Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [vb past] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | … it being very narrow where we met it , the Driver of the Chaise in backing his Horses to avoid being drove over overturned his Chaise , but very providentially , blessed be Almighty God for it ! we received very little Injury , Nancys Face was a little bruised . |
| 2 | They made it clear that they saw it as the core of a European army . |
| 3 | Although he did not commit a future Labour government to taking the tunnel into public ownership , he made it clear that he believed it would require a public stake to complete the project . |
| 4 | Ironically the price of sterling went up so high that it made it very difficult for us to sell our other manufactured goods and many people are now of the belief that because of the North Sea oil price rises , this had an adverse affect on our economy , making it more difficult for us to sell manufacturing goods because the pound was very strong against other currencies . |
| 5 | The district had changed since he last lived here , but he was not so old that he resented it . |
| 6 | Its complete lack of any taste was so nauseating that I spat it out and decided to eat the rest of the bread by itself I was finishing this when there was the sound of boots in the passage again . |
| 7 | Those remaining faced disease and starvation and the prospect of continuing civil war because the Russians left Afghanistan more unstable than they found it . |
| 8 | It was risky and she knew it . |
| 9 | I think , yeah I think it might look wrong if you turned it up actually . |
| 10 | It 's interesting cos you said it helps people with mild depression . |
| 11 | I felt my hand touch something feathery and I pulled it out to see what it was . |
| 12 | At the weekend I received a letter and a petition from a young girl called Frances aged nine years old and it brought it home to me that it is n't an adult centred er erm issue , that it 's one for everybody who lives in Leicestershire . |
| 13 | It came free and he threw it at me . |
| 14 | The design team under Hugh Lasson and Misha Black ( both later knighted ) were right in believing that there was hunger for visual stimulation among the British and they got it in the form of sculpture , murals and mobiles by Moore , Hepworth , Piper , Sutherland , Topolski and Epstein as well as a pedestrian precinct which was all grilles and screens and balls and decks and terraces and fountains and colour . |
| 15 | ‘ His knee is slightly unstable and we thought it best he saw the surgeon who performed the operation on him . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ His knee is slightly unstable and we thought it best he saw the surgeon who performed the operation . ’ |
| 17 | Because one of the typewriters is broken and she blamed it on me . |
| 18 | Just now the autumnal coolth was tonic and he breathed it in like drinking draughts of fresh milk , then took dippersful of water from the butt at the side of the house and sluiced his head into activity . |
| 19 | The question " Were you speaking Patois or English just then ? " will not necessarily make a lot of sense to a member of the London Caribbean community , any more than the questions " Why did you say that in Patois ? " or " How would the effect of that be different if you said it in ordinary English ? " . |
| 20 | Even at that early stage in her career , Roddick knew she was different and she cultivated it . |
| 21 | Discipline was rigid and we respected it , but resented it too , because of a particular juvenile arrogance that must have been founded on the knowledge that the world was changing a lot more than they realised , and it was for us that it was changing . |
| 22 | Oh aye , it is painful but I thought it 's not going away so I 'd better go and see about it . |
| 23 | Looking at Damian Flint , she knew he was not different because he had power : he was different because he wanted it , fought for it , and knew how to use it . |
| 24 | But we are embarrassed because we got it wrong when usually we do not . |
| 25 | Euripides would probably have said that what Aeschylus did was wrong because he did it unconsciously . |
| 26 | She sipped absently , so desperate to remember who she was and how she came to be here that the mug was empty before she realised it . |
| 27 | With large numbers this can cause even worse handling and registration problems than for paper , and even , perhaps , extra complications if a disk turns out to be corrupt ( ‘ It was OK when I handed it in . ’ ) |
| 28 | PLAYER : We never really got going — it was getting quite interesting when they stopped it . |
| 29 | Even so , in her darkest moments , wrong as she knew it to be , Constance could not stop herself thinking , If only it had been Mummy . |
| 30 | The overall effect from the picture was that if you got any closer you would be engulfed in fire ; I was staggered when I saw it . |