Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I set out to write this story I thought that it would primarily show how scientists come up with ideas , design a strategy to test them , carry out the experiments , share experiences and attempt to replicate claimed discoveries , thereby establishing new natural phenomena . |
| 2 | Of course , old Meg is not to be relied upon at all , owing to her unfortunate fondness for the bottle , and when I heard that she was the source of the story I said that it could n't possibly be the case , that she did n't know what she had seen , as usual — ’ |
| 3 | Of course I suspected where it had come from . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought it was a weakness I had but it was n't — it proved to be my strength . |
| 5 | The first programme we watched after it was installed was one my father would have loved , about old sailing-ships and the life of our ancestor , the poet-sailor William Falconer , who wrote a long poem , The Shipwreck , which was popular in its day . |
| 6 | There was something inside me after all , and whatever it was — to my untutored mind it seemed that it must be exceedingly unpleasant , even hideous — it was not well . |
| 7 | just from a quick glance it looked like it would need some er work on it |
| 8 | When the angel came to the rock he saw that it was covered by a lovely green creeping plant . |
| 9 | This followed next , the debate opening on 14 November with a speech from Ottaviani , followed by a presentation of the text which suggested that it was a dogmatic decree concerned with the defence of Catholic doctrine : the existence of ‘ two sources ’ of revelation , Scripture and tradition . |
| 10 | The policewoman shot her a look which said that it was not for her to say so , even if she , herself , had been thinking it . |
| 11 | None of his designs that we now possess was built , and my first thought was of regret that this should be so , but on reflection I knew that it was right . |
| 12 | The age of consent was considered by the Policy Advisory Committee which recommended that it should remain at 16 . |
| 13 | She was elected , in part , on a manifesto which said that it was her intention to take Whitehall off the backs of the town halls . |
| 14 | When she got to her desk she saw that it would not do ; it was not an essay day but at that rate there would be no essay to write ; she had not done her week 's reading . |
| 15 | With a shudder she realized that it was in the same block of buildings as Bartholomew Close . |
| 16 | It seemed to bow in the centre ; for one terrible second she thought that it was going to split . |
| 17 | They should not feel aggrieved at her asking for money ; when she went into the cold hall she felt that it would not give her back much , if anything . |
| 18 | On her return she knew that it was he who had plucked the sting but she was afraid that too demonstrative a show of gratitude might be misinterpreted . |
| 19 | Rather than looking at the proposal we decided that it was so that 's what we did really and that 's why , if you have a look down there right , so all we 're doing then we 're working through the resources and allocating them room numbers erm and then when that 's done so that 's what we did for each of the little rooms . |
| 20 | The mirror on the chest was tilted down , reflecting a dish of cuff links , a pencil stub , crushed boarding pass , loose change , the ivory brushes he never used , and the plastic hairbrush he did because it was more effective . |
| 21 | He had few clothes — a ‘ good suit ’ of dark-blue lightweight dacron that was the badge of every American in those days , a couple of shirts , a long , shapeless tweed overcoat of German origin he wore when it got colder . |
| 22 | ‘ That 's not true , ’ Harry protested , although on reflection he knew that it was . |
| 23 | She had turned other men — men she did n't hate — away at her door before now without going through all this prior angst , meeting the moment with the tact or firmness it required when it came , but not before . |
| 24 | On recovery , Mr Hayden described the stranger to the porter who agreed that it was the same figure he had seen . |
| 25 | Bible I saw that it only got 68% . |
| 26 | A chicken no a king prawn korma I had and it was lovely . |
| 27 | Some of these are explored in the pages to come : computers which siphon even more power from the people who operate them ; a dynamic but degraded city ; a hippie alternative to capitalism which failed because it never really analysed the problem . |
| 28 | Once it was mooted that there should be a study-period after school , but this was vetoed by the parents ' meeting which protested that it would interfere with after-school sports . |
| 29 | The bill was passed despite fierce opposition from the white commercial farming community which warned that it would transform productive commercial farms into subsistence smallholdings and could turn Zimbabwe from a food exporter to an importer . |
| 30 | take you back in this first talk about the art of film erm to the very early days , and these are difficult I think for us to imagine because we 're so used today to sound films , of all the effects in , in the theatres , we 're used to the great stars , we 're used to the big subjects , and yet the film began in the smallest possible way , it began really as a sideshow , it began as a hobby for a group of people , sometimes they would be French , sometimes they would be British , sometimes American , the early pioneers , whose main interest was to produce a camera , which would look like a still camera and yet somehow would manage to produce a picture which moved when it was projected on a screen . |