Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , I forgot all about that but it did n't matter anyway . |
| 2 | I would put in for that if it came up . |
| 3 | I 'm slightly concerned about this because it said that other matters erm we do n't know what other matters until the inspector has been in , in June and has identified those other matters , presumably when we get the further inspector 's report next Autumn or after June , it will address issues which may have been ones he has addressed this year and maybe not , er and we will have to look at that inspector 's report when we receive it . |
| 4 | Chatterjee wondered about this as it began to seem more than simply coincidence . |
| 5 | In contrast , Cramlington is ‘ non-urban ’ and was intended to be a more or less ( there was always some equivocation about this and it grew over time ) free-standing new town , located on a ‘ green field ’ site quite separate from the Tyneside conurbation . |
| 6 | There 's an instrumental track called Bone Down , and there was originally a guitar solo after that but it did n't fit well — you know , like a good solo will make the song move in the right direction . |
| 7 | However , it is doubtful whether state pensions policies were the prime cause of this decline since it continued at much the same rate after 1948 as it had done before . |
| 8 | Oh , after all that it did n't work ! |
| 9 | Then three-quarters of Rokeya 's olive-shaded face appeared bearing the same expression of suffering as it had all the years Lee had known her , relieved only by the same amethyst earrings and necklace of variegated amethyst chunks . |
| 10 | Oh the by-pass road , you know the north northern part of Ipswich , along the by-pass and of course had ordered trolley buses , because you had to order 'em about two years ahead of time , erm , to take care of that but it did n't materialize and we had a surplus of buses and some of them were sold off , I think some went to Walsall , some to Wolverhampton and er I , I think it was one of those that was sold to Wals Woolwich , figured in the national newspapers that had toppled over . |
| 11 | That I know we 're flogging a dead horse , but that half past ten , a phenomenal amount of time , it should never ever have taken a fraction of that if it had been done properly . |
| 12 | Then , calmly : ‘ We went through all of that when it happened , Cardiff . |
| 13 | Time enough to think of that when it happened . |
| 14 | It was because of this that it became so important for a buyer to establish that the seller 's representation amounted to a contractual term so that full damages would then be available . |
| 15 | Needless to say , an appeal took place in the summer of 1991 and it came to light that although the Sharmas had been entitled to take Sophie and Robbie , they had never done so . |
| 16 | The snow made horizontal lines of white where it had lodged between the timbers . |
| 17 | It was an Arctic blast screaming from the east , picking up extra degrees of cold as it drove over the frozen white surface . |
| 18 | This was the summer of 1969 and it fired me into action . |
| 19 | Every step away from the cloister was a step further from salvation — bad enough in any case , worst of all when it meant a turning from the spiritual embrace of Christ to an impure love . |
| 20 | And Armistice Day is the best and brightest memory of all because it had been a war to end all wars and no one would ever allow such a thing to happen again … |
| 21 | Under the English system of parishes every diocese had variety ; that is each parish had the Prayer Book but used it as it thought , with simple or elaborate ceremonial , and with variations of language sanctioned by the ( illegal ) Prayer Book of 1928 if it wished . |
| 22 | Oh poetry some of those poems that Bon had in her Touchstones book , especially the ones , the war , about the war , I read some of those and it made me cry , it was so sad . |
| 23 | It was considerably less straight than that of Sarazen as it clattered into the trees on the right but nevertheless rebounded on to the fairway short of the bunker from where he managed a four . |
| 24 | It was inevitable that she should start like that but it did n't save her from a sense of her inadequacy . |
| 25 | It 'd be really awkward having a name like that if it had a short neck . ’ |
| 26 | so you could pull it up and down and the effects went out the bottom of the tube , the tube came up like that and it came over , and like that and then the shade would be like that and then you could swing it round |
| 27 | Kevin 's brother , who fancied himself as an amateur psychologist , said you did n't really forget things like that and it meant Lyn must unconsciously want not to wear it — ergo , not to be married . |
| 28 | It was thing with two prongs and you tap it in like that and it lifted the neeps , then you did that with the yeuk |
| 29 | Yes a row of houses and of course when I saw I looked out the door and there was this plane swooping down like that and it seemed so low because they were aiming an and the bomb fell in the cattle market and , and I threw myself on to the stone floor , you see , and er and presently one of the ambulance men came round to my office door and he said , are you alright ? |
| 30 | Well , some of the racecourse gon na be made like that and it cost a fortune , mind ya . |