Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pers pn] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was one of those ‘ look after number one ’ types , not averse to trampling on other people if it got him where he wanted to be . |
| 2 | All of that I could understand , but it concerned me that she was so nervous and desperately unhappy . |
| 3 | It disturbed him that she had n't broken the news by saying she was pregnant . |
| 4 | then he or she can only be forced to hand back the item if the price it cost him or her is paid in compensation [ Art . |
| 5 | So she went instead to the place that advertised on the tube that it helped you if you were pregnant ; she thought there might be the small chance that they would know where she could get an abortion . |
| 6 | Yet it scorched him that he had been unable to give her that chance himself . |
| 7 | It amazed her that she should find it difficult to tell him . |
| 8 | It amazed her that she had not thought that the minute she had met him , or maybe she had but had simply denied it to herself . |
| 9 | It amazed her that she 'd ever believed herself in love with him , that she 'd deluded herself into seeing his arrogance and his egotism as positive qualities . |
| 10 | She was n't quick enough to let go and it overbalanced her and she plunged into the water next to him . |
| 11 | It excited her and she promised herself that one day she would unravel the mystery . |
| 12 | Placed on the carpet , it attracted her and she sat sniffing it closely . |
| 13 | It troubled her and she crossed the space between them , touching his shoulder . |
| 14 | I mean really I er it shook me because I was extremely naive , I 'd had two children but I was very very naive in those days . |
| 15 | It startled her that he should know this much when she had tried so hard to be circumspect in making her enquiries . |
| 16 | Or the nineteen thirties book is like one of the things that really inspired me because it showed me that you can do type that looks as though , I mean it can be composed as though in metal and not be boring — can not be , manufactured , you know hum drum , by varying the weights and by massing it , and also one of the things they do , that you see in those books that you did n't see in printing , was this size of type . |
| 17 | Anyway , I learn quickly ; it showed me that I 'm on my own — my dear parents , bless them , are simply too pure and innocent to see what is so obvious to me . |
| 18 | It showed us that you can be 45 and do n't have to be washed up . |
| 19 | It eluded him and he fell asleep at last . |
| 20 | It surprised me but it could easily have been tiredness from being out so long . |
| 21 | Now it surprised him that he was expected to declare the pattern and intention behind it all in order that others could understand . |
| 22 | It surprised him that he was not drawn into conversation with the two at his table , but they evidently spoke only to their own . |
| 23 | It surprised him but he said , ‘ Oh , OK , ’ and stayed a pace away looking troubled . |
| 24 | He chucked this bit of glass , it cut him so we ran over here . |
| 25 | ‘ It frightened me that you had not told me . |
| 26 | When I look back , it 's impossible to pin-point a moment when it hit me that I was ‘ successful ’ . |
| 27 | It hit me and I fell , cutting my head on the door . |
| 28 | It hit me when I phoned up and they said those two had gone . |
| 29 | And er that poor devil i i it hit him and I know wen we got him out , one eye was about an inch lower than the other . |
| 30 | They would drink that in some of these pubs and , of course , as soon as they got out in the fresh air , it hit them and they were away . |