Example sentences of "it [vb past] [conj] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I know not how it came nor when it began , for it has crept like a thief upon me . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This was before it happened or when it happened ? you did n't have sort of intimations that something was going to happen ? |
| 5 | Erm , until it rained and when it rains |
| 6 | It was a second or two before it opened and when it did her lips parted silently . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It looked as though it had been woven like the baskets which were used to collect tea from the old plantations . |
| 11 | We said god look at this , you know it looked as though it had been painted |
| 12 | It looked as though it went on for ever . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |