Example sentences of "and [subord] [pron] [vb past] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | If ‘ that bloody woman ’ had heard him utter such a curse , she would have ripped into him with a piece of her mind , then he would have whipped her with his tongue , then this sop of a man before him would have got between them , and afore you knew it , there would be a full-scale war waging — and in the heat of the moment he might foolishly betray his devious plans to boot the lot of them out of his house and out of his life . |
| 2 | I 'd like to know which picture this is , and where they got it . |
| 3 | How much they spent ( in addition to accommodation ) , and where they spent it . |
| 4 | Kipling wrote : ‘ We 've only one virginity to lose And where we lost it there our hearts will be . ’ |
| 5 | On Monday 27 February Fleischmann and Pons were due to bring their working cell to Brigham Young University for the neutron spectrum to be measured , but a graduate student had to go to a funeral and so they suggested it would be better to come at the end of the week instead . |
| 6 | He built his dragons a garden , the most beautiful garden in the world , and although he surrounded it with an iron wall which he believed they would not cross , he made the wall beautiful for them , lavish with filigree work and sweet with hanging plants . |
| 7 | The letter filled Lucy with indignation , and although she answered it politely she longed to ask whether the writer would agree to allowing a similar number of plants to be dug from her own property . |
| 8 | There was always too much to do and although she hated it when she came as a young bride , she had grown to love it and would defend it with her life . |
| 9 | And although I found it hard to understand that you did n't want to meet her again that evening , I accepted that she was possibly ‘ not your type ’ . |
| 10 | This study might appear one sided with more detail about ‘ Anna Karenina ’ but I think it is inevitable and although I found it quite hard to compare such different styles , I enjoyed reading and studying both . |
| 11 | And once we had it was before we had all our carpet done in the hall |
| 12 | Type-cases too were heavy , and if one fell it took a long time to sort out the type again . |
| 13 | And if they knew it had all been |
| 14 | The working classes rarely travelled far , and if they did it was on foot or , in the later years of the century , by tram , ‘ the gondola of the working classes ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ If Haines recommended the Jockey Club should be abolished we would have to consider it and if we felt it was for the benefit of racing we would do it , ’ Lord Hartington said . |
| 16 | So we 're just adding the conductances again , and if we did it with three of , we had sort of three pipes |
| 17 | Two hundred and fifty five , and if we did it to he 's absolutely right , erm then this one should have given his bearing as two fifty three minus seventy , which comes to , what does that come to ? |
| 18 | and if we paid it before the end of January |
| 19 | And if she knew it , and Marjorie knew it , then he must know it too . |
| 20 | And if she left it , God alone knew what sort of mess there would be in the morning . |
| 21 | ‘ I think there 's opium in it , Anne , and if she took it too often it would n't help when she really needed it . |
| 22 | You put a bit of pressure on its mandible , or lower beak , and if it broke it was a young bird . |
| 23 | ‘ And if I saw it on , say , Julia Roberts or Demi Moore in a film I 'd think it was wonderful , but it 's not me . |
| 24 | Er , and if I said it about any television programme you had watched . |
| 25 | I should be able to find that , even in the dark , and if I followed it I should stumble over the painter , or the dinghy herself . |
| 26 | and I was gon na go and apply for but then Neil he sent for me and just asked me , just told me there was a job come up in the office and if I wanted it |
| 27 | It had been a long day for him already , and if he made it back before nine he was going to be lucky . |
| 28 | And if he drove it well , I knew he 'd play well . |
| 29 | Oh and if he said it once well he said it half a dozen times trying to impress me . |
| 30 | This did not mean that he was above sacrificing aesthetic principle — if there is such a thing , and if he had it — to the purely partisan pleasures of Morte aux païens . |