Example sentences of "it [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He kind of looked at me quizzically and he had either not heard it or it had n't made any impact on him … and he basically just kind of waved it off . ’ |
| 2 | He suddenly captured her hand and placed it where it had been before , over the steady beat of his heart . |
| 3 | I sat cross-legged just by the blaze , staring into it from up-wind until it was out and only the metal of the Black Destroyer remained , then I took the sooty skeleton and buried it where it had been ruined , at the bottom of the hill . |
| 4 | yeah one of Andy 's cases this morning I had to do it where it had growth old cash on it , which it should n't have had so it was quite handy . |
| 5 | I caught it with the catapult , the thick black tubing of the rubber twisting once in the air as I scissored my hands and fell back , letting the buck go over my head and then kicking with my legs and turning myself so that I was level with it where it lay , kicking and struggling with the power of a wolverine , spreadeagled on the sand slope with its neck caught in the black rubber . |
| 6 | Longings that led it where it went |
| 7 | Removal of this national vulnerability and dependence on other nations became the prime aim , and so compelling an aim was it that it came to be achieved by fair means or foul . |
| 8 | I used to have a file , but I found that , as with so many files one opens , I was putting so much in it that it ceased to be useful . |
| 9 | She could tell by the feel of it that it had some papers inside , but she did not look at them . |
| 10 | How was it that it had taken him so long to see Parry 's daughter thus clearly ? |
| 11 | The council grew so tired of lorries cutting this corner short and hitting the casement of the listed building next to it that it had to build a specially high kerb . |
| 12 | That 's why we came out with it 'cause it reflected what we liked at the time . ’ |
| 13 | We would n't have got on to it except it happened to be a post office where the little old lady is careful and takes a note of the numbers of anything over a fiver . |
| 14 | Chant had no sooner focused upon it than it leapt towards his face . |
| 15 | As far as one can tell from his letters , he was pleased with it although it did not sell . |
| 16 | Their friends told them they were crazy , it sold for a nickel and nobody , they discovered , had the curiosity to buy it although it did make all the local Greenwich Village news-stands . |
| 17 | ‘ Of course , he 'd never have made it if it had n't been for the skill of our local doctor ’ |
| 18 | ‘ The APB would never have made it if it had all been practitioners . |
| 19 | Clara had actually heard one constant church attender , caught out donating a small charitable sum to the Vicar , defend herself to Mrs Maugham by saying that she had n't really meant to give it , and that she never would have given it if it had n't been that her little boy had just given up Sunday school . |
| 20 | If it if it had been a tie we would have tossed a coin . |
| 21 | It fitted Belinda perfectly … and she acknowledged inwardly that she might have preferred it if it had n't . |
| 22 | An individual who is domiciled outside the United Kingdom shall not be chargeable to tax in respect of the sum which is deemed to be his under s739 if he would not have been chargeable to tax in respect of it if it had been in fact his income . |
| 23 | Nor does the contrary proposition , that the law does not contain the clear meaning if the legislators did not intend it and would have rejected it if it had been brought to their attention . |
| 24 | ‘ He would never have made it if it had n't been for you . |
| 25 | Yeah but this this this dog will only drink it if it had a little bit of lemonade in . |
| 26 | Eubank is also asking for £1m to fight Benn once more but admitted : ‘ I would even take it if it meant that the winner got Pounds 1m and the loser only half as much — the fight is that important to me . ’ |
| 27 | I therefore went into a meeting at in December and er we were presented with a report , we did n't receive it before the meeting , it was taken at the meeting and we said that we would n't discuss it if it related to night flights and again I wrote immediately back to the department of transport and I suggested that they should erm spend the report which I refer to , monthly figures of night flights so that the night flights could be monitored . |
| 28 | Well , this was the greatest challenge of her life and she would damn well face it if it killed her . |
| 29 | All also said they would prefer it if it came in a pot , rather than in the single-application , fiddly pea-sized plastic spheres . |
| 30 | And if it if it came an air raid you started scurrying to the hill to get in the tunnel . |