Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second hand had stopped where it had met the pin inserted near the 55-second mark . |
| 2 | While I was struggling to stop it , frost was formed where it struck my already cold hand . |
| 3 | But in July Mary of Guise was able to fight back more successfully , and at the end of the month the two sides made another truce , by which Edinburgh was to be free to choose its religion , and Catholic observance was not to be reinstated where it had been suppressed . |
| 4 | His thick black curly hair seemed to grow around his head like a crown , leaving his forehead exposed where it had receded . |
| 5 | a similar point arose where it proposed to serve the writ and an Anton Piller order out of the jurisdiction on a Belgian company . |
| 6 | I followed the telephone cord and found where it went into the wall . |
| 7 | Instead it is thought Meiko will use the Fujitsu Ltd VP single-chip vector processor for floating point operations alongside the Texas Instruments Inc Viking SuperSparc for scalar operations , although Meiko has said that Cypress Semiconductor Corp 's HyperSparc will be considered once it became available ( UX No 385 ) , and that the i860 could work with the new architecture if required . |
| 8 | It took longer for the territories with loud speakers to be occupied than it did for the silent territories ( Figure 6.2 ) . |
| 9 | That occurred although it took up a large slice of their already-depleted income , and they also ran the risk of getting lung cancer and other smoking related diseases , and placed the health of their children in jeopardy . |
| 10 | In 1978 , when the factory moved , the union was officially dissolved although it continued to function secretly . |
| 11 | ‘ For my part I believe the African Jesus would have won if it had not been for the Dark Host . |
| 12 | It could be like the mysterious caller on the telephone to Mr Wallace requesting the visit to Qualtrough Avenue : you just did not know if it existed at all . |
| 13 | Extensive stretches of the walls of his nave have been traced on each side of the existing nave , although we do not yet know if it had an aisle along each flank . |
| 14 | Gourlay agreed : ‘ There 's no doubt I did n't play well after that opening set — I do n't know if it upset me — I suppose subconsciously it must have . ’ |
| 15 | Mr Ashdown reaffirmed his willingness to be flexible and to compromise if it came to negotiating with a minority government of either hue . |
| 16 | Women who I had attacked for bringing up boy children wanted to know if it had been an immaculate conception or simply parthenogenesis , and what was I going to do with it if it were a boy ? |
| 17 | Dad said I should wait until it stopped snowing so hard , so I watched from the window , and before very long it did ease and I was sent down the cellar for the fuel . |
| 18 | Steve asked reproachfully as if he did n't want to get blamed if it had n't . |
| 19 | Marie scrambled out of the sand-hills and ran along the bank , crashing her way through the tall , razor-edged grass , not minding if it cut her hands . |
| 20 | I would like to see the earth grow and everything in the earth grow until it touched the skids of heaven , and no one could be dead . |
| 21 | Either in principle , or in detailed allocation , but would n't object if it went somewhere else . |
| 22 | There must be some height , call it h , such that an animal would just break its neck if it fell from that height , but would just survive if it fell from a slightly lower height . |
| 23 | sparkling and looked like it had n't been touched , and I could n't believe it . |
| 24 | She was muddy , her dress torn , her hair looked like it had been combed with a hedge , but she crackled with so much internal power that she was nearly throwing off sparks . |
| 25 | ‘ At Doncaster the buffet was closed , the waiting room looked like it had n't been cleaned for three months , the staff locked themselves in a room and every time we heard an engine and dashed out it was pulling coal wagons . ’ |
| 26 | Stan might truly have forgotten if it had not been for the crash of the falling chair . |
| 27 | Sleep would have come if it had not been for Hugh 's tossing and moaning . |
| 28 | Sleep would have come if it had not been for Hugh 's tossing and moaning . |
| 29 | Are there erm , insurances in force covering the property , say if it caught fire , etcetera ? |
| 30 | Some say if it rained you could fish in a footprint , |