Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] it [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the twenty minutes or so it took them to reach the outskirts of Mariánské Láznë , Fabia basked in the warmth of her happy memories of her splendid morning . |
| 2 | Invention or not it made him want her more completely , and he put his arms beneath her shoulders , liking her up and off him . |
| 3 | The relief of being able to believe in his innocence was at first so great that temporarily it overwhelmed him . |
| 4 | It 's a great shame that when we are presented with er a problem , when we 're out on site , we actually forget all these things and , and I think that probably it took you an hour or so yesterday to actually recognise , oh yes , I need this and I need this and I need this . |
| 5 | We ended up buying a cheap gas picnic stove for which cartridges were sold everywhere — and luckily it did us proud . |
| 6 | ‘ I was sitting there one day trying to think what was better than climbing a mountain — and suddenly it hit me … climbing two ! ’ he says . |
| 7 | That 's right yes , yeah that bit that was just like what they call a swan neck , just like the swan and that was like that and so it kept me at load level , they were built by and some of the best cranes I 've ever known on the dock . |
| 8 | And so it acquired its contemporary , pejorative connotation of idle chatter . |
| 9 | It was an Unmentionable Disease , and he 'd caught it because he 'd been to an Unmentionable Place and so it served him right , but that did n't make it any less sore . |
| 10 | The Americans expected it and so it prepared them to sit down quietly and listen to speech . |
| 11 | ‘ The valve is a routine piece of safety equipment and basically it did what it was supposed to do . ’ |
| 12 | For over fifteen minutes she dutifully teased and titillated his slumbering pestle with sweet sucking and gentle licking until finally it answered her patient ministrations . |
| 13 | I was told not to push then , and I saw the midwife go to cut the cord , and finally it clicked what all the fuss had been about . |
| 14 | It consistently indulged in folies de grandeur — and somehow it made them believable . |
| 15 | The Professional 's wife , acting as Steward , was dismissed for bad language and automatically it cost her husband his job . |
| 16 | And now It knew him . |
| 17 | She could n't remember the last time that she 'd invited a man into her home , and now it made her feel uneasy to watch Luke Calder inspecting all these snippets of her life . |
| 18 | And now it seemed they were n't , because nothing was happening . |
| 19 | This vision she had adopted , cultivated , and now it seemed her own , although she would never have conceived of it herself . |
| 20 | And then it struck her : She had no land ! |
| 21 | And then it struck me . |
| 22 | And then it struck him . |
| 23 | And then It sensed him . |
| 24 | For example , it said I had a daughter called Samantha ( which is not true ) , and it said that I had a Citroen car ( which I do n't — I drive a Renault ) and that I spent three years at the Royal College of Art painting ten-inch red stripes on a piece of canvas and then it quoted me and it said : ' ’ I do n't know why we did it , ’ says Terry . |
| 25 | And then it crossed her mind that Kate Maybury must be afraid , anxious that Juliet should n't find out what she wanted . |
| 26 | And they put it on back to front and so she keeps on putting her watch on upside down , she goes and I was feeling dead sick and then it realised it was the stupid cow at the shop with |
| 27 | And then it made him somewhat fearful , the thought that he alone should possess this knowledge . |
| 28 | It was obvious he was good , it was obvious he should be in FI , but somehow he dallied and twiddled and procrastinated and did n't get around to it seriously until he was thirty-six years old and then it took him only three years to become champion . |
| 29 | West Indies have won only two of their last 14 matches , and then it took them six games in this season 's World Series Cup to win another . |
| 30 | Alan always came back defeated , sooner or later , and then it took her twice as long to settle the child . |