Example sentences of "it [vb past] [verb] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 It started to rain as it grew dark outside .
2 Where it lay hidden and it proved kind .
3 ‘ We are just at a point if we have anything to say , we really could not , ’ the company told Reuter , but it did say that it had hired Morgan Stanley & Co as its ‘ financial consultant , ’ along with Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette , but declined to say whether the investment banks are underwriters for a stock offering .
4 Must remember that phrase : he could see it had struck and it struck him too : he paused to give it the silent applause of a mute punctuation .
5 " It had killed before it met us , " said Blackberry with a shudder .
6 It had survived because it had got a metallic thread running through it .
7 Eighteen months ago it gave up its monopoly of politics but it continued to exist and it continued really as a kind of dog in the manger to prevent the er establishment of normal multi-party politics .
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