Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it failed she virtually gave up , and accepted the facts for what they were . ’ |
| 2 | It pinned us down and made us feel that we could n't not go back without feeling terribly guilty . |
| 3 | Since we had been back in Reine , Jean-Claude had stopped speaking of Montaine 's death as if it haunted him unduly . |
| 4 | Said it got him out of the rut for a while . |
| 5 | It got him out of the house , gave him a bit of exercise , kept him young . |
| 6 | It got me here , Thorny , it got me you . ’ |
| 7 | However , it got me well in with the sisters of the peace camp . |
| 8 | On my last day there I was literally pushed out of a small news agent 's shop by a pair of youths for requesting a box of matches in English rather than in French ; I even tried my one and only French joke on them and said ‘ Quel fromage ! ’ but it got me nowhere — but out ! |
| 9 | ‘ But I tried being polite for a long time , Aunt Ruth , and it got me nowhere . |
| 10 | After a time it got me down , this continued evasion of me , it was like a form of torture . |
| 11 | The way I viewed training was that it got me out of the house . |
| 12 | It got me out of clearing tables for a living , but I thought it meant more than that . |
| 13 | ‘ It got me out of the way while you put your nasty little heads together ! ’ |
| 14 | At least it got her out of his office without more lecturing , and when Glyn presented himself rather smugly she told him smartly that she intended to go to France and she intended to go alone . |
| 15 | Someone would need to be a genius to get that pile of rust going ; you forgot to mention it was a complete and utter wreck — I 'm surprised it got you this far ! ’ |
| 16 | She felt very nervous , but she remembered that Roger Kenyon had implied that the Rossitters were nice people , and it buoyed her up . |
| 17 | With dark hair cut quite short so that it revealed his classically shaped head , a deep tan finished with some light freckles , piercing blue eyes and a mouth that was generous in laughter and very straight and sober when he was absorbed in work , he had become the standard against which any other man she met was measured … and fell short . |
| 18 | It amused him even more and he looked down at her quizzically as she wrenched her arm from his grasp . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's still forgery , ’ said Sergeant Joe , although it amused him rather than troubled him , this gainful exercise of his talents . |
| 20 | It amused him too that I used only pins to mount most of the items on the card . |
| 21 | It passed me again , drew into the side and I saw a frantically waving arm . |
| 22 | That was n't it passed her on we went . |
| 23 | It passed us then , a very battered American car with a young Indian at the wheel . |
| 24 | Dropped a tile and it pierced it right the way through . |
| 25 | Can you imagine if they got cholera on that what was that boat that got cholera on it , it wiped them out , not the Mary Celeste was it ? |
| 26 | It concerned me deeply that the men going back to Burma should have a smattering of the language , especially those who would go in with the Wingate levies into occupied Burma . |
| 27 | ‘ Perhaps aliens have taken her , ’ suggested Joe , not giving the impression that it concerned him very greatly . |
| 28 | But crazed with lust , it rode him on : he had come so far , and bunching up his shirt . |
| 29 | It conveyed nothing out of the ordinary . |
| 30 | You should never attempt to dominate her simply because she is living in your home , for when you invited her to come to live with you it became her home too — the only home she has now , and she must be allowed to remain her own woman . |