Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , just when Rachel was feeling she wanted it to go on forever , this exciting masquerade between the two of them where it seemed as if the rest of the world did n't exist , she found herself beside Danny who began stuttering and waving his arms , obviously trying to tell her something . |
| 2 | If she stretched out her hand just the tiniest bit , she would be able to touch his where it rested on his knee . |
| 3 | He passed the day skulking around cafes , and when Georges met him by chance later on he confessed he 'd been beaten up in his flat because he 'd agreed to do a favour for someone and it had gone wrong . |
| 4 | It was his and it seemed a palace . |
| 5 | She raised her tear-stained face to his and it seemed quite natural to place his lips on has , and since she seemed to welcome it , he kept them there . |
| 6 | ‘ We started off doing everything ourselves but it became too much . |
| 7 | My when it hit the side of the |
| 8 | They let me have one last look and told me that it belonged to someone in another band — which made me feel really guilty . |
| 9 | But , although I hoped very much that he would be here , it seemed to me that it mattered little whether one knew anybody in the camp or not . |
| 10 | We chose retinoic acid because I met a friend , at a meeting , and he told me that it affected cell communication . |
| 11 | Very occasionally she would come and tell me that it had been left so immaculate that she 'd had almost nothing to do and instead would remove some of the dust in the melin for us . |
| 12 | One glance at Hannah 's meadows told me that it had very real prospects because it did not have the lush , emerald green appearance of chemically fertilized land . |
| 13 | A shod note accompanied the card , informing me that it had been found on Oberleutnant Bauer 's body . |
| 14 | And when I asked her what she was doing with it , Emma — or maybe it was Sophie — told me that it had been dropped by two men , who were fighting each other behind some trees on the other side of the park . ’ |
| 15 | A month ago my bank informed me that it had been obliged to arrest £250 of my money to satisfy a court order obtained by sheriff officers . |
| 16 | So these wee things I I knew and er my staff soon found you see that well they just had to go along and do the job as it should be done , you see , and they were no good at kidding me that it had been done , for I used to examine everything that was done you see . |
| 17 | She instantly strode across the shop and took a book from among thousands and assured me that it contained all I would ever need to know about cooking for ever . |
| 18 | They would have married sooner but had to wait for her divorce ; Pamela Chrimes told me that it took some time to obtain the evidence of adultery which was then necessary . |
| 19 | In fact , it never occurred to me that it made a difference until I was in a trial and a scout said ‘ We 're quite interested in the coloured lad ’ and that was the first time I realized they thought of me as anything other than my name . |
| 20 | Orion informs me that it sold 60,000 of the revamped hardback , at £3.99 a copy , even before transmission had started . |
| 21 | Audetto , who was present in the later stages , once denied to me that it transpired entirely as Niki says . |
| 22 | ‘ It seemed to me that it did not please you greatly when you first tasted it . ’ |
| 23 | John assured me that it did n't matter in the least , and amused himself by taxying the machine up and down the runways , testing and running-in the VW engine at the same time . |
| 24 | Her credibility increased when she advised me that it did not really matter whether I believed in homeopathy or not . |
| 25 | She had never farmed before , and she told me that it did not come easy . |
| 26 | It did n't er it is a difficult for me because I do n't have the figures er but er Mr er my assistant who er er did do the detailed work , er tells me that it did n't provide as much traffic relief to the A sixty one as did a western relief . |
| 27 | And she believed me that it did n't match three piece suite or carpet and it was stupid , and that sh and she says what shall I do about them ? |
| 28 | You were standing by the boat , demanding that I let you on board , and I felt such a raw , aching need lance through me that it shocked me . |
| 29 | Like virgins to the sacrificial altar , they followed Molly Malone to the place where it all happened ; where Wrens must learn to live in a men 's world because now the war was nearer to them than it had ever been . |
| 30 | But it had no sooner touched them than it had instantly melted away again . |