Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [to-vb] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to swallow and it hurt . |
| 2 | I once garnered a useful titbit about Indian life from a documentary about the highest balloon flight in the world because I happened to see that it took place in the centre of the Indian sub-continent where the air can be particularly still . |
| 3 | I decided to leave before it got dark , first thanking the Padre and his two Breton friends for their very kind hospitality . |
| 4 | I feared to find that it had changed , as many had told me , beyond recognition . |
| 5 | I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you . |
| 6 | The argument became heated when I refused to agree that it did not matter if the document was authentic or not . |
| 7 | She tried to laugh but it cracked . |
| 8 | Eleanor , ’ she said again , as she began to realise that it made a lot of sense . |
| 9 | Clara was not at all sure what a gallery was , but from the conversation she managed to deduce that it dealt in paintings , and unlike the Tate and the National Gallery , dealt commercially . |
| 10 | Nor had she ever seen such a dress on anyone over the age of thirty , but seeing it , she had to admit that it did not even look bizarre : it was a pale purple smock , waistless and bustless , with long , much-buttoned sleeves , and yet it managed to give only the faintest , most delicate air of Bohemia . |
| 11 | However , once the licence to sink an exploratory well was awarded to the Hamilton Oil Company , we tried to ensure that it honoured the conditions attached to the licence , prepared an adequate oil spill contingency plan and designed an operational programme which minimised the risks to the environment . |
| 12 | We had to admit that it looked rather splendid . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought it was you leaving me , ’ she said , making a joke of it , to comfort him , and he tried to laugh but it turned into a sob in his throat . |
| 14 | It was the picture he loved to give and it concealed all that he really was . |
| 15 | It started to rain as it grew dark outside . |
| 16 | If he showed it to be an impossible concept , he continued to demonstrate that it remains a necessary one , and acknowledged that we must learn to live with that impossibility . |
| 17 | Eighteen months ago it gave up its monopoly of politics but it continued to exist and it continued really as a kind of dog in the manger to prevent the er establishment of normal multi-party politics . |
| 18 | But his own reasoning was different : there were questions he wanted to ask and things he wanted to consider before it became common knowledge that MacQuillan had received a threat typed on a newsroom machine . |
| 19 | Einstein was deeply disturbed by the implications of this collapse , and he refused to believe that it happened . |