Example sentences of "[vb past] it [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it moved it creaked and crackled , an old tree moving over crisp leaves . |
| 2 | When this body , which was composed of an independent chairman and two representatives from both sides , eventually reported it suggested that there should be no change in conditions and wages in the industry . |
| 3 | It was too big a puzzle and she let it go although it gnawed away at the back of her mind . |
| 4 | She let it soak while she searched again among the water colours . |
| 5 | He let it fall and they ran down through the field after Caspar . |
| 6 | but he let it lapse because |
| 7 | However , in some of the cases that he mentioned it appears that there must have been some error , or they would have been dealt with more promptly . |
| 8 | Every time he walked that 's him come back again and every time he stopped it stopped and this happened a few times and he was very scared and he thought he had better go and see what the noise was and anything well it was just a pet sheep tangled up in its tether . |
| 9 | This claim was widely debated because Malthus used it to suggest that poverty and starvation were inevitable . |
| 10 | She found it unsurprising that her lodgers , with the exception of Mr Landor , assumed she was Italian , especially if their own command of the Italian language was weak . |
| 11 | Constance could not decide whether or not his diffidence sprang from fear or indifference , and she found it puzzling that someone as confident as Nicky in every other area of his life should be so timid when it came to love . |
| 12 | Its skirt was so full that the slightest movement caused it to swirl and lift about her legs . |
| 13 | The Americans assumed it meant that Saddam was there . |
| 14 | It was not my little money and the confidence he erroneously imagined it engendered that came briefly to his rescue , but my blind passion for him . |
| 15 | He replied that on the facts stated it appeared that the testator wanted by trust to release Seius from all liability to that debt . |
| 16 | He claimed it suggested that ‘ no decent person should be seen with her , let alone spend a family holiday with her ’ . |
| 17 | The capacity of a body corporate with which the International Tin Council had been bestowed by the English Parliament allowed it to acquire and hold property , and to perform other actions in its own name . |
| 18 | Measures during September to enforce the trade embargo at sea included ( i ) US action on Sept. 4 to stop the Iraqi freighter Zanubia , carrying tea from Sri Lanka , which was re-routed without the cargo being impounded ; ( ii ) the searching of the tanker Faur in the Gulf of Oman on Sept. 14 ; ( iii ) warning shots fired on Sept. 27 by a US naval vessel prior to the boarding by US Marines of the Iraqi tanker Tadmur , which was allowed to proceed after it was verified that it carried no cargo ; and ( iv ) the first UK action , on Sept. 30 , when HMS Jupiter stopped an Indian merchant vessel , Akebar , off Qatar , on its return from delivering humanitarian food supplies , but allowed it to proceed after it was found to be carrying refugees and was declared free of contraband . |
| 19 | Without a word she folded it shut and laid the pencil flat beside it . |
| 20 | But erm , sometimes they have n't covered it completely , or do n't understand it , they 've just ticked it , and signed it to say that they know what they 're doing . |
| 21 | Billie heard Jenny knock on Adam 's door , heard it open and close again . |
| 22 | As a matter of fact I heard it stop when it reached the house . ’ |
| 23 | I heard it scrape as it was lifted away and his voice sang out . |
| 24 | As he drew near they heard the sickening crack of the rod striking flesh ; once , twice they heard it fall but it brought no anguished shout of pain in response . |
| 25 | She had only read the word before , in cold and aseptic print , never heard it spoken except in heat by rough farmworkers who did not realise she was walking by . |
| 26 | Indeed , once a psychic has become established it seems that nothing — not the most detailed confession , not the most damning exposure — can dent the confidence of believers-And , not content with continuing to believe the evidently fraudulent , they do their very best to draw the exposers into the net . |
| 27 | She stopped , raised her head , and tracked it left and right , like a robot searching out its target . |
| 28 | There , scientists who examined it declared that it was a giant squid-one of the largest ever found . |
| 29 | From the small number of neonatal stomachs examined it seems that the distribution of parietal cells remains constant after birth , and so it appears reasonable to assume that a definite change in distribution of parietal cells must occur during the third trimester . |
| 30 | Unlike the noise made by the strummers who called it pop or country , his was serious music . |