Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [subord] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the same when her Mum got when it happened to her they got her a load of new clothes and she was trying them on and grandad said hey get in here now . |
| 2 | The reasons why the Eisenhower administration acted as it did in 1956 remain potent , especially when examined without the advantages of hindsight . |
| 3 | What he discovered was that the G cell turned when it met the axons of cells A1 and A2 , whereas C turned and followed two other pioneer cells , P1 and P2 . |
| 4 | Uniformitarianism triumphed because it provided a general theory that was at once logical and seemingly " scientific " . |
| 5 | Luke 's mouth pleasured while it dominated , and his hands roaming insolently about her body were creating havoc , the skilled , confident caresses to which he subjected her a bold proclamation of ownership . |
| 6 | Suddenly , Labour wobbled as it appeared that the Tories might have picked a genuine winner . |
| 7 | The horrific headless figure disappeared as it reached the foot of the steps . |
| 8 | If it still remains uncomfortable , then we , then we need to have a closer look and we may need to get the eye specialist involved if it 's refused to settle down . |
| 9 | However , reports questioning Shah 's independence grew after it emerged that Irfanullah Marwat Khan , implicated in the alleged gang-rape of a close friend of the PPP leader Benazir Bhutto [ see p. 38683 ] , had been retained as an adviser to the new provincial government . |
| 10 | The Judge said if it had cost one penny more he would have been hanged . |
| 11 | The engine whistled as it came into the wide bay of railway lines beside the colliery , where rows of trucks stood in harbour ( 11 ) . |
| 12 | Rain asked whether it had been an especially productive period . |
| 13 | a similar point arose where it proposed to serve the writ and an Anton Piller order out of the jurisdiction on a Belgian company . |
| 14 | Her torso itched as it puffed up like a flightless bird 's , and her legs dwindled and divided into a clump of Cthulhoid tentacles . |
| 15 | The bomb-shell exploded when it added that those sixty-six coupons must last for a whole year . |
| 16 | The frog 's forehead bulged as it tried to get its mind around a new idea . |
| 17 | When it was over , the top of his head ached where it had been crammed up against the headboard and there were red marks just below his knees where his legs had gone over the footboard . |
| 18 | The reason that we can not calculate the necessary correction is that we do not know which way the photon went when it bounced into the microscope . |
| 19 | The alleyways were scored with deep trenches down which the water ran when it rained ; or would have run had its passage not been blocked by heaps of refuse , dung and animal guts , behind which the water collected in stagnant pools , above which mosquitoes hung in a cloud . |
| 20 | Ringed plovers pattered at the water 's edge of a muddy creek and a whimbrel whistled as it flew overhead . |
| 21 | I could hardly conceive what it must be like in winter : the incessant darkness ; the piercing cold when the spray froze as it hit the deck and formed great blocks of ice at the bows ; howling gales and never-ending work ; then a few days in port and out to sea again , week after week , month after month . |
| 22 | Hawthorn 's despatch case lay where it had been knocked over . |
| 23 | Relief came when it flew away and left our little group in the quiet on the top of the mountain range . |
| 24 | With that warning in mind , the outcome for Japan in the 1980s is nevertheless surprising : its only clear advantage in the cost of equity capital came while it had a wild , speculative market in shares , land and warrants in 1987–89 . |
| 25 | Somewhere out of sight , cicadas filled the air with their high-pitched whirring and , in the distance , a woodpecker shrieked as it swooped from tree to tree in a flash of yellow , green and red . |
| 26 | Her dress shrieked as it caught on the comer of the table and tore . |
| 27 | Above him a raven cawed as it flew to hunt over the mudflats along the river . |
| 28 | Carried by some freak of the acoustics of the place or by the mist , Jotan 's voice said as it seemed to Alexei in his ear , ‘ If you move or call out , I shall kill you . ’ |
| 29 | A Liberal Party spokesman refused to be drawn on the price the Government wanted if it had met the demands , saying that , since the deal fell through , it was hypothetical . |
| 30 | Soon , however , a new controversy arose when it seemed to some zoologists and paleontologists that even the large dinosaurs could very well have had a high running speed , at least as high as an equivalent sized modern mammal . |