Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [verb] [pron] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It hurt enough to frighten her and she was not a woman easily frightened . |
| 2 | In September 1991 it had effectively dissolved itself when new union structures were created after the failed coup [ see p. 38415 ] . |
| 3 | The reporter , Mick Brown , followed this story with exemplary tact , or , put it another way , as if it had never struck him that he was talking to loonies . |
| 4 | But it had never struck me that it was something he would notice . |
| 5 | It had always astonished him that his children were not afraid of her ; now he saw that it was the gulf of the generation between them . |
| 6 | It had always distressed him that the West and the Eastern bloc could both budget so generously for what he considered to be the evils of the nuclear industry while millions in the Third World were left wanting for food . |
| 7 | It had obviously escaped them that their pun was something of a contradiction in terms ! |
| 8 | It had suddenly struck her that he was a stranger in the town , and might have nowhere to go . |