Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It played for a little while , I did n't play it for long but it did play . |
| 2 | And if we had , we would certainly have cleared the building and got out of here until it dissipated . ’ |
| 3 | AT LAST it 's here — the God-forsaken rumble the world 's been waiting for ever since it became clear just how deadly a live phenomenon the Rolins Band are . |
| 4 | AT LAST it 's here — the God-forsaken rumble the world 's been waiting for ever since it became clear just how deadly a live phenomenon the Rolins Band are . |
| 5 | However , no equipment will last for ever and it started to become obvious that I would need to update before too long . |
| 6 | So the first day finished with me lying sleepless , listening to that familiar music coming from below as it had years before , the jazz records my mother used to play . |
| 7 | I knew a putt would have to drop before long and it came at the 8th , the par-3 ( 178 yards ) . |
| 8 | A small paragraph from a newspaper was overlooked by me until now because it had been made even smaller in photocopying . |
| 9 | Looked like huge gigantic pieces of toffee that he used to put in here and it melted and |
| 10 | Her head and body were metal and her wings were water , water that was forced through holes in her back and lit from beneath so it looked solid , like glass . |
| 11 | The United States began to buy more consumer goods from abroad than it exported in 1959 ; by 1969 the deficit was $4 billion ; in 1968 the balance on cars became negative . |
| 12 | I pulled in there as it seemed a good place to get Armstrong off the road and it was only then I saw that it was in fact an unmade road curving away round the back of the hill . |
| 13 | But then in seventy nine we had a hit at home with Bunch of Time and that as far as we were concerned was the end of the road you know to be successful in Ireland and then late eighty one , early eighty two you know they started playing Bunch of Time over here and it became a top twenty hit for us and that you know changed the whole thing round about and got us from say the pubs in Ireland into the concert circuit in England which we 've been doing ever since . |
| 14 | So the saving that we were going to make them , by reducing five per cent but increasing the lancer machine bearings and bumping this standard cost one up to well as it turned out , seventeen per cent margin . |
| 15 | THE Prince of Wales was hissed at yesterday but it made him laugh . |
| 16 | It had less and less to say to a home-owning , share-owning , bourgeoisified population , at least so it seemed . |
| 17 | The second , and methodological , argument against historicism was that it was not ‘ rational ’ , or at least that it fostered irrationalism and mysticism ( Popper 1966 : 216 ) . |
| 18 | He got closer to his goal than many , however , at least when it came to bringing ‘ joy ’ . |
| 19 | The habit of association among hand-loom weavers could last as long as the class of workmen itself , or at least until it became too unstable and diluted to preserve it . |
| 20 | The most important of these , at least as it appeared to those involved , was the discovery of sea-floor spreading , which was transformed from a brave conception to a probability in 1963 . |
| 21 | What 's happened it 's the world again to use J B Phillips translation this time the Romans twelve two , that , that the world the precious around us has pushed us here and is as dented at there and it squeezed us out of the mould , the purpose the pattern that God had for us , into its own mould , a warped mould , a distorted picture , that has what has happened . |
| 22 | The horse was totally confused by now and it eased forward in the shafts not knowing what to do next , until Broomhead reminded it with a few well-chosen obscenities . |
| 23 | Faced with losses of £1,500,000 a week , chairman Nick Schele said the company would have closed by now if it had not been taken over by Ford . |
| 24 | ‘ Sir , ’ he said to the court , ‘ I would be a dead man by now if it had not been for this gentleman . ’ |