Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Bob said to me where I bought it from , he said I do n't think it would survive the winter because it comes from the Scilly Isles which is warmer . |
| 2 | She put the sheet of paper in an envelope , addressed it clearly , added the word ‘ Urgent ’ and carried it down to the office , where she left it for collection and received instead the original and the photostats of her article . |
| 3 | Clare levered the coins off the counter , and carried her cup out into the small enclosure , where she balanced it on an unsteady iron table , her feet cushioned by a carpet of litter . |
| 4 | That means where you got it from . |
| 5 | But yesterday Labour candidate Alan Milburn said : ‘ It was n't Darlington Council who imposed the poll tax on the town or who kept it for a year longer than necessary . |
| 6 | ‘ They have admitted some of the questions on this paper are too difficult for the children and in Anthony 's school , where they took it as a class test , I believe the highest marks were about 40 or 42pc . ’ |
| 7 | It spread to the Chinese around 2 , years ago and then reached Japan where they cultivated it into the art form it is today . |
| 8 | Who had tried what , where they got it from , what it cost , and how they balance the accounts of risk and pleasure . |
| 9 | Or they said it to her , I do n't know . |
| 10 | Venicoff it was held that when the Secretary of State was deporting a person where he deemed it to be conducive to the public good , he was acting in an executive and not in a judicial capacity . |
| 11 | He would no sooner place his arm where he wanted it to be than his upper body was wracked by a spasm . |
| 12 | Jarvis opened the case he had brought on the vestibule floor , carried the typewriter into Remove , where he put it on one of the desks , and took his clothes upstairs . |
| 13 | IBM Corp started relaxing its strict accounting practices way back in 1984 , just as the company 's core mainframe business began to lose its impetus , although no-one realised it at the time . |
| 14 | Mr. Rifkind did not reply to my letter although I addressed it to him personally at the House of Commons … |
| 15 | ‘ How you have heard of my story , I do not know , for it lies unfinished upstairs , although I began it in May . |
| 16 | and that was my Barclaycard number in case you want it although I ordered it through the thr phone I made out that so that I could read it off on the telephone I did n't even erm I did n't even assemble it I just looked and I saw it does n't chop I thought it would chop things but does n't , it only grates Looks as though it had been out before , you know , you look at this ! |
| 17 | A cream-coloured dress of mine got covered with rust and , although I soaked it in biological liquid , it did n't get rid of the stain . |
| 18 | It was just lucky that I spotted it in time and did something about it at such an early age , or God knows what the child might have turned into , with Saul 's soul possessing him . |
| 19 | Even if I 'd told you that I heard it on the local news , I doubt you 'd have taken my word for it . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , not that I knew it at the time , of course , else I 'd never have gone . ’ |
| 21 | It had been running through my thoughts so often that I knew it by heart , yet now I was suddenly afraid that I might do the wrong thing ! |
| 22 | You must take my word for it that I saw it by accident . |
| 23 | I was feeling so bad that I treated it as a kind of moral victory that I was able to empty most of the water out of the obviously Gav-filled kettle and leave the level at the minimum mark . |
| 24 | Yeah , I never though of that and I doubt if I get it now , all I think was well I know that I got it in the magazine rack |
| 25 | I would n't tell her that I got it from my friend , half of it , anyway . |
| 26 | Not every day , nor as often as I would wish , but I took my middle daughter to see it yesterday and we hugged it together , and two days before that I hugged it with a friend . |
| 27 | It really should n't work , but the wretched book is so irresistible that I devoured it in a day , fighting off friends and strangers who fell on it like vultures on a carcass the moment it was cast aside with a happy sigh . ’ |
| 28 | I had no idea that what was happening was my body trying to bring itself up to a natural weight rather than the unnatural , low one that I kept it at . |
| 29 | I made sure that I enjoyed it to the full , although it was wartime . |
| 30 | I liked it so much that I used it for the show and played the hell out of it , it sounded so good . |