Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a moment before Carson was able to place the researcher 's voice — after all , he 'd only heard it once before but he said , ‘ Yes , I 'm alone . |
| 2 | So if he 'd only got it recently , it would n't have been found . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've still got the knife , ’ she said , but she knew she 'd already said it too many times . |
| 4 | Well , the way I 'd always done it before was , change it to value , before I combined it . |
| 5 | And all this time , people though he 'd always had it easy , him with his women and his cheekbones and his income . |
| 6 | She knew that he had been Eddie 's best friend — that was why she 'd always found it so hard to accept that he could have deliberately driven her brother off the track . |
| 7 | The use of the collective pronoun in Charity 's invitation to the Antelope Public House reminded Charles how cliquey he 'd always found it there . |
| 8 | I was playing loads of rave music , and at the end they were begging us not to go off because it was the first time they 'd ever heard it properly . |
| 9 | Not that he 'd ever admitted it before , even to himself . |
| 10 | Stories he covered during his long association with the Independent included the historic meeting between Terence O'Neill and Sean Lemass , the suspension of Stormont — he 'd now seen it both open and close — the Sunningdale talks ( ‘ the Press corps played a lot of poker ’ ) and many more turning points in history . |
| 11 | she 'd never seen it so busy though |
| 12 | And she 'd never seen it before in her life . |
| 13 | It was great , but it was I mean , I , I have to watch it because I 'd never seen it before |
| 14 | I 'd never seen it before and that 's the one time I 've seen it . |
| 15 | Minutes later he 'phoned back and asked how to place a bet because he 'd never done it before . |
| 16 | He 'd never done it before but thought it sounded like harmless fun . |
| 17 | ‘ He said he 'd never prescribed it before but he was willing to let me try it . |
| 18 | Funny how she 'd never noticed it before . |
| 19 | Even though he 'd never said it before . |
| 20 | She had said she loved him , once , and it had chilled him , so clearly that she 'd never mentioned it again . |
| 21 | They did n't quite tell us that we 'd never had it so good , but the impression they gave was that if we trusted Honest John and Uncle Norman to look after the nation 's piggy bank , all would be well . |
| 22 | The other week and I 'd never had it before but er I liked it . |
| 23 | And you 'd actually spotted it already which I thought was brilliant except we do need to have the |
| 24 | All those years ago they had thoughtfully placed it unusually low on the wall to make it easy for the child Maggie had then been to reach . |
| 25 | In fact , his parents had both been excruciatingly polite to her , but that had only made it even more obvious that she was n't the kind of wife they wanted for their clever , ambitious son . |
| 26 | It had been held every year since I was five , and I had only missed it once , the year I was in Nigeria . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's the first time we 've been banned anywhere , ’ said Barry , adding that singer Michael Stipe had been involved in the production of the video and that the rest of the band had only seen it once . |
| 28 | Christina had only encountered it once before when he was hell-bent on buying Crystal Springs . |
| 29 | Bill had only parked it here a few minutes ago . |
| 30 | She cheered up after writing the experiment because she had obviously done it rather well . |