Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [conj] it [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grunte , who had no idea what the Government 's policy was , or even if it had one , charmingly admitted to his ignorance and invited another question . |
| 2 | My main point is , though , not simply that the Webbs ' own general prospectus was wrong , nor even that it misdirected their appraisal of Owen . |
| 3 | Three DFC 's and one DSO have been won in Sugar , and just as it began its career with a daylight attack , it finished with another . |
| 4 | From what she 'd gleaned from Janine he came and went like a bloody ghost , flitting in and out as it suited him . |
| 5 | Academic English was a recent invention , largely of the inter-war years ; and even where it existed it had commonly stopped with the early nineteenth century . |
| 6 | Not until the second half did Saints show any of their best style and even when it came it was never sustained . |
| 7 | It did not occur to him to look for a seat outside Worcestershire , and even if it had there was little reason why he should have secured one . |
| 8 | However , I could see his logic , which was that not only did it burn about three times as much wood as an enclosed stove but the draught from the chimney sucked up a considerable amount of the underfloor heating , and even though it cost us nothing , it was poor economics . |
| 9 | and that then I thought , and then when it finished I did n't realize it was two parts , you see , and I thought well that 's a funny way |
| 10 | A few minutes later it emerged and flew off and then when it returned it looked at the wall and saw the marks and went inside . |
| 11 | They had hardly ever been in this house belonging to Nicholas , and never since it received its new mistress . |
| 12 | Graham frowned as he passed it , partly at its loud white-lettered tyres and obtrusive styling , but partly because it reminded him of something ; something to do with Slater , with Sara even . |
| 13 | The Guinness takeover of Distillers is studied , not just as an example of a keenly contested takeover , but also as it demonstrated what many saw as the unacceptable sides of takeover activity and the City of London . |
| 14 | John always said that they spent more money restoring the facade than they ever spent on the thousands of workers who worked inside the plant , but then when it closed they could n't knock it down , so they turned it into a superstore . |