Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It stopped abruptly when it saw Rosie , an uncertainty shadowing its haunted eyes . |
| 2 | I say that I do n't know who the van belonged to , but it drove past when it saw me with the police . |
| 3 | But the Escort did n't stop , it came on until it blocked the road completely and before I could react , my door had been pulled open and a warrant card thrust in my face . |
| 4 | It came nearer and it did n't sound right . |
| 5 | So it came in and it went round |
| 6 | It climbed slightly as it neared us — so that he could see the indicator lights on the roof rack of the car , I suppose — then it dipped a wing and dropped abruptly to the ice . |
| 7 | Well , we thought he 'd gone out , but apparently he must have got to the door just as the bomb landed , and the blast blew the door backwards , er the door inwards , knocked me dad backwards and at the back of him we had a cellar , but it went through this , the cellar door and although it turned round before it went down the cellar , he finished up down there because we did n't know this til after a while that me brother wou did n't offer to go out , so I went out think , to find where me dad was you see . |
| 8 | I wanted to go there , but it turned out that it did n't exist any more . |
| 9 | My family were n't wealthy , could n't have afforded to send me away till it was over , could n't have kept it secret , so perhaps it 's just as well it turned out as it did . |
| 10 | They 're bound to take to Filmer too , you know how civilized he can seem , and I do n't suppose news of the trial got much attention here since it collapsed almost before it began . |
| 11 | It knew somehow that it belonged there , not here , and when thunder boomed in the sky it heard that thunder in its newly transmogrified body . |
| 12 | She goes when she was born either he was chewing some chewing gum and it fell out and it went ins caught in your mum 's prinny and it glued it together See you tomorrow dudes . |
| 13 | Oh Daddy I went into the upstairs bathroom and turned on the light , it went on and it went ping and then turned off again . |
| 14 | And then soon after it went off and it 's never come on since . |
| 15 | You see the tractor driving it , there 's the load , this was gathering up the hay as it went along and it tipped it over and we had to make the loads you see . |
| 16 | KKR said that if Hillsborough could not refinance the debt it took on when it launched a $2.4billion leveraged takeover in the building industry , it might have to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy . |
| 17 | Put bluntly , it did so because it failed to convince enough people it could deal with the Conservative legacy and had a plausible philosophy of wealth creation of its own . |
| 18 | In so far as the system worked — some disputes were settled , some crimes fully atoned for — it did so because it accommodated to the plastic and multifarious notions of justice obtaining within a small group of men , known to each other from youth up , often related by marriage , who had to reckon on continuing to live as neighbours after the case was over . |
| 19 | It seemed bigger than the sun and it sailed with a peculiar swiftness up into the heavens , growing paler and brighter as it did so until it lit up the plain with a dull , yellow light . |
| 20 | He glanced round again , but the Thing , the Beast , the Monster , or whatever it was , was hidden from his sight by the smoke it shot out as it galloped forward . |
| 21 | In 1990 it came of age , in 1991 it carried on where it left off with a superb Easter opening at a cold and windy Donington Park , England … |