Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It tumbled over her slim straight shoulders in deep shining waves that reached almost to her waist , and her beautiful , heart-shaped face shone like a child 's . |
| 2 | Her explanation : ‘ He was going to tour but when it got closer he realised he did n't want to . |
| 3 | In some of the more elaborate biplanes it was not always easy to tell which way the loads were going and it was a stock joke at one time that the way to check the rigging of a certain aircraft was to put a canary between the wings ; if it got out something was wrong . |
| 4 | Those letters from you , it got so I almost believed they were really written to me . |
| 5 | I have no idea how i it went around a up in the northern hemisphere , over Scandinavia , and Georgia 's in the south , so you 'd have think it 'd have been weak by the time it got down I 'm not a scientist , I have no idea what |
| 6 | When it passed off he straightened up and looked at his watch . |
| 7 | It draped over her back . ’ |
| 8 | It swirled over her ankles . |
| 9 | E-shaped , as was the fashion , it centred round its Great Hall , a reminder still of the public life lived by many Tudor leaders . |
| 10 | Conversation was easier now , and although Alison noticed that Carson managed to keep it centred around her life and background she no longer tried to push and probe . |
| 11 | So I bent down to clear it and gradually it crept up me legs to me knees , What 's the matter lad ? |
| 12 | Even the inner-city property sites of National Carriers did not look very tempting once it became clear there was an abundance of that kind of property on offer . |
| 13 | On closer inspection it became clear there were two sets of figures for the same period of time for the Grenfell Leather Trading Company . |
| 14 | When the trial started on Monday , Mr Goldring said that following a number of mysterious incidents involving youngsters at the hospital , it became clear there was a criminal at large on Ward 4 , the children 's ward . |
| 15 | It sold almost everything you could think of except cigarettes . |
| 16 | His remarks were seen as a hint that the Conservatives might let a minority Government led by Mr Kinnock stay in office if it toned down its programme , rather than force an immediate second election . |
| 17 | I 'm not totally convinced that is would stop a very aggressive fish from finding a way through if it made up its mind to do so . |
| 18 | It made up his mind for him . |
| 19 | It made up my mind for me . |
| 20 | Sweating , he took off his anorak and carried it slung over his shoulder . |
| 21 | Yeah because you go to be the eldest and then just at the time you should of gone on and become the youngest , it changed so you were the eldest all the time |
| 22 | The final putting the ball in the onion net was a total fluke , Rush mis-hit it ( one paper said it bounced off his nose ) , and Lukic and Fairclough looked on with stunned bewilderment . |
| 23 | It described how there had been a fifty percent increase in food poisoning cases in district year and then it went on to say that it , it was largely , it was thought that that increase was largely because of the increased publicity which the council had been given hygiene training , and saying how many people had been trained , and how the Health Committee was being asked to provide more resources so there could more courses even , even more courses in the following year . |
| 24 | As it moved inland its force was reduced and , on the afternoon of Aug. 26 , it was officially downgraded to the status of a tropical storm . |
| 25 | His hand scalded her as it moved down her body , gliding silkily over the depression of her waist , across the flat planes of her quivering stomach , and back again to the graceful sweep of her hip . |
| 26 | When it drew up its ideas for 1994-97 , the Clinton administration assumed the Bush programme was underfunded by $10 billion . |
| 27 | I suspect that the Labour party simply did not understand when it drew up its policy that everyone would pay more national insurance contributions in a single week if they earned above one fifty second of statutory UEL . |
| 28 | As it drew nearer he became quiet and moody . |
| 29 | Er I do n't know if you 've experience of steel but when you feel the handles of a , a lathe first thing in a morning it 's like lifting pieces of ice and er the heating arrangement took about four hours before it built up you know , to a reasonable working degree . |
| 30 | ‘ A friend of mine who 's a florist got married the other day and she had a really lovely do and it cost almost nothing . |