Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] it " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Feeling unable to see just then how Cara , even with her journalistic experience , would have fared better with a man who , somehow without you noticing , turned every question or countered it with one of his own , Fabia resolved , as Lubor Ondrus turned into a driveway and steered the Skoda uphill , to do better . |
| 2 | Even if bitten or pecked it continues to lie limply on the ground . |
| 3 | A " producer " , under s1(2) , is defined as : ( a ) the person who manufactured it ; ( b ) in the case of a substance which has not been manufactured but has been won or abstracted , the person who won or abstracted , the person who won or abstracted it ; ( c ) in the case of a product which has not been manufactured , won or abstracted but essential characteristics of which are attributable to an industrial or other process having been carried out ( for example , in relation to agricultural produce ) , the person who carried out that process … |
| 4 | There was none of the violence of illness in it , no writhing or moaning , and it was never impatient or irritable when Kalchu tried to feed it or probed it for sores . |
| 5 | ‘ Then maybe you were supposed to cry over milk , because it helped preserve it , or made it easier to turn into cheese . |
| 6 | ‘ the simple facts which the court has to find are whether the defendant 's conduct in fact prevented the police from carrying out their duty , or made it more difficult for them to do so , and whether the defendant intended that conduct to prevent the police from carrying out their duty or to make it more difficult to do so . ’ |
| 7 | It is more difficult to obtain a conviction under section 14 than under other sections of the Act because the prosecution must show that the defendant either knew the statement to be false or made it recklessly , i.e. regardless of whether it was true or false . |
| 8 | The problem with keeping the original ( e.g. as a photocopy , with sections highlighted ) is that you have n't really done anything with it yet : you have n't assimilated it or made it your own , in the sense of fitting it with ( and so allowing it to affect ) your existing thoughts and knowledge . |
| 9 | You know , perhaps if you straightened up on the side , or made it a bit more symmetrical , so that I know how to improve it next time . |
| 10 | Both Britomart and Radigund forgot their skill in battle ( whether they also forgot their feminine nature or revealed it is more difficult to determine ) . |
| 11 | She loaned them money , saved it for them or doled it out when necessary , all the transactions being written on the souvenir programme of whatever show she was appearing in . |
| 12 | He might have pledged it to pay his debts , or sold it . |
| 13 | I burst into tears because I was sure Mum had pawned it or sold it . |
| 14 | ‘ Or sold it . ’ |
| 15 | If you 've ever drilled into a water pipe or found it difficult to get a good fixing on a wall , you need a Rapitest Wire , Pipe & Stud Detector . |
| 16 | At least , I was grateful enough to send them a copy of the thesis , but there is no evidence that they read it or found it useful . |
| 17 | In one survey , 83 per cent of the younger girls never , used contraception or used it sporadically . |
| 18 | How much better life would have been if I 'd known about that or used it ? |
| 19 | Who owned or used it ? |
| 20 | Sentencing the two men , Judge Richard May said he was bearing in mind that the defendants had n't put the money in their own pockets or used it to support expensive lifestyles . |
| 21 | Do n't inject nothing till you have snorted , smoked or sucked it . |
| 22 | Submitter the LIFESPAN user name of the person who submitted the SSR , or created it , if it has not been submitted . |
| 23 | ‘ to provoke the immediate use of unlawful violence by that person or another ’ If this point is charged or reported it may be proved by the officer in the case questioning the offender on the lines of : ‘ Did you intend to provoke the Notown football supporters into violence ? |
| 24 | Someone who has received an object in exchange is like a buyer ; and so is someone who has received it in payment or retained it after settlement of a law suit or obtained it on the basis of a promise otherwise than as a gift . |
| 25 | Yet over most of the world it inevitably came up against social and institutional obstacles which prevented or inhibited it , and in so doing also stood in the way of the other great task which capitalist — or indeed any — industrial development set its landed sector . |
| 26 | With regard to safety , if a product is misused or overheated it is better if unpleasant or acrid fumes are given off rather than sweet smelling , pleasant fumes that may be toxic |
| 27 | Where a summons or other originating process has been served on a defendant by post or insertion in his letter-box under Ord 7 , 4 10(1) ( b ) or 4(a) or r 13(1) ( b ) or ( 4 ) and after judgment has been given or entered it appears to the court that the process did not come to the knowledge of the defendant in time , the court may of its own motion set aside the judgment and may give any direction or make any such order as the court may think just . |
| 28 | Though he never idealised it or pretended it was anything but ‘ the rude rags of nature ’ , he saw things in it to which Crabbe was completely blind or hostile , and he felt their loss when change and ‘ improvement ’ came : |
| 29 | I wondered what would happen if I ignored the call or pretended it was n't me , but I had a strong feeling that they knew it was me . |
| 30 | Each man tightened his grip or loosened it , pygmies struggling to coax a reluctant giant into a narrow cage . |