Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] it [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , art history only begins after the death of the work , but as long as the work lives , or at least in the first fifty years of its life , it communicates with people living in the same period who have accepted it or rejected it and who have talked about it . |
| 2 | Or repainted it or redone anything to it . |
| 3 | Somebody must have sat on it , or pulled it or |
| 4 | M : it is — it is quite good they 've certainly kept within the + em + + preserved it reasonably well or conserved it but we were up in Aberdeen this year for a holiday and we were staying right within the University complex there in Old Aberdeen+ and + oh some of the buildings there are beautiful really they really are nice + but er I was quite impressed with it — it 's the first holiday we 've had up there + |
| 5 | Edward Shils contended that " pluralistic politics ' was " marked … by the moderation of political involvement " , and prohibited emotional intensity " .37 Others went further still , and suggested that political apathy might " reflect the health of democracy " ( Lipset ) , or praised it as " a more or less effective counter-force to the fanatics who constitute the real danger to liberal democracy " . |
| 6 | Longings that led it where it went |
| 7 | I said to Bev erm do n't mean to say , I mean I might get home and find she 's got a phone call but she said to me yes I mean we , she did think of going out yesterday , and it was me that stopped it but if I feel so inclined today we 'll go down if she 's in |
| 8 | The objective of this association was to promote the adoption of the instruction of deaf children not through the use of sign language or any method that used it as then prevailed in many countries including the U.S.A. and Britain , but through oral methods to the total exclusion of sign language altogether . |
| 9 | But for the framework , she no more feared nor doubted it than she did the position of the stars in the sky . |
| 10 | The wind coursed over it and flapped it — little whip noises that stirred it and made it seem alive , the dog-face scowling . |
| 11 | To see which variables were related to a subject recalling a junction , point biserial correlations were calculated with each junction being scored as a 1 for a subject that recalled it and 0 for a subject that did not . |
| 12 | but I mean they were n't you know and I mean someone we did n't even know at all , so er you know all erm but I mean Lionel sat with the guy that organized it and the bus driver so he did n't feel out of it , you know , |
| 13 | says that I was the one that killed it and I did n't . |
| 14 | I was the one that killed it and I did n't . |
| 15 | I was the one that killed it and I did n't . |
| 16 | I said there were the that county record form and this man asked me from the museum that handled it if he could send them back to erm to Wiltshire . |
| 17 | I thought that covered it but , it may not do . |
| 18 | I like to think it was the gun in my bunker that hit it and forced the pilot to turn tail and dump his bombs . |
| 19 | if they had the well because nobody came forward from the working class through it , it was the intellectuals that started it and gathered the |
| 20 | But it was n't our girls that did it and I am going to prove it . ’ |
| 21 | it was he that choose it , it was he that wanted it and you see it 's just worked out that he did n't use it . |
| 22 | Now just imagine the outcry if Council had the power to close down every organisation , stop funding every organisation that criticised it and reviewed its actions . |
| 23 | It was the free window sticker that pushed it but … |
| 24 | One of the horses whiffled a protest and shuffled a hoof , dragging slightly at the tether that held it and its fellow securely fastened to the single lamp-post , which imperfectly lit the inn yard , its small flame dancing as the glass about it shook in the uncertain weather . |
| 25 | ‘ Finally on the seventh day , I thought that , being Catholic , they 'd rest , but still unfed and unwatered , each pony was blindfolded and tacked up , and Raimundo got on each one 's back , and whipped it and whipped it out into the pampas , until the pony 's spirit was completely broken , and it 'll never argue with man again . |
| 26 | Lyn put a cloth on a tray and laid it and on an impulse picked a small blue iris and put it in a vase to go on the tray as well . |
| 27 | She ran out and posted it before she could change her mind . |
| 28 | Victor breathed on the glass in his hand , and buffed it until it gleamed . |
| 29 | Now you 're gon na get on and read it and you can report back in ten minutes and I do n't want any questions . |
| 30 | I will send you a copy before it actually goes off and read it and ring me aft if if there 's anything you do n't understand or you do n't agree with okay ? |