Example sentences of "it [adv] [subord] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furious , Wilson went down into the freezing kitchen , where the well banked-up fire had not quite died down , and poked it vigorously until it began to burn up . |
| 2 | I ENJOYED it most because it made me laugh so much . |
| 3 | The Queen and Prince Philip survived it only because it came upon them in middle age — when any youthful indescretion or misbehaviour had long since been enjoyed and then forgotten in the mists of time . |
| 4 | Leroy Brown , at one stage a prodigious sprinter , reflected on a career which never materialized : ‘ I just do n't know why I could n't put it together when it mattered . |
| 5 | It is not exactly one of the world 's most prosperous economies , although the Opposition used to admire it greatly before it decided to drop its socialist credentials . |
| 6 | A silver cup whizzed an inch wide of her father 's ear ; her eldest brother caught it just before it sailed out of an arrow-slit window . |
| 7 | I tell it just as it happened , from where we ran up the hill almost straight into the man ; I leave out what Andy and I were doing just before , and the man 's line about dirty , perverted things . |
| 8 | That is getting away from the old system whereby the County Council held a vast store of advisers in Macclesfield House , stacked up , and schools that needed them requested them and off they went , but schools in fact that wanted perhaps a different sort of advice , was n't able to get it from Macclesfield House , and could n't buy it outside because it did n't have the money to do so . |
| 9 | ‘ It will be a stormy night , ’ Michael said , and Crane , leaning forward , took Allen 's dagger from his belt and flung it outside where it clattered on the stones . |
| 10 | If the sound is played at a different speed , only adjustment of the volume control is necessary to make it sound as it did before . |
| 11 | Treat it as junk and throw it away although it cost me more than fifty four . |
| 12 | Wurlitzer originally wrote a quite different last chapter to his novel but threw it away because it seemed too analytical . |
| 13 | But only the occasional shafts of sunlight gave it away as it worked slowly downwards , making the most of its daily exercise . |
| 14 | She put out the light , leaving it exactly where it had been , for Philip . |
| 15 | Well did the Book of Common prayer put it succinctly when it spoke of the relationship between us and God : ‘ Whose service is perfect freedom ’ . |
| 16 | The red bitch became short-tempered , snapping at the puppy when it went to suckle her dangling teats , now empty of milk : pushing it aside when it clambered over her sleeping body or pummelled her head in a rowdy mock fight . |
| 17 | They went over it repeatedly until it weakened and gave in and became part of them . |
| 18 | Jinny remembered it clearly because it had been quite different from all the solemn newspaper cuttings Keith had shown her , and she had stopped to make fun of one or two of Harriet Shakespeare 's more nauseating remarks . |
| 19 | Mind you it 's true he'd' 've got more for it probably if it 'd been working but |
| 20 | The calf was sold long ago , and she would not even recognize it now if it ambled into the yard . |
| 21 | ‘ I would n't drink it even if it tasted like the real thing , ’ comments Stephen , a 32-year-old designer . |
| 22 | He believed that if the paper made a big enough impact and was raved about by the industry , there would be a rush to save it even if it did n't sell enough to make a profit . |
| 23 | But even at his most confused , the essence of Maurice was still there , and we loved him for it even when it drove us spare . |
| 24 | But you had to win it twice before it became your own property . |
| 25 | As he watched , a mink pounced on the vole and , although the vole dived from the bank for safety at the last minute , the mink had grabbed it almost before it hit the water . |
| 26 | She had wondered about it briefly when it seemed certain that her mother and Michele 's father had known each other in the past . |
| 27 | Well , we enjoyed that outing , er we had tea on the roof , which was all glass , never seen anything like it before and I sha n't see it again since it got burnt down anyway . |
| 28 | It had left her a little awe-stricken and she made a move to look at it again as it lay on her dressing-table . |