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 | 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 … ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We climbed Storskarfjell on a long and hard day that started before the sun came up and finished long after it had gone down . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I saw again the one that escaped the Grounds and died just before it made it to the stream . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | These simulations allow weaknesses in an inspection system to be identified and rectified long before it enters practice . |
| 12 | During a violent storm it broke away and drifted westwards until it hit land on the barren headland of San Quentin . |
| 13 | Later in the twelfth century Vladimir became the capital and leading city of the area and continued so until it succumbed to the Tartars . |
| 14 | Christina touched the side of his jeep and jumped away as it began to rock . |
| 15 | Mouths that opened and closed hungrily as it advanced , showing lots of saw-teeth within the openings . |
| 16 | Mr Sproat pointed out that currently BR was under no compulsion to make concessions but did so because it made obvious economic sense . |
| 17 | Casein was nearly foolproof in application , of excellent strength both wet and dry , but rotted catastrophically when it got the chance . |