Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [vb past] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | A glance at my watch showed that it was still only ten past five . |
| 2 | My agent explained that it was a highly secret document , but that he had a friend in the London office who might be able to sneak out a copy . |
| 3 | And my grandmother said that it would happen . |
| 4 | The ANC for its part responded that it regarded the South African Defence Force ( SADF ) as the private army of the NP and called instead for the integration of MK and the SADF into a new national army . |
| 5 | Twenty-four hours , the way her luck ran when it concerned this man . |
| 6 | It was the same when her Mum got when it happened to her they got her a load of new clothes and she was trying them on and grandad said hey get in here now . |
| 7 | Its yellow eyes were looking at me ; its mouth opened and it made strange sounds at me . |
| 8 | Its ceiling sloped and it held a narrow bed with a small table beside it ; no space for anything else . |
| 9 | Leith 's mutiny ebbed when she thought how ill and distraught Travis was making himself over his love , and the seed of an idea of appealing to Travis to save her job withered before it was half born . |
| 10 | Her torso itched as it puffed up like a flightless bird 's , and her legs dwindled and divided into a clump of Cthulhoid tentacles . |
| 11 | Her therapist held that it was natural and healthy for human beings to assume that bad things happened only to other people in remote areas . |
| 12 | At the same time its hardness meant that it could be used to impress softer substances such as clay or wax without incurring wear . |
| 13 | Her dress shrieked as it caught on the comer of the table and tore . |
| 14 | The archaeologist explained that the skeleton 's place in the soil strata and its size meant that it was not a dinosaur . |
| 15 | Its executive announced that it would seek substantial wage increases for its members , to compensate them for the inevitable rises in living costs . |
| 16 | its barrister showed that it was not liable . |
| 17 | After a moment , her mother spoke and it was quite clear that each word was an effort . |
| 18 | His department said that it only kept records of strikes lasting more than three days and involving more than 100 people . |
| 19 | His body felt that it had been in a terrible accident . |
| 20 | When it was over , the top of his head ached where it had been crammed up against the headboard and there were red marks just below his knees where his legs had gone over the footboard . |
| 21 | Boo Radley got himself into trouble and although the punishment inflicted on him was in no way severe or a major disgrace , his father decided that it would embarrass the family to have his son be sent away to the school that the punishment intended . |
| 22 | His anger exploded after it was alleged that he and divorcee Jennifer Fitzgerald , now 59 , spent nights alone in a Swiss lakeside cottage . |
| 23 | His Lordship said that it was quite likely that the Revenue would seek to argue that all or some of the award was liable to tax . |
| 24 | His Lordship thought that it would be a strange doctrine of " looking for the substance " or looking through the documents which would produce a contractual intention so clearly negated by the documents and by oral evidence . |
| 25 | His grandmother said if it was a fact he would not get a grant she would finance him but that he should find out . |
| 26 | ‘ She 's leading you too , ’ Maggie reminded him quietly and his hand came as it often did to tilt her chin imperiously . |
| 27 | He also states that his analysis showed that it is not easy to increase market share through time . |
| 28 | The dull gold in his headdress shimmered as it caught the light . |
| 29 | In his will Captain Sykes left the School £1,000 , and his son proposed that it be used to build an extra classroom . |
| 30 | Ann Upton the returning officer for the East Hampshire constituency told the Herald on Thursday that the ballot box had been taken out of the small office and made freely accessible to voters — meanwhile our photographer discovered that it had been simply relocated in the forest . |