Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [verb] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So much had happened that it seemed incredible that it was barely a week since she 'd crossed the bridge in the opposite direction . |
| 2 | Now she finally had to admit that it had all been a total failure . |
| 3 | This was n't supposed to happen — but then , nothing today had happened as it had been supposed to . |
| 4 | When words ran as thin on him as this , he sometimes managed to suppose that it meant he was unconsciously saving them to write with . |
| 5 | Yet the president 's radicalism unfortunately did falter when it came to the public sector . |
| 6 | And still , after Crime and Punishment , the idea of a confession novel or story tugs at the edge of Dostoevsky 's vision , and continues to do so for the rest of his life in the form of The Life of a Great Sinner which he planned on the scale of War and Peace , but which never got written though it fed previous material into his novels of the seventies , and especially Karamazov at the turn of the next decade . |