Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] it [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know if it ever occurred to me to regret my inability to have a child by Jean-Claude . |
| 2 | The partial pressure of a component gas is the pressure the gas would exert if it alone occupied the total volume at the same temperature . |
| 3 | It is quite incredible what has happened in my life — the help that has just seemed to come , the opportunities that have arisen , doors that have opened in all directions and , if occasionally one closed , it did n't matter because it always meant a better one would open later . |
| 4 | Not only did the BBC believe that it alone knew what was good for the audience , its pretence of impartiality was bogus and it absorbed and suffocated with banalities all differences of opinion : |
| 5 | Now , she could see that it even looked like Clive . |
| 6 | Anyway , I put it in the paper , phoned in the paper and they said it 'd be at least a week or fortnight before so I did n't like but it never came out in the paper . |
| 7 | While the fact that a phenomenon was perceived allows one to infer and assert that it actually occurred , the converse is not true : the fact that it was not perceived does not mean that it did not take place . |
| 8 | We did n't sulk and we did n't pout and it never lasted . |
| 9 | We may suppose that it originally stood in a niche . |
| 10 | In the end I had to take it to a skid pan to see how far it would go before it eventually lost its cool The answer was as far as its steering lock would allow . |
| 11 | When they changed the deep litter did it erm I 've heard folks say that it actually affected the hens that they that they went cannibal and |