Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pos pn] [noun sg] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rachel had caught my eye but it seemed her interest was in my master rather than me . |
| 2 | ‘ This is probably the first time a lot of these artists have exhibited their work and it made our job even harder having to eliminate pieces to decide on the final winners . |
| 3 | And we had to come back together because a guest had twisted her ankle and it needed bandaging . ’ |
| 4 | She sometimes thought it had saved her life as it had undoubtedly saved Camille 's . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've got my anorak and it has a hood . |
| 6 | I wanted to meet Marius Durance — I 've always especially admired his work and it seemed crazy to be so close and not come face to face with him . |
| 7 | you 've got your assignment and it has to be done by the end of the week or the end of the fortnight or |
| 8 | By by the third Summer I think it had outlived its usefulness and it had become much more like a a mini-goose fair . |
| 9 | The group , obviously delighted at having someone new in their midst , constantly called her name and it seemed to Rachel that every one of them wanted to throw the ball to her while she , infected by their enthusiasm , was only too happy to join in . |
| 10 | This was the first time he had exercised his authority and it had worked . |
| 11 | It was the first time he had spoken her name and it sounded good . |
| 12 | The two eldest kids are doing as well as they can and are bearing up as best as can be expected , ’ she said ‘ But my youngest boy has n't left my side since it happened . |
| 13 | It had been his only possession when he had fled his home as it burned . |
| 14 | I have to admit that I was expecting something rather special from him , but listening to the first instalment in his survey of the sonatas has only strengthened my opinion that it seems almost impossible for one pianist to attain a consistent level of achievement in all of the sonatas . |
| 15 | The public library has lost its soul because it has been absorbed into the modern semi-literate culture and because it did not have the knowledge and experience gained across generations that the old private libraries had to enable them to cope with the world of mass circulation popular fiction , for example , rather than the People 's University that Hoggart remembers from his youth in the Hunslet district of Leeds . |
| 16 | Rightly , few of the hypotheses examined in this book will stand the test of time but it will have achieved its aim if it provides a foothold for fellow students who also appreciate the need to abandon what may glibly be characterised as the ‘ Beowulf and brooches ’ approach . |
| 17 | Within days I had changed my mind and it seemed that the only sensible form of transport would be a Sherman tank . |
| 18 | The definition can be made more accurate , but not wholly satisfactory by specifying that the other animal must have changed its behaviour because it perceived the signal through its sense organs , and was not physically forced . |
| 19 | At the other extreme , many historians believe that the Labour Party had simply inherited working-class support from the Liberals owing to the fact that trade unions had changed their allegiance when it became obvious that only an independent Labour Party would act in their interests . |