Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [subord] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | He only became as it were conscious again when he realised that she was on to another topic . |
| 2 | Porn has never been so loved or so hated as it is now . |
| 3 | The trouble was , it only spoke when it felt like it . |
| 4 | It was obvious that the plane had been repainted before its journey and Whitlock suddenly wondered if it had been done to erase the memories of the previous regime . |
| 5 | I just asked whether it had to be done in here , while I 'm eating . ’ |
| 6 | Yet a regression from those principles soon occurred after it became apparent that the orderly industrial relations which were sought were not being achieved ( Levine , 1958 ; Barkin , 1980 ) . |
| 7 | The smoked-glass doors of Swift were closed and the Mercedes had long ago pulled into the traffic , but she just kept seeing it in her mind , Damian striding along with his arm around the beautiful Domino . |
| 8 | It just felt like it was an orfe day . |
| 9 | We 're not staying outside thought cos it 's cold . |
| 10 | And he just went because it was his father 's funeral . |
| 11 | It just stayed where it was . |
| 12 | As the urchin flexed its bristles I momentarily wondered if it would be edible . |
| 13 | couple of weeks back she got a throat infection , I just wondered whether it had come back . |
| 14 | I just wondered whether it was because the erm men with the red van at the gate there |
| 15 | I just wondered whether it was |
| 16 | I just wondered whether it was important for you to get it out ; apart from any artistic creation , it did something important for yourself ? |
| 17 | And I just wondered if it would ease the discussion if we omitted that particular corridor ? |
| 18 | Erm what it is we 're a press agency working for the national papers and about eighteen months ago we did Em Emma 's story for the Sunday People erm and now I 've just seen the Evening Mail today erm and I 've got , you know the how she 's grown nine inches in the past eighteen months , er and just thought the story might er might take another outing and I just wondered if it was possible f for you to help us contact her er her mother at all ? |
| 19 | Perhaps he had forgotten that the bell would ring or he hardly cared whether it rang or not . |
| 20 | ‘ All right , all right , ’ she quickly agreed as it dawned on her that if he was who she thought he was then she was going about it completely the wrong way if she hoped for an interview . |
| 21 | It makes sense , therefore , to think of the ninth-century West Frankish church , deeply implicated though it was in secular politics , its personnel largely recruited from the indigenous nobility , and often riven by factional rivalries , yet with its own corporate self-consciousness and distinctive goals . |
| 22 | Bob watched her all the way down the stairs , agonized on her behalf ; still more agonized when it occurred to him , just as she went out of sight , that he should have gone down with her and carried the case . |
| 23 | Most of all the fate of Poland illustrated the necessity of strong monarchy and the fatal disunity which usually followed when it was lacking . |
| 24 | I do n't really know why I always went unless it was to remind myself that I too had once come from some other world than the one in which I lived . |
| 25 | His legs were beginning to get twitchy and fidgety , the way they always did when it was particularly important for him to keep them under control . |
| 26 | And here , where we 're standing now , this is the act place where the train always whistled when it came round the bend . |
| 27 | Was he trying to say that they could n't recapture what they once had because it had n't existed ? |
| 28 | Anthony still wondered if it should n't be ‘ are the muscle ’ . |
| 29 | I think he secretly always wondered if it might have been more entertaining . |
| 30 | I also asked if it affected sexual performance . |