Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [vb past] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The women put their heads together and agreed that it would be no bad thing if Loverin laid on hard with his strap . |
| 2 | I filed that away and asked if it was all right for the girls to stay until the doctors had done their rounds . |
| 3 | Last time we went the , the came on and declared that it was your birthday and wished you a very happy birthday and you were standing up there , bouncing up and down . |
| 4 | Eventually , thunder rumbled in the distance , and he looked up and asked if it was gun-fire ; when I said I thought not , he moved to the door saying , ‘ If Mr Colin recommends them , I 'll take all three ’ . |
| 5 | In the opening decades of the 19th century Glasgow woke up and found that it was no longer an ancient market place reached by tree-lined avenues . |
| 6 | Cassie picked it up and found that it was silk , with a bodice of handmade lace ; beautiful and expensive . |
| 7 | She looked out and saw that it was a flock of children , of assorted sizes , and both sexes , ranging from ten to fourteen years of age . |
| 8 | When a young boy , overcome with curiosity , stepped out and prodded the dog 's mouth with a stick , he was grabbed by the arm and hauled back roughly : and when a dog began idly sniffing the body , someone kicked out and shouted and it lurched away through the crowd . |
| 9 | Along at Moness House James Flemyng and his wife looked at each other apprehensively and wondered if it was time to bar the shutters . |
| 10 | Piaget ( Piaget , Jean , The Child ' s Conception of Number , Chapter I , Routledge & Kegan Paul , 1952 ) has described many experiments of this type with children of four years upwards and concluded that it was not until about the age of seven that children were able to see that a quantity of liquid remains constant although it appears to change when poured into different shaped containers . |
| 11 | It went into great detail about how much it would take to start the colliery again and said that it would cost millions of pounds . |
| 12 | When at last a waiter said ‘ Your table is ready , ’ Sara looked at her watch again and found that it was nine-fifteen . |
| 13 | He looked at his watch again and wondered if it was time to intervene . |
| 14 | It was only the events afterwards that proved that it did n't work , but they were n't clear at this time |
| 15 | She snatched a quick glance backward and saw that it was Meredith Wyatt , grinning like a death's-head . |