Example sentences of "it [conj] [vb past] [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I must have watched it or listened to it or something like that . |
| 2 | Cos nobody 's been sent any notices for it or notified about it . |
| 3 | This is a subject to which I shall return , but for the moment I prefer to confine myself to the typical picture and to show where my own circumstances coincided with it or diverged from it . |
| 4 | If , on the other hand , he was not genuine in writing the letters and had connived or conduced to the fraudulent behaviour of the son , or was even aware of it and consented to it , then he would not under any logical analysis have written the letters in these terms . |
| 5 | The house owner found it and ran with it to the boat . ’ |
| 6 | The Fulmars continued searching for it and came across it ( or the aircraft forced down by Taylor ) floating on the sea ; there were no signs of life . |
| 7 | She tasted it and nibbled on it , and plunged into it , until a hand took her chin and their mouths once again met . |
| 8 | They believed that the land was under the care and guardianship of the people who used it and lived on it . |
| 9 | ( I was four and a half years on the Western Front as a stretcher bearer ) and only one of the worst cases who had it and lived through it . |
| 10 | The Captain took it and looked at it , still without speaking . |
| 11 | She would have needed to have lain on the floor beside it and leaned into it . |
| 12 | She closed it and leaned against it , looking up at me in an unconsciously provocative attitude . |
| 13 | So powerful were the effects of this philosophy that to those who looked down from a higher level in society , the suffering became invisible ; or if not invisible , then transparent , and their view was not arrested by it but looked through it at what they took to be economic verities beyond . |
| 14 | 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 . |