Example sentences of "it [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The accidental loss or destruction of a will has no effect upon its validity , and its contents may be proved by the production of copies or drafts , or even by the recollection of persons who have seen it or heard it read . |
| 2 | So , art history only begins after the death of the work , but as long as the work lives , or at least in the first fifty years of its life , it communicates with people living in the same period who have accepted it or rejected it and who have talked about it . |
| 3 | Most of the young , rather shabbily dressed people in the pub shouted over it or craned their heads closer to hear . |
| 4 | The problem with keeping the original ( e.g. as a photocopy , with sections highlighted ) is that you have n't really done anything with it yet : you have n't assimilated it or made it your own , in the sense of fitting it with ( and so allowing it to affect ) your existing thoughts and knowledge . |
| 5 | There was none of the violence of illness in it , no writhing or moaning , and it was never impatient or irritable when Kalchu tried to feed it or probed it for sores . |
| 6 | To the degree that Freeman 's is the best and correct understanding of the play 's real and essential structure , earlier interpreters misunderstood it or understood it less satisfactorily or more superficially . |
| 7 | Had he imagined it or had he seen a light flickering in the window of the St Manicus chapel ? |
| 8 | I burst into tears because I was sure Mum had pawned it or sold it . |
| 9 | Though he never idealised it or pretended it was anything but ‘ the rude rags of nature ’ , he saw things in it to which Crabbe was completely blind or hostile , and he felt their loss when change and ‘ improvement ’ came : |
| 10 | One either hated it or loved it . |
| 11 | At least , I was grateful enough to send them a copy of the thesis , but there is no evidence that they read it or found it useful . |
| 12 | Rather , she must have inherited it or bought it at a jumble sale for the sake of something to cover herself as a rest from her everlasting black or perhaps ( most likely ) found it in a drawer of her newly married bedroom , chosen for her by Uncle Philip as suitable for his wife to wear on Sundays . |
| 13 | Those who could smell the pheromone either loved it or hated it . |
| 14 | You either loved it or hated it . |
| 15 | Since that time , and especially since the year 1914 , every single change in the English landscape has either uglified it or destroyed its meaning , or both . |
| 16 | much attention to it or did they , distract |
| 17 | Had he been a dunce at it or did his present situation , despite the opportunity it affords for the histrionics he so loves , make him feel like pawn ? |
| 18 | Yes er somehow they , they 'd , they 'd got it , or was it or did I have to fill in a a census form just at the time when Paul was with me ? |
| 19 | Certainly my son never let it or allowed anyone to occupy it on either a temporary or permanent basis . |
| 20 | On his own decision to go for the draw with a last-minute John Liley penalty , Richards said pointedly : ‘ Trying to win the game by opting for the scrum would have been a waste of time because the moment we drove for the line , they would have wheeled it or collapsed it . |
| 21 | ‘ There was something about the way she asked it that made me suspicious . |
| 22 | It had a slight curl in it that made her look soft somehow . |
| 23 | And when my mother was baking in a huge ovenware basin , then she 'd have the the erm the flour and the the erm what do you call it that made it rise ? |
| 24 | There was something about it that made it different and she did not know if it was a horse in a class of its own or if that was the rider . |
| 25 | ‘ What was it that made you come after me ? ’ she asked , curious to learn the truth . |
| 26 | There was a sensuousness about it that filled him with a desire to run shouting across it , to roll in it , to bury his face in it and sniff life out of its roots , to draw up his childhood from the green stems , to lie supine and shade his eyes from the sun and dream himself back into nature . |
| 27 | She had never particularly liked the church as a building — there was a coldness and lack of ‘ atmosphere ’ about it that had nothing to do , she felt sure , with the wealthy congregation . |
| 28 | Yeah but I thought in the case of like Petula Clark and Lulu it was because they won it that got them into the scene sort of thing . |
| 29 | It was the child that had to have first consideration , and what had I got to offer it that justified my bringing it into the world ? |
| 30 | He was like a Greek god , except that his hair was black and the nose had a slight curve to it that gave his broad , open features a somewhat predatory look . |