Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [subord] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ask for three O eight to be referred or opposed if it is not and that you support motion three O nine as it 's in line with current policy . |
| 2 | During the countless terrifying minutes before she managed to wriggle free and scramble off the bench , Isabel neither knew nor cared whether it was she or his fever that had caused fitzAlan 's loss of consciousness . |
| 3 | And as in uffish thought he stood , The Jabberwock , with eyes of flame , Came whiffling through the tulgey wood , And burbled as it came ! |
| 4 | USL , reportedly working along similar lines ( UX No 383 ) , has declined to comment officially , and asked whether it was developing its own solution or buying the technology in from elsewhere , director of low-end Unix systems , Bill Traber , said ‘ I ca n't answer that . ’ |
| 5 | As a friend of Linde 's , I was rather embarrassed , however , when I was later sent his paper by a scientific journal and asked whether it was suitable for publication . |
| 6 | Elsie joined me on the river bank and asked if it was hot enough for me . |
| 7 | I cheekily went across to a detached cottage and asked if it was possible to get a bite to eat . |
| 8 | Eventually , thunder rumbled in the distance , and he looked up and asked if it was gun-fire ; when I said I thought not , he moved to the door saying , ‘ If Mr Colin recommends them , I 'll take all three ’ . |
| 9 | I filed that away and asked if it was all right for the girls to stay until the doctors had done their rounds . |
| 10 | It had ‘ failed to make my flesh creep ’ , he reports guardedly , in a phrase he was to repeat years later about it in his life of Ronald Knox ( 1959 ) , and failed because it had denied the existence of the soul and omitted all mention of the Church . |
| 11 | and trembled as it fed — |
| 12 | I followed the telephone cord and found where it went into the wall . |
| 13 | Place warm mixture in mixer and beat until it is cold . |
| 14 | It remains true that , apart from the foral provinces , government became more effective , defined , and concentrated as it approached the subject . |
| 15 | This picture of a universe that started off very hot and cooled as it expanded is in agreement with all the observational evidence that we have today . |
| 16 | It is still maintained by the sophisticated falsificationist that theories can be falsified and rejected while it is denied that theories can ever be established as true or probably true . |
| 17 | Maybe we are like a photocopy of God that got a bit crumpled and smudged as it came out of the machine so that his image in us has got a bit spoilt , but that does not alter the fact that every person has something of God about them . |
| 18 | They have seen the smoke and guessed where it is . ’ |
| 19 | McDaid denied any links with the IRA and withdrew after it became clear that the junior partner in the government , the Progressive Democrats ( PDs ) , would not vote for a reshuffle including him . |
| 20 | Now I sat beside her and watched as the cloth was folded and refolded until it became a nubin . |
| 21 | There the microscopic ovum was revealed and followed as it started its monthly journey to await possible fertilisation . |
| 22 | The question is whether or not the document , prepared and signed as it was , satisfies the requirements of the substituted section 9 of the Wills Act 1837 . |
| 23 | It was travelling fast and wobbled as it hit the bumpy piece of road under the railway bridge . |
| 24 | Bernice shook loose the amiable scrap of nothing and watched as it fluttered away , lost in moments in the gentle glow of Moloch 's endless day . |
| 25 | At home I might have fed it to the fish , but here I felt sorry for it and watched until it was time to move on . |
| 26 | That technological effort should be genuinely sought by the business and focused where it will make a significant impact . |
| 27 | Then I went back to my panel-picture and worked until it was time to start the supper . |
| 28 | Notice that we have considered every figure given in the question and decided whether it is relevant or not and which category it falls into . |
| 29 | It is then skimmed and resoaked until it is clean . |
| 30 | Sometimes it thickened and pulsed with blood and felt like it was going to rip something . |