Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd put a fifty-pound note in it and so she thought that it had been stolen . |
| 2 | Perhaps they felt that it had been a dream all along , always doomed , this fantastical idea that their young brother would go on and get himself a serious education , even go to college . |
| 3 | Perhaps they had and it had been kept dark . |
| 4 | She took a step backwards , and suddenly he realized that it had n't been easy for her to come here . |
| 5 | She heard the voice again , over and over , calling her name , and then gradually she realised that it did n't come from the dream and she opened her eyes , staring breathless into the darkness . |
| 6 | Yesterday it announced that it had signed a letter of intent to sell its Ross Technology Inc subsidiary , repository of all its Sparc work , to Fujitsu Ltd for $23m . |
| 7 | When the frame was unfolded and set up she saw that it contained two photographs — one of a good-looking white-haired clergyman wearing a biretta , and the other of a ‘ sweet-faced ’ woman , her slender hand fondling the large cameo brooch at the throat of her dark dress . |
| 8 | ‘ But months later he confessed that it had hurt like hell , ’ she said . |
| 9 | Now he knew that it had been a diversion , designed to hold his gaze so that he would be disadvantaged in his dealings with her . |
| 10 | He had never questioned their presence , but now he realised that it had oppressed him . |
| 11 | Surely they realised that it had all been a mistake once you explained ? ’ |
| 12 | Then I saw that it had a light on the top and the crest of Kent Fire Brigade on the driver 's door . |
| 13 | equal to supervisor so I crossed that out and then I realised that it said intervene . |
| 14 | ‘ I had always thought that its grip on me was purely personal , ’ wrote Amanda , ‘ — I loved it simply because it was my home — but then I found that it caught other people in its web too . ’ |
| 15 | I said well I 'll buy the two leave them there I said but it 's done so simple . |
| 16 | Whatever you think about sliced bread ( for myself , I detest it ) , we all know the expression meant we did n't know how we managed before it existed . |
| 17 | And eventually in exasperation the bird flew a short way down the beach and picked up a small stone in its beak and then it returned and it bashed the shell repeatedly until it cracked it open and it was able to get at the contents inside . |
| 18 | And then it got that it blew over did n't it ? |
| 19 | And then he remembered that it had to be borne , that there was no other choice , and that there would be no escape from this place . |
| 20 | The first details of the annexation were broadcast by the PFKG on Aug. 8 when it announced that it had asked Iraq to approve a " complete full unity merger between Kuwait and Iraq , so that Saddam Hussein will be our leader " . |
| 21 | The Uprising destroyed this normality , and one must ask why it occurred , and why it occurred when it did , twenty years after the territories fell under Israeli rule . |