitised it and countered its hygroscopicity with kaolin or kieselguhr instead of wax . |
| 22 | I think I basically saw it as something that had to be done for the authority and not as something that was going to lead to any change . |
| 23 | Oh yeah , yeah , where the furniture was concerned yeah , we only liked it if people came in and said oh my god what have you done now , you know . |
| 24 | But he has told a court he only did it because house prices were so high and new players needed a lump sum payment to help them move . |
| 25 | It does little for the already low standing of politicians in the public esteem for Major to say effectively that they did not have plans to raise taxes then and they only did it because it was necessary . |
| 26 | I only did it cos it was such a long number to put in all the |
| 27 | No but he obviously did it when you were n't there cos that was the bet . |
| 28 | I only remembered it when I leaned forward or when I tried to sleep at night . |
| 29 | What is indisputable is that as an undergraduate and then as a research worker for Child Poverty Action Group , far from regarding such evidence as ‘ defeatist talk ’ you not only accepted it but added to it . |
| 30 | ‘ I only said it because I was jealous of Jenny and did n't understand why . ’ |