Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She found nothing and it hurt so badly . |
| 2 | He caught him and it turned out it was the assistant chief constable 's son . |
| 3 | Ten minutes later , she miaowed if I approached her and it took her several hours to forgive me and to stop treating me like a walking cat repellent . |
| 4 | I lunged for the meth. bottle and caught it before it hit the floor . |
| 5 | Rose left it on the coffee table by her husband 's chair , and when he had had his usual mixed fry-up and was preparing to have his snooze , his eye caught it as it lay there . |
| 6 | She tossed it up and caught it as it came slowly down . |
| 7 | A gust of wind caught it and it slid towards the ground , but only for a moment or so . |
| 8 | The wind caught it and it bounced awkwardly for the St Aloysius defence and Roy Montgomery went in for a try under the posts which was converted by Ross Houghton . |
| 9 | He moved his hand and touched her breast through the robe she wore , found the nipple and stroked it until it hardened and she stirred . |
| 10 | And then they stopped it and it got spread about and then blah blah blah and then it came well it spread all through Europe and |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She tried it and it flickered . |
| 13 | He says that he tried it and it works . |
| 14 | General , and later President , Eisenhower visited it when it became the American second General Hospital . |
| 15 | Her credibility increased when she advised me that it did not really matter whether I believed in homeopathy or not . |
| 16 | And she believed me that it did n't match three piece suite or carpet and it was stupid , and that sh and she says what shall I do about them ? |
| 17 | She instantly strode across the shop and took a book from among thousands and assured me that it contained all I would ever need to know about cooking for ever . |
| 18 | John assured me that it did n't matter in the least , and amused himself by taxying the machine up and down the runways , testing and running-in the VW engine at the same time . |
| 19 | Others never adopted their plans and subsequently ignored them when it suited . |
| 20 | So , I told them that it had new blades on but they wanted it really tight , and they wanted tightening up and that so yeah . |
| 21 | Surely someone told them that it rained in Scotland . |
| 22 | Lifting our skirts higher and higher to avoid the water we carefully dropped them as it became shallow again . |
| 23 | They would have married sooner but had to wait for her divorce ; Pamela Chrimes told me that it took some time to obtain the evidence of adultery which was then necessary . |
| 24 | We chose retinoic acid because I met a friend , at a meeting , and he told me that it affected cell communication . |
| 25 | One glance at Hannah 's meadows told me that it had very real prospects because it did not have the lush , emerald green appearance of chemically fertilized land . |
| 26 | And when I asked her what she was doing with it , Emma — or maybe it was Sophie — told me that it had been dropped by two men , who were fighting each other behind some trees on the other side of the park . ’ |
| 27 | They let me have one last look and told me that it belonged to someone in another band — which made me feel really guilty . |
| 28 | An engineering expert in stress told me that it has recently been discovered that two pieces of metal , indistinguishable unless subjected to sophisticated tests , react differently to precisely the same amount of stress . |
| 29 | She had never farmed before , and she told me that it did not come easy . |
| 30 | She probably told me and it did n't stick . |