Example sentences of "[coord] it [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or it did until rock'n'roll started to get self-conscious , and the fashion industry took over . |
| 2 | It was agreed this was not easy to do and it illustrated that deciding whether pupils had attained a long list of criteria would be a very considerable task . |
| 3 | Oh at any rate , he they started rebidding and then of course it went and went and it fell and then this Mr gave up and whoever the other one was , Do n't remember who he was . |
| 4 | Tragedy involves the past , and it arose when the Greek awareness of time was becoming clearer and stronger . |
| 5 | It concerned a contract to provide a made-to-measure set of teeth and it arose because they did not fit . |
| 6 | The commission considered that ‘ no producer should be entitled to rid himself of all responsibility for the waste simply by handing it over to a contractor for disposal ’ , and it recommended that the duty should be enshrined in legislation . |
| 7 | Going concern was one of the areas the Cadbury Committee considered , and it recommended that the accountancy profession , together with representatives of preparers of accounts , should develop guidance on the subject for both companies and auditors . |
| 8 | The death of Jock Lewes was keenly felt and it meant that Stirling was down to only one officer besides himself , assuming that Fraser was missing . |
| 9 | The ‘ p and q ’ stands for ‘ peace and quiet ’ , and it meant that she could be totally on her own . |
| 10 | I was one of her daisies and it meant that we had all these hats on , which were very unattractive — a rubber hat and on top was the daisy , so when you swam around and the people looked down at you , they just saw these daisies . |
| 11 | 160 to the end of the second century , and it meant that these defences could not possibly have been erected before AD 160 . |
| 12 | This was a relief as his coughing at night had irritated us , and it meant that Alex could stop hitting him with a broom handle when he woke us up . |
| 13 | Yes I think that over the course of our married life we had a number of moves for various reasons , generally to improve the accommodation , erm as standard of life increased so the desire to have a better house to live in or rather in those days a house was out of the question , we generally had rooms in a house , erm , they , the flat for instance that we were bombed out from was a basement flat , erm according to the estate agents it was a garden flat , erm and it meant that you had access to the front garden and the back garden , but as for being a garden flat it was below the level of the garden in the front and at the back it was on the level with the erm green grass at the back of the house , it was also along side of the trolley bus depot , so there it was considerably noisy , nevertheless it was a self contained flat , the first one we 'd had , no the second one we 'd had and we were perfectly happy there although of course it did have minor difficulties , the fact that you used the front door with people who had flats on the other remaining three floors , but nevertheless it did involve you in a certain amount of community living , you were aware of your neighbours , you had to be very conscious of them and they were very conscious of you . |
| 14 | And it meant that jobs you 'd already got planned |
| 15 | And it meant that I had free access to the whole of the so much so , I had a key to the bottom of entry in er access to the firm and I could get in when I liked . |
| 16 | She kept her eyes steadily on the glass , and now the power was concentrating itself in one small part of each eye and growing stronger and stronger and it felt as though millions of tiny little invisible arms with hands on them were shooting out of her eyes towards the glass she was staring at . |
| 17 | Anyway , I just held her , and it felt like she 'd broken , could n't take any more , then she kissed me . |
| 18 | What it boiled down to was : there was here , where he had friends and family , or there was London where he had a few friends and a lot of contacts , and it felt like things were happening , and where you could fill time with something no matter how mixed up and fraudulent you felt … or there was abroad , of course ; the rest of the world ; India ( to take the most extreme example he 'd found so far ) , where you felt like an alien , lumbering and self-conscious , materially far more rich and spiritually far more poor than the people who thronged the place , where just by that intensity of touching , that very sweating crowdedness , you felt more apart , more consigned to a different , echoing place inside yourself . |
| 19 | It saw monetary growth stalling and it feared that the American recovery might stall too . |
| 20 | Last August BML called on publishers to submit a smaller , more selective number of titles , and it announced that it was compiling a ‘ top title ’ list for the winter sale . |
| 21 | And it looked like he was of bureaucracy , but what he was trying to perfectly valid point , that he could n't actually make the final decision . |
| 22 | Hodge equalised Gannon 's second-minute goal in the eighth minute , and it looked as though the game was heading for a draw . |
| 23 | But then a lot of them fancied their chances that year — Peter Oosterhuis , Nick Faldo , and so on , and Bobby Clampett led for a while and it looked as though they might not be able to catch him . |
| 24 | Batty 's right ankle was still swollen yesterday and it looked as though he would need a miracle cure to make the second leg of the European Cup tie . |
| 25 | Dawn on Monday morning shone only a bleak grey light over Moscow and it looked as though the weathermen would be right in their prediction of rain by midday . |
| 26 | They continued riding through the afternoon , by which time the dull cloud above their heads had become unbroken , and it looked as though they were in for a wet night . |
| 27 | And it looked as though you 'd bought something rather than been to the pawnshop . |
| 28 | Alan Knight made a stunning reflex save from Phillips five minutes from time and it looked as though Boro were on the way out . |
| 29 | The following afternoon — i.e. the day the Germans made their most menacing gains — he telephoned that the attack had ‘ slowed down and it looked as though we would be able to hold out and even make a counter-attack ’ . |
| 30 | All I could do was write a letter , and by the time I 'd written a letter and it got where it was going and a reply got back , a week or two weeks could have gone by . |