Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The long day passed slowly and it grew very hot . |
| 2 | And when it was n't working on the farm a transport on the back and a bag of straw to sit on and it became the family 's personal transport . |
| 3 | a lovely cottage , thatched roof cottage they lived in and it had an apple tree in the front , and a pear tree down the back , and all fruit trees . |
| 4 | The Giral government , consisting entirely as it did of bourgeois Republicans , was increasingly irrelevant to the new situation . |
| 5 | Weaker areas are exposed dramatically when the market turns down as it did during 1992 . |
| 6 | Innumerable times a whole Christian community has broken down because it had sprung from a wish dream . |
| 7 | The Chinese also knew another archaic type of water-clock , a floating bowl with a hole in its base that was adjusted so that it took a specific time to sink . |
| 8 | In the stunned silence George Felse got up , without speaking , and crossed the room to where Gus 's jacket hung on the back of a chair , turned towards the replenished fire , and steamed gently as it dried . |
| 9 | One rather exciting will home made will I hasten to add I dealt with last year , the lady of some who was not getting on with her husband and I think although I 'm not absolutely sure that the handwriting is that of her sister and we have this form filled in and it mentioned the bank or special savings account and it mentioned the premium bonds and it mentioned everything in the back bedroom and the linen in the linen and the linen cupboard because she 'd brought all this lot and it failed to appoint an executor and it failed to deal with the residuary estate it meant that technically there was a partial intestacy , as there was a partial intestacy the rules applied to that , first person to inherit ? |
| 10 | A bedcradle was placed so that it relieved the weight of the bedclothes from her legs . |
| 11 | In other words , if precedent was followed , the package of budget cuts would be attacked piecemeal when it disappeared into the congressional maze ; even though there might be general agreement on the need to cut the budget , vested interests operating through sympathetic members could , one by one , weaken or restore specific cuts . |
| 12 | In case of doubt the court has to guess what meaning Parliament would have picked on if it had thought of the point . |
| 13 | The back row simply carried on where it left off against the Welsh with the indestructible McBride , Robinson and O'Hara repeatedly first to the breakdown . |
| 14 | After his return to the ward Mr Reynolds ' temperature rose slowly until it reached 37 C. On the first post-operative morning his temperature was above normal limits ( 37.8 C ) . |
| 15 | According to Judge Abraham Sofaer , Brunei was picked especially because it received no assistance already , and would seem to be returning no favours ; it was never intended to get anything beyond appreciation . |
| 16 | It was perfectly clear to everyone that the company could carry on enough trade to flourish only if it supplemented its income by bringing in more goods than its treaty permitted , and the smuggling trade became large enough to disturb the Spanish authorities . |
| 17 | Like so many other worthwhile benefits , it seems destined to wither away year by year , even though the benefit that it replaced , the widow 's allowance , would have been uprated annually if it had continued . |
| 18 | The game from that period looks just as it did when the original agreement was concluded — because of the infinite horizon assumption every subgame is identical to the original game — and so if it was in the firms ' interests to negotiate that agreement initially it will be in their interests now to renegotiate that agreement . |
| 19 | Well I sent it to the B B C , I sent it to Duncan but I also sent it to the the Lady a shorter version to the Lady their competition and I said their competition was gon na be on the eighteenth in their issue they would give the names of the of the winners , but I had looked in the Lady yesterday in Smiths and there was none of nothing about it , but I do n't think I 've won anyway because it said you 'd be notified by post so . |
| 20 | Then when we finished and come out we er there was such a commotion in the street while we were in there taking aircraft spotting a , a German aircraft had come over and it had dropped a bomb on the gasworks had the plane , and we had known nothing about it . |
| 21 | Lamprey was reading the second , and so far no word had come downstairs that it had been rejected . |
| 22 | This result was particularly striking when junctions were considered individually and it became clear that this relationship was at least partly independent of the amount of time spent at the junction , number of vehicles seen and the judgment of estimated risk made at the same time . |
| 23 | Because if I 'd have come home and it 'd been a mess I would have had a face the longest of all ! |
| 24 | The car engine roared again and the red car moved off but it did n't go far . |
| 25 | Gazzer 's head was wrenched up until it crashed into the back of the seat . |
| 26 | As Adele had pointed out , even men of integrity could behave differently when it came to women . |
| 27 | He said when Mr McKay 's sick note was sent in it was not picked up that it had anything to do with the accident . |
| 28 | Bookings of the ten-year package , fixed at 8.99 per cent for those borrowing up to 90 per cent , have been steady since its launch and have picked up since it featured in Money Mail recently . |
| 29 | I started to like it more when we loosened up and it got less serious . |
| 30 | The system was the last shadow of the original shield in space , pursued partly because it contained exciting high technology , partly because it might possibly offer some worthwhile advantages , and partly because it could be used to show that Mr Bush had not turned his back on Mr Reagan 's dream . |