Example sentences of "it [conj] [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took it and laughed as he counted the few coins . |
| 2 | But then when Narouz had himself raised it and indicated that he had changed his mind , it had suddenly come to seem a good idea . |
| 3 | I got really fed up hearing it and thought that one more repetition would send me screaming down the street ! |
| 4 | She chewed on it and thought that it could n't possibly be as rubbery as it seemed . |
| 5 | As we walked towards an ancient Volkswagen she took my arm and rested too heavily upon it and asked if I 'd brought her anything from London . |
| 6 | ‘ He remarked on me seeming worried about it and asked if I might be pregnant . ’ |
| 7 | Right well it came up when War on Want wrote to us and asked us to affiliate and we had a brief chat about it and felt that there are many groups that we could affiliate to . |
| 8 | He drew me into the family circle , laughing , telling his mother of my struggles , of the broken door , but when I started to take my veil off he would n't have it and insisted that I keep it on . |
| 9 | She felt it and discovered that it was very soft and stretchy . |
| 10 | According to Wainfleet Ruby had asked him for a photograph of the escaped prisoner from the newspaper 's files , passed her hands over it and discovered that Sniffy was in Epping Forest . |
| 11 | I told the cleaning ladies and they came up and said , twiddled around with it and said that they could n't work out what was wrong and they were gon na get some engineers in or something , engineers ? |
| 12 | But Basil got summonsed for wounding — an inspector in a tram-car had seen it and went and gave evidence against him . |
| 13 | It had made the Marchese a small fortune when he sold it to the deputy of the English connoisseur in Naples who was going to ship it away in boxes ; it was being stripped from the walls when the Government heard of it and came and sealed up the villa again , but not before one of the intermediaries had sliced enough off the top of the deal to pay his passage to America , promising to send after him for his family . |
| 14 | Wexford leafed through it and saw that Hatton had paid twenty-five pounds for the lamp on May 22nd . |
| 15 | Any way that was it and you st and you f forked them all round and you after it was er up you was put up to do the tramping round and round and you Every forkful you took it and saw that it was laid down and tramped it round like this , round and round and round and then the next one , till it was up . |
| 16 | We saw a lady wading towards it and inquired if it was hers . |
| 17 | Karen read his look faster than he could recover it and smiled as she asked , ‘ What 's her name , Sam ? ’ |
| 18 | I made a great bonfire of it and stood and watched it burn until every trace of him was wiped off the face of the earth . ’ |
| 19 | She came to it and stood and looked down into the dragon 's mouth . |
| 20 | To her relief he took it and did as he was bid . |
| 21 | I am , I fear , betraying the confidence which a banker ought to respect for his customers , but I have thought deeply about it and decided that I must . |
| 22 | ‘ I thought about it and decided that it would have been very awkward both for my father and everyone else , not least myself . |
| 23 | At home I might have fed it to the fish , but here I felt sorry for it and watched until it was time to move on . |
| 24 | I was so green I did n't know what was behind it and boasted that I could become Judge 's Baby when I got back to the dressing-room . |
| 25 | In the end , he told me , he got quite good at it and reckoned that this form of involuntary pitch training was responsible for the fact that he had a good musical ear now . |
| 26 | Corbett , gently dreaming at the end of a bench , could well believe it and wondered if this time Satan would search him out . |
| 27 | They analysed it and found that it was mud , a piece of clay , y'know , but them not being all-forgiving , they suspected that I was using drugs , y'know , so they kicked me out of home and I went to live with my grandmother and then I had more freedom there to do as I pleased and hence started going to pop festivals and things and enjoying them and getting off on them and mixing with that whole subculture if you like . |
| 28 | Eddie wanted Angy to end it but said that she was too soft-hearted . ’ |