Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pers pn] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Longings that led it where it went |
| 2 | All about running for trains they could n't catch or being sat on by scaly monsters , and they got hold of books that told you that it meant Sex . |
| 3 | And that satisfied them and it satisfied me . |
| 4 | Victor breathed on the glass in his hand , and buffed it until it gleamed . |
| 5 | I lunged for the meth. bottle and caught it before it hit the floor . |
| 6 | She tossed it up and caught it as it came slowly down . |
| 7 | He moved his hand and touched her breast through the robe she wore , found the nipple and stroked it until it hardened and she stirred . |
| 8 | They let me have one last look and told me that it belonged to someone in another band — which made me feel really guilty . |
| 9 | He found a rusty man-trap in a cupboard — an evil contraption of chains and springs and teeth — and assured her that it had taken the leg off more than one poacher in its day . |
| 10 | She instantly strode across the shop and took a book from among thousands and assured me that it contained all I would ever need to know about cooking for ever . |
| 11 | I sat cross-legged just by the blaze , staring into it from up-wind until it was out and only the metal of the Black Destroyer remained , then I took the sooty skeleton and buried it where it had been ruined , at the bottom of the hill . |
| 12 | She kept hold of his arm and shook it till it became elastic and extended out of its socket like a conjuror 's string of handkerchiefs . |
| 13 | Ballesteros took world golf by the scruff of the neck and shook it until it reformed into patterns more nearly to his liking . |
| 14 | " Do n't be sorry , " he said , " I quite enjoyed it , " She looked up briefly then , smiling uncertainly , as though she did n't believe him , He licked his lips , moved forward , put one hand out and touched hers where it gripped the glass , She kept looking at the empty glass avoiding his face . |
| 15 | Comfort agreed and enjoyed it when it came , but the sparkle and fun had been taken out of their conversation by the unfortunate choice of the word ‘ gossip ’ . |
| 16 | He suddenly captured her hand and placed it where it had been before , over the steady beat of his heart . |
| 17 | It seemed such a childish thing he 'd allowed to upset him ; a silly woman telling fortunes … but silly or not , she had brushed the truth , and hit him where it hurt . |
| 18 | He worked on the family farm before the First World War ; enlisted in the army and became a captain ; and after the war sank his savings into a clothing store , and lost them when it failed . |
| 19 | He lifted a sock from the floor and pushed it into her mouth , then held a silk blouse out by its cuffs and spun it until it became a rope to hold the gag secure . |
| 20 | And differentiated it and it gave me K T well forget about the K it 's only a number it 's only |
| 21 | Someone had dried it out , unfolded and smoothed it until it resembled a sheet of grubby brown parchment . |
| 22 | Under the English system of parishes every diocese had variety ; that is each parish had the Prayer Book but used it as it thought , with simple or elaborate ceremonial , and with variations of language sanctioned by the ( illegal ) Prayer Book of 1928 if it wished . |
| 23 | Brian had not merely hated the cockerel but feared it since it had got through the fence and bitten him on the leg . |