Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as the , the cottage er was concerned , the information about that erm the answer was oh well you know I do n't make any money out of it erm you , you asked about whether it , whether it was erm whether it was making money but you di you did n't actually ask , bearing in mind that , that , that Maggie had already said she paid tax , whether she actually de declared it for tax purposes and what , what sort , what sort of figure it showed . |
| 2 | I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed . |
| 3 | It was made more so by the billing he got as if it was the Second Coming or something and he was going to be a wonder player . |
| 4 | Yet this stranger had a different manner altogether from the old doctor who , when he had n't his hearing aid in place , shouted as if it were you who were deaf . |
| 5 | Confusion increased when different industrial tribunals and different divisions of the Employment Appeal Tribunal disagreed about whether it was legitimate under the Act to pursue such claims . |
| 6 | All her attention was on her first bite of bread which tasted as if it had come straight from Paradise . |
| 7 | The fatal , fateful thing was that for a century the device appeared to work : Canada felt and behaved as if it was still part of the empire . |
| 8 | It was strange , the conversation Dad and I had , because when I saw him at home later and over the next few days he behaved as if it had never happened , as if he had n't told me he 'd fallen in love with someone else . |
| 9 | This experiment was quickly followed up by others using protein synthesis inhibitors , all essentially leading to the same conclusion — that if protein synthesis was prevented during the period over which an animal was trained , or for up to about an hour subsequently , then although the animal could learn the task , when tested on it some time later — say the next day — it behaved as if it were naïve . |
| 10 | There was no difference between a chick that was totally full of worms and could n't have handled any more worms , but still as it were , behaved as if it was on the point of starvation , and a chick that was really hungry , had in fact , observation shows that , what parents do when they come back with , with the food is , very often they , they probe the throats of the chicks with their beaks , to see which one 's got much most room before they actually put the food in . |
| 11 | And Caroline , who had never developed the art of flirting , behaved as if it came as naturally to her as breathing . |
| 12 | I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys |
| 13 | She put her bag with the story on the passenger seat and drove as if it were a newborn baby . |
| 14 | All the time , we were making love as we wrote our poems , in a great wave of inspiration and tenderness that seemed as if it could never end . |
| 15 | It almost seemed as if it was moving further away with each stride . |
| 16 | For much of Act I , too , Jonathan Summers 's Posa seemed as if it was to be a rough-and-ready performance by this gifted baritone . |
| 17 | This college seemed as if it was going to be the best thing that happened to me . |
| 18 | It seemed as if it would not be long before a treatment was found for every disease . |
| 19 | Julie 's high-achieving life seemed as if it would continue on its upward curve with her two companies both doing well in a time of recession . |
| 20 | It seemed as if it were coming from a long distance and he waited for a moment , and the moment went into a full minute , and then slowly he opened the door . |
| 21 | Althusser 's procedure has been to show that , within a notion of history that seemed as if it could be invoked on its own as self-evident , there rests an entire presupposition about the conception of the social whole that is not derived from Marxist theory . |
| 22 | Whatever the reasons , a large number of people soon began to work on string theory and a new version was developed , the so-called heterotic string , which seemed as if it might be able to explain the types of particles that we observe . |
| 23 | At first it seemed as if it had happened to someone else , and entertaining on that merit alone . |
| 24 | To Rachel that all now seemed as if it had been in another time , another world and it had only been in the last few days with the reappearance of David Markham that the memories had been revived . |
| 25 | Day after day the German heavies pounded the corpses in this gully , until they were quartered , and re-quartered ; to one eye-witness it seemed as if it were filled with dismembered limbs that no one could or would bury . |
| 26 | We consent to that and your Lordship one direction to help us when we come to calculating interest is one of the earliest figures that your Lordship came to and it was dealing with care to date . |
| 27 | Another view of some civil law courts is that neither set of conditions can apply to the contract ( since the parties manifestly wanted the contract to exist , acted as if it did , but could not agree as to which of their sets of standard conditions should apply to it ) . |
| 28 | More bombs fell , and more , until the air was full of a strange continuous roaring and the earth shook as if it were afraid . |
| 29 | The prison did little to lighten their mood : grey frowning walls with a few sombre buildings peeping above them , and a black gateway with an arch which yawned as if it wished to devour any unfortunate who approached it . |
| 30 | The jewellery at wrist and neck shone as if it were still on display in the shop from which it came , and the odour from the man was simply — nothing . |