Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [conj] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had no intention just then of attempting such a thing , but as I lay awake that night I realised that if it had n't been for Lili I might have felt it necessary to attempt to describe to someone , anyone , what I knew of God and what he had asked of me . |
| 2 | all the satellites hanging down it was very good the way it had all been done in , in that respect but what I found was the first bit was very boring , I found but when it got going a bit it was better but the whole moral of the story was that nowhere is perfect to live but it 's hard for y young children like this |
| 3 | ‘ I felt guilty enough to want to help the marriage succeed because I 'd introduced them and had n't thought to warn Rachel , mainly because I did n't find him attractive myself and he 'd never come across as the great seducer with me , and I knew that if it did n't work , it would turn out to be a lifelong trap for her . |
| 4 | Then I hugged her again and pushed her through the door because I thought that if it lasted any longer I would cry . |
| 5 | I thought that if it went into a joint account , I had to pay tax on half of three four four five . |
| 6 | I , I bought that when it come out about two years ago . |
| 7 | Those of us who support the European Community and the Single European Act ( which I voted for as it stands ) reject his misleading allegation that we think ‘ democracy is at risk through our continued membership of the European Community ’ . |
| 8 | I said that whereas it does make sense to talk of being mistaken about presentation appearances it does not make sense to talk of being mistaken about perceived-as appearances . |
| 9 | And so whenever she imagined this scene , she knew that when it came to the visitor 's question she would capitulate and declare against her wishes , against her desire : ‘ Yes . |
| 10 | That implied being carefree , and she felt as though it had been decades since she had felt that way , and it had nothing whatsoever to do with Jonathan . |
| 11 | They felt that if it set the wages of very poor people , the next thing it would do would be to start setting the wages of trade unionists . |
| 12 | Cos they advertised when before it became illegal to advertise . |
| 13 | Yet , if he was honest , he found that when it came right down to it , he wanted to call the shots , not have them called . |
| 14 | Entry to this body was much sought after by wealthy young men , because of the prestige it conferred and because it guaranteed proximity to the Emperor . |
| 15 | I know not how it came nor when it began , for it has crept like a thief upon me . |
| 16 | For a moment it seemed as though it had tapped some hidden reserve of strength and would ease itself up on to the opposite bank , and escape into the forest . |
| 17 | This was before it happened or when it happened ? you did n't have sort of intimations that something was going to happen ? |
| 18 | Erm , until it rained and when it rains |
| 19 | It was a second or two before it opened and when it did her lips parted silently . |
| 20 | My stomach turned over as I watched the ball heading for the out-of-bounds , but to my relief it looked as though it had stayed in , even if it seemed in an awful spot . |
| 21 | I gave myself a brisk tub down with a towel — when I saw it in daylight it looked as though it had been run over by a lorry on a muddy building site — and changed every stitch of clothing . |
| 22 | It would er but as I 've already said the bed looked made er totally un-slept in it looked as though it had just been made up from new and un-slept in which is why I took that course of action . |
| 23 | It looked as though it had been woven like the baskets which were used to collect tea from the old plantations . |
| 24 | We said god look at this , you know it looked as though it had been painted |
| 25 | It looked as though it went on for ever . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ there must be something in the nature of a criminal intent of the kind which means that it is done with the idea of some form of hostility to the police with the intention of seeing that what is done is to obstruct , and that it is not enough merely to show that he intended to do what he did and that it did in fact have the result of the police being obstructed . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I saw exactly what he did and if it had n't been for Stuart those thieves would have got away . |
| 28 | He never ceased to wonder at the irony of expecting miracles from a reliquary in which her bones had once lain for only three days and nights , before being returned reverently to her native Welsh earth ; and even more to be wondered at , the infinite mercy that had transmitted grace through all those miles between , forgiven the presence of a sorry human sinner in the coffin she had quitted , and let the radiance of miracle remain invisibly about her altar , unpredictable , accessible , a shade wanton in where it gave and where it denied , as the stuff of miracles is liable to be , at least to the human view . |