Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were standing by the boat , demanding that I let you on board , and I felt such a raw , aching need lance through me that it shocked me . |
| 2 | it sort of er er gave them lee a , ladies leeway who wanted to work after they were married , some married and then could they come back well they could n't keep me on and not let them work you see , so oh yes it was mostly married women , there were a lot of married women there when I left , but erm it sort of set a precedent I suppose for , for them but it did , it did them some good really . |
| 3 | Those disciples , they had the storm stilled for them and it got easier sailing . |
| 4 | It was there for them as it had always been . |
| 5 | He has also pointed out that the future did not loom so large for them as it did for the Roman historians , who were anxious about the fate of their empire . |
| 6 | When in Colossians 1:9ff Paul prays for Christians he has never met , his first request is that the Spirit would give them understanding of the Lord 's will for their lives ; then , that they should live their lives in accordance with that will by pleasing the Lord in everything ; then , that they should increase in their knowledge of God ; and finally , that they should be strengthened with all might according to the measure of his glorious power which should result for them as it did for Christ , not in arrogance but in patience and longsuffering . |
| 7 | She wanted so much to remain with him on the terms which had always existed between them , did not want the wealth and consequence of her real life to come between them before it needed to . |
| 8 | Working part of lunchtime had a slight advantage for me because it meant I now had a bit more time to load the container rail set . |
| 9 | The weekend lost its appeal for me when it came to the fundamental rebirthing philosophy . |
| 10 | He put in a good word for me and it went on from there . |
| 11 | ‘ I had my top made for me and it cost £70 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He , he was a real friendly guy and like I say he never said cheerio before he went , but one day he just painted his aircraft up with the D-day landing signs which we did n't know at the time and the next day he was gone of course it was very much top secret that was but the town just emptied of all Americans it was like a ghost town after them but it had been previously . |
| 14 | He somehow managed to pound down to Kouklia on Chennaa , half by night and half by blazing day , and crossing the island was able to see for himself that it had been a more settled and prosperous year . |
| 15 | They heard it , wheeled up in the air towards it and right past me and it turned off the road in fear . |
| 16 | I said , ‘ Cynthia would n't let him ’ , which was silly of me because it aroused several emotions in my mother . |
| 17 | The big grey monster sat in front of me and it looked at me . |
| 18 | They could see their pals being shot down in front of them but it made no difference . |
| 19 | Many of the small boats which usually travelled its waters were moored for the night and The Sandhopper passed a number of them as it made its way up river . |
| 20 | The legendary Miller ski , made in the USA , was one of them and it became a rather hot seller in the upmarket ski boutiques of London . |
| 21 | It was a sound they knew , one often heard at night from within the dark walls of the cottages in the village , but out here it was around them and with them and part of them and it had an eerie quality as though inside the vixen some diabolic spirit was entrapped , a demon screeching its despair . |
| 22 | Then , just when Rachel was feeling she wanted it to go on forever , this exciting masquerade between the two of them where it seemed as if the rest of the world did n't exist , she found herself beside Danny who began stuttering and waving his arms , obviously trying to tell her something . |
| 23 | Now he told me , that night we got so drunk , that it was because of you that it had n't happened . |
| 24 | Victoria said , ‘ And why he asked me not to call him uncle in front of you because it made him sound old ! ’ |
| 25 | It was right at the very beginning when you had to ask him about the introduction , I thought you were going straight off from the business card and all the rest of it and what you actually had was your C C Q in front of you because it took you all that time to get round to it . |
| 26 | It must be an a , because he , he , he , he said he 'd got chance of one but it did whacking great six inch er sixteen inch wheels on ! |
| 27 | He then picked up a stool and brought it down towards her but it smashed a ceiling light . |
| 28 | Zulei pointed the blade towards her and it sent lances of red and green light into Jezrael 's eyes . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Fergus had been so intensely aware of every separate part of her that it had been a pain and a torment . |