Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb past] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , at least , is the view of Gair ( 1978 ) , who reports that a Gallup Poll in May 1978 showed that 40 per cent of Americans did not know that the United States imported oil at all , and that hardly any of them knew that it imported about half its crude oil and refined products at that time . |
| 2 | A divorced friend of mine said that it took her about a year to reach the breakthrough . |
| 3 | That 's what John said last night , we er , all they , all went to bingo five of us went and it boomeranged well if you 're going I 'll come , if I 'm going you 're going I 'm going and the next thing poor old John had to go out and work look after about eleven kids |
| 4 | The headlights of the taxi-van behind us flashed as it hit bumps in the road and the interior lit up the faces of the men in the van with me . |
| 5 | She had believed him even now , even after what had happened and was happening , when he had said that his love for her remained as it had ever been , something eternal . |
| 6 | I pumped one through today on something lost and it does give you an immediate link to , a written link . |
| 7 | But down it went and it stayed down . |
| 8 | Sir , I apologise , I was going by this figure made by which indicated that it expired on the thirty first of March , I think and in fact , that is a an error on the officer 's part it would appear from the licensing authorities in fact , it expired at the end of May . |