Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I had no excuse not to audition for plays , and when I did I found that I enjoyed it . |
| 2 | Hanging around with the photographer sparked Tony 's interest in the medium , ‘ It was a combination of things ; one was the bull , the adventure , the romance , and I really found that I liked it a lot . |
| 3 | He found that he liked it . |
| 4 | Agnes absorbed that and found that she believed it : Mo had been thirty years in intelligence work which trains up a determination not to know some things quite as strong as the desire to know others . |
| 5 | He stretched out a hand to Merrill , and she found that she needed it to escape the embrace of the thick , downy cushions . |
| 6 | And it bounced and bounced and bounced and I thought it was going on for ages but it did n't . |
| 7 | Since just before I moved and it triggered it off . |
| 8 | Her hand trembled and she clamped it hard against her chest until the attack of nerves had subsided a little . |
| 9 | I think a medical problem different say for instance for myself I got an awful bash on the nose playing badminton and they thought it was broken , however it mended and I wished it had broken because its mended a bit , but I do not believe in spending money on cosmetic surgery because I think if you make the best of what you have and think of all the people were mutilated by disease |
| 10 | The driver gunned the motor but that only threw off sprays of fine snow , and the motor howled until I thought it would burst . |
| 11 | One of his hands closing over the slender curve of her hip made her lower body stir involuntarily , the increasing urgency of the gyrating movement explicit , both statement and summons , and Maria heard the harsh breath he drew as he absorbed it . |
| 12 | Helping herself to what looked like a gin and tonic — and was a very strong one , she found when she tasted it — as well as a tiny chicken and mushroom vol-au-vent , she was about to make a beeline for an unoccupied chair in the corner when a stranger spoke beside her . |
| 13 | But Uncle Philip bathed in the tub as often as once or twice a week ; he seemed to exercise some occult authority over the geyser , for it never erupted when he lit it . |
| 14 | Her voice trembled as she said it . |
| 15 | When , in the last days of November , a telegram arrived she knew what it must contain and trembled as she held it in her hand . |
| 16 | because they realized that they needed it to invent something to fall in to what they 've already got . |
| 17 | Then he caught Epitot 's eye , and realized that he knew it too . |
| 18 | The Barley Mow tends to be an instant poll of opinion on matters motor racing , and before the Spanish Grand Prix when a Mansell comeback was mooted , one regular announced that he hoped it was true because Nigel was the most exciting British driver anyone could remember . |
| 19 | And he was n't alone amongst the instructors who felt this way : Jack Bisley , Sam Temple , and Amos Bernstein , they all admitted that they hated it ; but Angus McBride and Len looked forward to their trips as if they were half-day school holidays . |
| 20 | as if to prove that the National Hunt supermen that brought off this latest feat are in fact human , Pipe admitted that he got it badly wrong over his assessment of In-Keeping . |
| 21 | Where , in competition with the liquidator of an insolvent company , a creditor of the company was successful in obtaining a renewal of the certificate ( though he had neither right to , nor possession of , the premises in respect of which the certificate was granted ) and admitted that he held it in trust for the company 's creditors , he was ordered to deliver up the certificate to the liquidator : Wm . |
| 22 | This may be out of order but , er , personal experience is that the , er , non-executive directors who were involved in the compensation made a recommendation that , er Michael 's salary be higher erm , than he in fact a agreed with , he requested that we lower it and in fact that was what was done . |
| 23 | But she added that she feared it would not be possible to impose planning controls below the low-water mark , where the drilling rigs would be established . |
| 24 | I noted that he pronounced it in eighteenth-century fashion : ‘ m ’ verse' . |
| 25 | Sarella noticed that he put it all in the past tense . |
| 26 | Well that was where the the Where Argyll and them came and they burnt it down . |
| 27 | The bus came and they boarded it , but to Erika it seemed less like the familiar old lumbering , lurching , yellow Berlin bus , and more a vehicle of romance , gliding through a night made mysterious by more than fog . |
| 28 | He 'd got all the er information about it when he came and he said it was the best type of covering if you 've got dogs or cats . |
| 29 | ‘ I came because I considered it to be my duty , ’ he informed her quietly . |
| 30 | No it , we took it to this bloke and I do n't know what he 's done with it because it played before we took it and when he , he said it were n't worth doing and when we brought it back it wo n't even roll now even play now will it ? |