Example sentences of "[vb past] it [verb] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was too big a puzzle and she let it go although it gnawed away at the back of her mind . |
| 2 | As a matter of fact I heard it stop when it reached the house . ’ |
| 3 | As he drew near they heard the sickening crack of the rod striking flesh ; once , twice they heard it fall but it brought no anguished shout of pain in response . |
| 4 | I could swear I saw it sizzle as it ate through the varnish . |
| 5 | All in all , the people 's party may not have played quite the ace it thought it had when it chose Smith as its leader . |
| 6 | Increasing distance made it shrink as it rose , until at an unimaginable height it was not larger to her eye than a small bird . |
| 7 | What did it matter if it stopped her from sleeping ? |
| 8 | Why did it occur when it did ? |
| 9 | ‘ Did it say if it got everything sorted out ? |
| 10 | He hung his heavy axe and rubber-handled flashlight on nails hammered into the edge of a high shelf , then shrugged his jacket from his shoulders and left it to lie where it fell . |
| 11 | She shrugged it off and left it lying where it fell , in a heap at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 12 | We had it scanned and it came to light the morning after the race . |
| 13 | A PR executive faced with the task of showing the strength of steel-capped safety footwear hired a double decker bus and had it photographed as it drove over the feet of a man wearing the boots . |
| 14 | The surprised way he had looked at her when she said it suggested that it had not occurred to him before . |
| 15 | Because so many people so badly wanted it to succeed when it did they almost believed it was because they had willed it to . |