Example sentences of "[coord] [subord] it [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 But like , I got the mirror down and like , I looked at it and whether it was the light or whether it just had n't come up cos it was only like , a few seconds afterwards
2 It would not be clear whether the child 's low performance was associated with poor linguistic ability in relation to British children , or whether it simply reflected the different experiences available to children in Britain and the USA .
3 Er the centre 's supposed to be totally non-political and if it ever got political , they 'd close us down .
4 All that had happened was that her safe shell was broken and if it ever healed it would be filled inside with sadness .
5 The answer , of course , is that it has never happened , and if it ever did there would be immediate and radical constitutional change to ensure it never happened again .
6 And if it actually recognized it .
7 MI5 will remain as unaccountable as it always has been and since it blatantly ignored the 1952 directive for over three decades without once being publicly called to account there is no reason to believe that MI5 will be any more law-abiding now .
8 It was still bright , highly professional and while it still had a very little life , Kenneth Williams was its king .
9 During the period of the Call-slip analysis and book condition survey — that is , between 12 and 24 January 1981 — the second copy of each call-slip submitted to the Issue Counter was stamped by a member of staff with the time and date of its submission , and when it ultimately arrived in the Reading Room , accompanied by the book to which it related , the time and date of its arrival was recorded on it by one of two fieldwork students from the College of Librarianship Wales who assisted in the implementation of the Survey .
10 A force was assembled under John of Gaunt which was to sail for Brittany in May , but its departure was held up until July , and when it eventually set out it made for Calais instead of Brittany .
11 went missing for about four hours and when it eventually bolted out this hole it run straight up him and curled up to him .
12 It was insured by the charity organiser Ruth Hilali , and when it apparently disappeared in transit , more than £100,000 was paid by insurers into charity funds at the Worcester branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland .
13 He remained at Mosley 's side as the BUF lost the support of its most influential followers , and as it increasingly employed its members for the provocation of violence .
14 This encyclical was , of course , theological rather than practical in its purpose , and though it undoubtedly helped to quicken the pace of liturgical reform in the Church , the driving force of change lay elsewhere — most particularly perhaps in Germany .
15 But although it clearly had dramatic effects on the nerves of Conservative Central Office there is no evidence of any major shift in voting intentions at that time .
16 But because it already occupied the existing space for electoral politics , the layer of educated and professional younger community leaders who might have become involved in politics was atomised .
17 ’ . I listened , looking vague I expect , but did nothing — not from ill-will but because it just did not occur to me to change .
18 Okay , we could have measured that and given it as part of a spec listing , but because it really did n't feel any different ( probably because its fingerboard width , radius and frets echoed most of the competition ) that fact was rendered almost inconsequential .
19 But because it only ran at 8MHz , it began to lag behind as processors got faster .
20 on germs and diseases and cuts and first aid things , after the St. John 's Ambulance , but since it never happened
21 In fact , Easy Rider was rather slow to catch on but when it finally caught the attention of the counter-culture , even the establishment newspapers and magazines began to offer up praise .
22 But when it really mattered , other priorities came first .
23 ‘ I 'm hoping to see something of Czechoslovakia while I 'm here , ’ she replied , but as it suddenly struck her that the silence emanating from Ven Gajdusek was decidedly chilly — and since the last thing she needed was to be bad friends with him if he objected to Lubor Ondrus flirting with her on his time , ‘ But now I must return to my hotel , ’ she added .
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