Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Magee paid it little heed as he continued his nocturnal stroll , looking around him constantly , occasionally slowing down to look over his shoulder or perhaps changing direction quickly , ducking into a group of people . |
| 2 | He pressed it gently shut and it held ; loosely and with a slight gap , but it held . |
| 3 | This painful , though , in its context , highly effective course of action was part and parcel of a brutal and unenlightened society and no doubt it left all those who survived it spiritually stunted and psychologically scarred . |
| 4 | A crumb of chocolate stuck to her lip , where Coffin watched it slowly melt as he spoke to her . |
| 5 | The English discouraged the colony , the Spanish first watched it carefully to see that it showed no sign of succeeding and eventually in 1700 they captured it . |
| 6 | A drop of soap trickled into his eyes and he rubbed it only to find that he had created more pain . |
| 7 | My mind 's eye saw it well tamed and abloom with all kinds of ground-cover plants . |
| 8 | Mrs d'Urberville held each bird and felt it carefully to see that it was in good health . |
| 9 | ‘ By the time the season kicked off against Norwich it was felt I was ready but because of the heat I felt it hard going and I struggled . |
| 10 | And the Shelley party were near at hand — though the fluctuations of the time scale made it hard to determine whether they would recognize my name if they heard it . |
| 11 | Leavis always laid claim to the subtler view of controversy , but his doctrine was always easily open , as he knew , to cruder interpretations , and the fire-and-brimstone of his prose sometimes made it hard to interpret or understand in any other way . |
| 12 | How did it just happen that Harris could maintain his Offensive despite disastrous occasions like Nuremburg . |
| 13 | Eventually , he left it fully wrapped and fastened with a safety-pin . |
| 14 | He had it already prepared and he went and fetched the tray . |
| 15 | Paul had it well prepared and really she sa , but sh all his answers met with a logical sequence did n't it ? |
| 16 | The crowd cheered the Empress who responded with a curtsy — that famous gesture which those who witnessed it never forgot and which became the hallmark of Eugénie 's graciousness . |
| 17 | However , the Foreign Office said it warmly welcomed and supported the US move to step up its contribution . |
| 18 | General Francis said it so happened that he owned the fishing rights on a fairly respectable stretch of water . |
| 19 | th th the building went ahead and people every year or two sometimes twice in a year get flooded and they get sewages the the sewer with the volume of rain water they ca n't otherwise get away , but it brings to light what happens i i i in the ditches and , and the waterways that are spread across the direction of Airport and then out into the river when the tide is low because the switches close when the tide comes in and basically er and this is up to date information the information that I have is that the channels are the responsibility of the er you know responsibilities are either kept cleared or not clogged up and in connection with the , with the incident I , I did hear it said that in , in a place where once said it usually counts that possibly and more than the that the first flood was due because the drains and the ditches could n't take the volume of water after they were cleared and things have been pretty reasonable erm since that time , so it would seem to confirm what , what I have to say about keeping clear erm but it may be that authorities that were n't responsible had the job of cleaning them , I do n't know . |
| 20 | He said it correctly suspecting that the Conservatives were about to be pitched back into opposition by Lord Aberdeen 's coalition of Peelites , Whigs and Liberals . |
| 21 | Ruth wanted it never to end but always in the back of her mind was the thought that it must . |