Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But someone discovered in China that you could put them together and it went off with a bang . |
| 2 | I suppose they 're very good and all in white and very ‘ county ’ like those awful people you got to ask me over and it turned out they were n't expecting me at all and there were four of them anyway . |
| 3 | More than that , and far worse , he is aware that he could not have it for himself even if it did exist . |
| 4 | The theory gives an account of what it is for a belief to be luckily true , as follows : the extent to which a 's belief is luckily true is the extent to which even if it had been false , a would still have believed it , or if it were in changed circumstances still true , he would still believe it . |
| 5 | I 'd make it me business to er yes and course it was to his trade good jobs as he 'd done for customers , had it done so well , they told somebody else and it brought in trade , see what I mean ? |
| 6 | I want to recount an experience that has stayed with me ever since it happened , something that transformed an uneventful journey home from work . |
| 7 | Basically you 'd er just stand back and ha Actually in my platoon of fifty men it happened to me more than it happened to anybody else because I came from Glasgow . |
| 8 | Well I 'd never seen them , I do n't say it turned you on but it made you |
| 9 | If you were aboard a vessel that was either going to go up or drag you down when it sank , what would your natural reaction be ? ’ |
| 10 | I think perhaps that I actually needed to be able to think the worst of you , however personally unpalatable that worst was to me , as some sort of a defence , so that I could despise you even if it meant despising myself as well . |
| 11 | And were you there when it happened ? ’ |
| 12 | It 's absolutely horrible but Malcolm would insist on taking you there because it made him feel part of some secret society . |
| 13 | And you know that at the same time as you could clout them you 'd actually die for them also if it came to the point . |
| 14 | ‘ They appreciated the peace it gave them from the ones who wound them up and it gave us peace . |
| 15 | It was a very hard job holding everything together and it required tremendous dedication from everyone concerned . |
| 16 | I know there was one in but it closed down did n't |
| 17 | She sketched even faster , wanting to get everything down before it began to pour with rain . |
| 18 | But I have n't had one once and it tasted really nice . |
| 19 | So far , she had answered everything scrupulously as it came , but the volume threatened to defeat her . |
| 20 | Edwin Keith gave Bordon a handy lead with two headed goals , but a rare lapse in defence enabled Beaumont to pull one back and it remained 2–1 at the interval . |
| 21 | that one there and it died , mind you it did n't get enough light that was really why |
| 22 | Cardiff had supervised the clearance of the office block , noting wryly that it seemed easier to clear everyone out than it had been to get his original team established . |
| 23 | Punk did n't mean shit to a palm tree to them even if it meant so much to us . |
| 24 | But the existence of these functions does not mean that the towns depended on them exclusively and it did not prevent them from acquiring others from the normal expected range . |
| 25 | This wanting teased him on as it happened — contingent naturalism — to murder . |
| 26 | He had taken the name of Varna from the name of the port from which he had sailed but he had lived his life in terror of deportation , a fear that had haunted him long after it had ceased to be a real threat , so that he had never been able to enjoy his son 's success , seeing it only as something which drew unwelcome attention to the Varna family . |
| 27 | He absently slid his programme nearer to her so that it touched him now , glancing at her out of the corner of his eye . |
| 28 | It coincided with his drawing back from her so that it appeared he was the one to call a halt first . |
| 29 | He loved her deeply and it hurt him badly when he learned the truth about her . |
| 30 | From point-blank range the first bullet hit him in the stomach , doubling him up as it punched a hole just to the left of his navel , ploughing through intestines before lodging close to his spine . |