Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 He laid upon the table a drawstring purse of soft leather , that chinked faintly as it shifted and settled .
2 It was an ever increasing thing that blew up because it got a little too big , but it did make David a star and he has dealt with it really well , and is a man who does wonderful work .
3 Now , we saw Queen Margaret mourning her husband ; we have Selkirk 's riddle about a Lion that cried even though it died ; Oswald the moss trooper 's tale about more than one royal corpse being discovered at Flodden … ’
4 Here is a new dimension of the paranormal , the sound of a diesel motor coming from a train that appeared long after it had been scrapped .
5 In the stunned silence George Felse got up , without speaking , and crossed the room to where Gus 's jacket hung on the back of a chair , turned towards the replenished fire , and steamed gently as it dried .
6 She estimated that its body was about twice the size of the shuttle , but it seemed much larger because of the mottled membranes that extended like wings on both sides of the creature , and rippled lazily as it swam through space .
7 Okay in Italy on the marble it does work , but on the slate it you know it it has n't worked and I think various quarries have tried it and found out that it does n't work , and yet he assumed that he knew better and you know , little little things like that , you know he just seemed unwilling to learn or lis heed advice .
8 He 'd always assumed that this was a piece of official terminology until one day he 'd asked what it meant , and found out that it stood for Another Fucking Drunk .
9 … imagine a fairy chain stretched from mountain peak to mountain peak , as far as the eye could reach , and paid out until it touched the ‘ high places ’ of the earth at a number of ridges , banks , and knowls .
10 Mr. Cooper , the chairman of the dock company and the ports authority , gave evidence before me and stated unequivocally that it did not come from him , nor to his knowledge from any of his subordinates .
11 We climbed Storskarfjell on a long and hard day that started before the sun came up and finished long after it had gone down .
12 Ben studied his brother — the man he had always thought of as his father and saw suddenly that it did not matter what he was in reality , for Hal Shepherd had become what he believed he was .
13 I saw again the one that escaped the Grounds and died just before it made it to the stream .
14 Like a forest fire , it started from the individual and grew outwards until it enveloped the whole area of monastic patrons and friends and dependants .
15 These simulations allow weaknesses in an inspection system to be identified and rectified long before it enters practice .
16 During a violent storm it broke away and drifted westwards until it hit land on the barren headland of San Quentin .
17 He heard himself , it sounded like a door opening somewhere inside him , it was an old door , it had been stuck for years , you had to heave on it , you needed all your strength , and then it gave a few inches , and cried out as it gave .
18 Later in the twelfth century Vladimir became the capital and leading city of the area and continued so until it succumbed to the Tartars .
19 Thinly washed colour was applied , then blended with the brush and pushed around until it felt right .
20 Christina touched the side of his jeep and jumped away as it began to rock .
21 The first chairperson of the organisation , the evangelical church minister Detlof Rose , considered the congress to be a success and pointed out that it had raised critical questions with regard to the Church and its use of modern technology .
22 Mouths that opened and closed hungrily as it advanced , showing lots of saw-teeth within the openings .
23 Lavinia wanted to say she was sorry for Timothy Gedge , but did not because it did n't seem true .
24 Mr Sproat pointed out that currently BR was under no compulsion to make concessions but did so because it made obvious economic sense .
25 Casein was nearly foolproof in application , of excellent strength both wet and dry , but rotted catastrophically when it got the chance .
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