Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ducked under the thief 's sword arm and brought his own blade around in an arc so incompetently misjudged that it hit the man flat-first and jolted out of the wizard 's hand . |
| 2 | ‘ Did you enjoy seeing your father 's studio ? ’ she suddenly asked and it seemed to Jenna that not only did Alain stiffen alarmingly but Marguerite appeared to ice over . |
| 3 | It so happened that it fell to the lot of Geoffrey Holton and Chris Protheroe to do the donkey work in the Lusaka accident , but it could have been any of the twenty or so investigators in AIB . |
| 4 | It so happened that it turned out a good thing that it did n't get posted , but that was just a lucky chance . |
| 5 | But here is a theme already so ravelled that it craves disentanglement . |
| 6 | The trouble was , it only spoke when it felt like it . |
| 7 | He pressed it gently shut and it held ; loosely and with a slight gap , but it held . |
| 8 | The hon. Member for Lancashire , West ( Mr. Hind ) rightly said that it costs more to collect that contribution than it yields . |
| 9 | It was obvious that the plane had been repainted before its journey and Whitlock suddenly wondered if it had been done to erase the memories of the previous regime . |
| 10 | I just asked whether it had to be done in here , while I 'm eating . ’ |
| 11 | We were getting more mileage out of an asset we already owned and it gave the business a wider base to cope with fluctuations in any part of it . |
| 12 | Whilst there are undoubted cultural factors acting on the latency phenomenon , as Freud himself recognized , he nevertheless maintained that it rested on a biological , innate foundation . |
| 13 | Yet a regression from those principles soon occurred after it became apparent that the orderly industrial relations which were sought were not being achieved ( Levine , 1958 ; Barkin , 1980 ) . |
| 14 | He soon remarried and it appears that his second wife had no qualms about sharing the bedchamber with her predecessor . |
| 15 | Erm yeah I th I mean I , I 've got more or less all the points that have been raised but I , I just felt that it went it er it was almost as though you 'd made your mind up before you went in that you were gon na tell him what compressed funds was |
| 16 | I just thought that it seemed to be , you know ? |
| 17 | and , I did n't so much I just thought that it happened to me |
| 18 | He just went or it sounds like . |
| 19 | He just went or it sounds like . |
| 20 | He soon learned that it had come ashore on the island of Cyprus , where the ruler , Isaac Ducas Comnenus , had already seized several survivors from other wrecks and now virtually held Richard 's bride and his sister to ransom . |
| 21 | couple of weeks back she got a throat infection , I just wondered whether it had come back . |
| 22 | Perhaps he had forgotten that the bell would ring or he hardly cared whether it rang or not . |
| 23 | ‘ All right , all right , ’ she quickly agreed as it dawned on her that if he was who she thought he was then she was going about it completely the wrong way if she hoped for an interview . |
| 24 | Apple Computer Inc yesterday announced that it had linked up with France Telecom to offer a version of the Macintosh PowerBook 180 portable to be called the PowerBop , Reuter reports from Paris . |
| 25 | IDB Communications Group Inc reports that its IDB Worldcom unit , yesterday announced that it had signed a correspondent operating agreement with British Telecommunications Plc which allows it to provide international services to the UK ; IDB is in process of acquiring TRT , which took over the resale of capacity on the British Post Office 's phone network from National Networks Ltd . |
| 26 | Far Eastern trader Inchcape Plc yesterday announced that it had taken a 15.3% stake in Gestetner Holdings Plc , the world 's largest independent photocopier dealer , with the support of 29.5% shareholder Ricoh Co Ltd . |
| 27 | Good as its word , Advanced Micro Devices Inc yesterday announced that it has begun shipments of the first members of its Am486 microprocessor family with 33MHz , 40MHz and clock-doubled 50MHz versions , all of them full clones of the Intel Corp 80486 with maths co-processor on board . |
| 28 | LEX Service , the vehicle dealer and automotive components group led by Sir Trevor Chinn , yesterday announced that it has bought the 62 Lucas Autocentres from Lucas Industries for £13 million . |
| 29 | Bob watched her all the way down the stairs , agonized on her behalf ; still more agonized when it occurred to him , just as she went out of sight , that he should have gone down with her and carried the case . |
| 30 | UNITED Biscuits , the Edinburgh-based group which is Britain 's biggest biscuits and snacks manufacturer , yesterday confirmed that it had received a serious approach for its Terry 's chocolate company . |