Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They acted out the robbery in full so that when it came to describing it to everyone , to police , and to insurance investigators , they would be able to describe it in perfect detail . ’ |
| 2 | Ten minutes afterwards she had filled every available space on the card with news of her journey and her impressions of beautiful Mariánské Láznë , so that when it came to penning a signature there was barely any room for her own name , let alone room to add Cara 's . |
| 3 | He was like an old car that had been around in the neighbourhood for a long time , loaned out among your friends , used and passed on , so that when it got to you in your time , you knew what you were getting . |
| 4 | My pair were purple and black , so that when it rained they dyed my socks , which did not impress my mother at all . |
| 5 | After a while it became part of the nomes ' world , so that when it stopped the silence came as a shock . |
| 6 | ‘ No , ’ she mumbled , sagging suddenly , so that if it had n't have been for his firm grip she probably would have sunk to the ground , ‘ I did n't think . |
| 7 | So that if it happened that I died they would be able to make a campaign issue of it . |
| 8 | He kept on firing until he could see each individual rope on the net , then hauled the nose up and vaulted the balloon , realizing as he did so that if it caught fire now he would be fried . |
| 9 | remember ours , it would not be flat smells of cat but not only that if it weed on me carpet as much as I love it I might get a |
| 10 | After he recovered , he took great care of his health , finding every ray of sunshine to sit in and when it rained , still resolutely taking the air , under the porch . |
| 11 | and you 'd fit them together but if it did n't fit you 'd have to do something to you 'd have to get them from som , from somewhere else . |
| 12 | When we talk about it ( now all too common in public ) , we do so as though it had set fast , even for a moment , in some way . |
| 13 | It would end up longer than when it started , right ? |
| 14 | More significant , it was not until after it ended that she began to possess permanent representatives of her own in the major capitals of Europe . |
| 15 | Marriage would come or it would not and if it did not come sooner it would come later or she would be unmarried and what stigma was there in that ? |
| 16 | Hall replied that there were a lot of wagons outside and that it looked as though some men were to go to Long Kesh Detention Camp . |
| 17 | With a final darting glance to ensure that her appearance was in order she made her way as nervously downstairs as if it had been she herself about to marry . |
| 18 | When they reached her floor eventually , she bade him a perfunctory farewell and stepped out of the lift with a feeling of release , hurrying towards her apartment , heart and hormones defeating any intention of greeting Luke 's arrival as coolly as if it did n't matter to her one way or the other . |
| 19 | It was slightly damp not in patches but all over as if it had been soaked in water then wrung out and left to dry through the night . |
| 20 | In either case , an unauthorised practitioner will have committed a criminal offence under the Financial Services Act , and pleading that he did it only once or that it happened by accident is not going to impress anyone . |
| 21 | Italy 's air force was told yesterday that unless it bombed fast moving lava flows pouring from Mount Etna to divert their course , the 6,500 people living at the foot of Europe 's highest volcano could face destruction . |
| 22 | run it out there and run it off that until it touched something . |
| 23 | We were going to once but when it came to it you did n't have the money for the licence . |
| 24 | He 'd said something similar once before and it had made Ronni feel a tiny bit guilty . |
| 25 | For a start he 'd given up being a hippie , which must have been a relief to the Fish , not only professionally but because it meant the Fish could play Charlie soul records — Otis Redding and all — the only music he liked . |
| 26 | It is in domestic architecture that Ostia provides the most interesting revelations for here are astonishingly well preserved remains of insulae , the tenement blocks which must have been constructed in quantity in Rome itself and , since Ostia is so near and as it had such close association with the capital , probably of a very similar character . |
| 27 | Samuel Hitching stated that he examined the Coffin carefully and that it had two canvas patches on where there were decayed places in the Wood — he also measured the thickness of the Board and they were only 5/8 of an inch at top and ½ an inch thick at the bottom — the lid was also warped that they could not screw it down properly-One of the bearers also stated that he was afraid it would fall in pieces before they got to the Church with it . |
| 28 | I 'm told it 's the 43rd single release off the album they said they 'd split up after if it did n't outsell Guns N' Roses ( or something ) . |
| 29 | At the editorial conference Rain brushed aside Holly 's error of judgement as blithely as if it had been her own . |
| 30 | Complying with her appeal , Dada abandoned his kedgeree and , sucking his moustache inwards always with him a sign of annoyance he picked up the viburnum , still with its precious burden , opened the bottom sash of a long window , and flung out the double butterfly as viciously as if it had been a slug in the salad . |