Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb past] [subord] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the urchin flexed its bristles I momentarily wondered if it would be edible . |
| 2 | I just asked whether it had to be done in here , while I 'm eating . ’ |
| 3 | couple of weeks back she got a throat infection , I just wondered whether it had come back . |
| 4 | I just wondered whether it was because the erm men with the red van at the gate there |
| 5 | I just wondered whether it was |
| 6 | I just wondered whether it was important for you to get it out ; apart from any artistic creation , it did something important for yourself ? |
| 7 | And I just wondered if it would ease the discussion if we omitted that particular corridor ? |
| 8 | Erm what it is we 're a press agency working for the national papers and about eighteen months ago we did Em Emma 's story for the Sunday People erm and now I 've just seen the Evening Mail today erm and I 've got , you know the how she 's grown nine inches in the past eighteen months , er and just thought the story might er might take another outing and I just wondered if it was possible f for you to help us contact her er her mother at all ? |
| 9 | I do n't really know why I always went unless it was to remind myself that I too had once come from some other world than the one in which I lived . |
| 10 | I also asked if it affected sexual performance . |
| 11 | I immediately agreed because it seemed like a natural idea for me . |
| 12 | The smoked-glass doors of Swift were closed and the Mercedes had long ago pulled into the traffic , but she just kept seeing it in her mind , Damian striding along with his arm around the beautiful Domino . |
| 13 | ‘ All right , all right , ’ she quickly agreed as it dawned on her that if he was who she thought he was then she was going about it completely the wrong way if she hoped for an interview . |
| 14 | She even wondered if it might not have been Mandy 's laughter-filled anecdotes about summers at the lodge that had coaxed this deep ache of loss within her to the surface of her consciousness . |
| 15 | She began to go through the whole thing in her prayer and then realized that God of course would know anyway , so she simply asked if it could be that Timothy Gedge was possessed by devils . |
| 16 | She briefly wondered if it was perhaps the work of Earth Reptiles , but swiftly dismissed the idea , since not only did the style not match theirs , but there was no sign of their hibernation hives . |
| 17 | As she gathered up the bedding and cushions she had hung out of the windows to air before the evening earth began to exhale dew , she wondered whether she should fetch out her best mantilla , the white lace her mother had given her for her first communion , which she never wore because it seemed so showy , and had n't worn even yesterday for the Easter Mass . |
| 18 | His legs were beginning to get twitchy and fidgety , the way they always did when it was particularly important for him to keep them under control . |
| 19 | Was he trying to say that they could n't recapture what they once had because it had n't existed ? |
| 20 | We agreed that Deborah would cover the administrative side of the discussion , the need to raise funds for rehabilitation , for residential care and for support for the carers ( whose life is as devastated by the loss of the person they previously knew as it is by the burden of twenty-four-hour dependency . ) |
| 21 | The trouble was , it only spoke when it felt like it . |
| 22 | He only became as it were conscious again when he realised that she was on to another topic . |
| 23 | It just felt like it was an orfe day . |
| 24 | It just stayed where it was . |
| 25 | And he just went because it was his father 's funeral . |
| 26 | Perhaps he had forgotten that the bell would ring or he hardly cared whether it rang or not . |
| 27 | Yet it nearly stopped when it started . |
| 28 | He sometimes wondered if it was not Blanche 's ability to daydream like this for a few seconds a day , the power to see beauty in apparent ugliness , that was the key to her resilience . |
| 29 | ‘ I can not say what he actually said because it was so bad , and it went on for so long . |
| 30 | It certainly looked like it was . |