Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] it [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He passed the day skulking around cafes , and when Georges met him by chance later on he confessed he 'd been beaten up in his flat because he 'd agreed to do a favour for someone and it had gone wrong . |
| 2 | In 1650 , the Rump of the Long Parliament replaced the 1648 Blasphemy Act with their own far less harsh legislation , which although it continued to outlaw the extreme beliefs of disruptive fringe groups such as the Ranters , signalled a far more liberal approach on the part of the civil authorities . |
| 3 | There was another reason , of course , but he was not prepared to admit even to himself that it had played any part in his decision . |
| 4 | He clutched it by two handfuls of thick fleece , bracing himself as it tried to lunge forwards . |
| 5 | There remains the question whether , as the applicant contends , the only proper course for the district judge was to postpone the trials of the Barclays ( Asia ) and West L.B. matters until after the conclusion of the B.M.F.L. trial , or at least postpone them until it had become clear whether , and if so when and in what shape , the B.M.F.L. case would proceed . |
| 6 | Without doubt the train was following them and it had passed over several fog detonators without setting them off . |
| 7 | I think that it would place great strain not only on the Comptroller and Auditor General and his staff but on the budget of the Public Accounts Commission itself if it had to authorise such expenditure . |
| 8 | After the war the industry was too depressed to re-equip itself as it had done in 1804 . |
| 9 | Held , allowing the appeal and substituting a period of postponement not to exceed six months ( Sir George Waller dissenting ) , that for the purposes of making an order for sale in favour of a trustee in bankruptcy under s. 30 of the Law of Property Act 1925 no distinction was to be made between a case where a property was being enjoyed as the matrimonial home and one where it had ceased to be so used ; that where a spouse , having a beneficial interest in such property , had become bankrupt , the interests of the creditors would usually prevail over the interests of the other spouse and a sale of the property ordered within a short period ; that only in exceptional circumstances , more than the ordinary consequences of debt and improvidence , could the interests of the other spouse prevail so as to enable an order for sale to be postponed for a substantial period ; and that , accordingly , since the circumstances of the wives and their children , albeit distressing , were not exceptional , the order sought by the trustee should be made . |
| 10 | It was something that it had happened at all . |
| 11 | A number of explanations suggest themselves for this strange impulse towards self-effacement in men who loved power , besides the official one that it served to maintain the standing of the native authorities in the eyes of the people . |
| 12 | ‘ But it shows she was trying everything and it did put an end to the sightings at that time . ’ |
| 13 | It was as if she had said something and it had caused a click in his mind that brought down the shutters to keep her out . |
| 14 | I had a cream one and it got wrecked by going I think Neil put it in the wash with one of his black T-shirts . |
| 15 | I 've only got this one , I had a cream one and it got wrecked by going , I think Neil put it in the wash with one of his black tee shirts , and |
| 16 | and we came to look at this one and it had got an inner hall and in the position was |
| 17 | The use of ‘ opens ’ was a paradoxical one as it seemed to address the unacknowledged absence of black women in white feminist discourses which encouraged women to re-see , re-read and re-invent lives and histories . |
| 18 | This view angered me because it seemed to judge everything in purely monetary terms . |
| 19 | She could n't tell him that it had aroused her ; that the smarting of her breasts and belly and buttocks had combined to generate an absurd pleasure ; that the gentle scourging of her flesh had stimulated a tide of salaciousness ; that she was enjoying it . |
| 20 | Later in the day she was busy again when the Intelligence Officer informed her that it had become necessary for a UDR soldier and his family to move from their present house . |
| 21 | He found a rusty man-trap in a cupboard — an evil contraption of chains and springs and teeth — and assured her that it had taken the leg off more than one poacher in its day . |
| 22 | She said she had seen the programme and wondered if it had spoiled anything for me , but I was able to reassure her that it had improved my life . |
| 23 | I seemed to have no value for him and it began to feel like a kind of death . |
| 24 | In the heat of the moment he had wanted her but it had meant nothing after all . |
| 25 | The question did not appear to surprise her but it did surprise him , as did the very fact that they were walking so companionably together . |
| 26 | Lydia woke early the following morning and went out to wash in the stream , feeling it was brave and somewhat magnanimous of her after it had treated her so ill on the previous night . |
| 27 | This comforted him as it had comforted him half a dozen times this afternoon , but his mind remained basically uneasy . |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , ’ Frau Nordern sat bolt upright and gave Marx her commanding glare which , however , did not have quite the same effect on him as it had done on the Duty Officer . |
| 29 | How was it that it had taken him so long to see Parry 's daughter thus clearly ? |
| 30 | The council grew so tired of lorries cutting this corner short and hitting the casement of the listed building next to it that it had to build a specially high kerb . |