Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [prep] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I always intended to , but I wanted a reason or some credibility to go back with , so that our gesture was n't completely fruitless or looked as if it had been a complete waste of time . |
| 2 | I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed . |
| 3 | The fatal , fateful thing was that for a century the device appeared to work : Canada felt and behaved as if it was still part of the empire . |
| 4 | She put her bag with the story on the passenger seat and drove as if it were a newborn baby . |
| 5 | It had all trees on it and looked as if it had been made for picnics . |
| 6 | As the orchestra took up the refrain once more , she came to take her mother 's hand at centre stage , and sang as if it was the most natural thing in the world . |
| 7 | Hilary , coming out of his reverie , noticed his discomfiture , and smiled as if it was something of not the slightest importance : ‘ The suggestion has been made , ’ he said . |
| 8 | He shifted his body towards her and spoke as if it were important that she , of all those present , should understand . |