Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] it [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would have married sooner but had to wait for her divorce ; Pamela Chrimes told me that it took some time to obtain the evidence of adultery which was then necessary . |
| 2 | So , I told them that it had new blades on but they wanted it really tight , and they wanted tightening up and that so yeah . |
| 3 | Over the next 12 months , it will buy another 1.89% in the open market , and gets an option on a further 4% for another $150m from Olivetti 's shareholders ' syndicate by June 1994 ; that adds up to 9.92% , which if it paid current prices for the shares it buys in the market would represent a total investment of about $330m . |
| 4 | Those disciples , they had the storm stilled for them and it got easier sailing . |
| 5 | Such a gene could pay for itself if it motivated little girls to in fact compete with their brothers for what their brothers might otherwise er get uncontested . |
| 6 | And Creggan followed her helpless gaze , out past the bars to the great sky itself and it seemed that direction came suddenly to him at last . |
| 7 | Under the auspices of Scottish/Canadian editor Andy Gray , the paper was faced with a dilemma and one that it had great difficulty resolving , namely how a paper still steeped in show business traditions could come to terms with a new music that was deliberately and defiantly anti-commerciality and the supposed ‘ circus ’ of the pop world . |
| 8 | I said , ‘ Cynthia would n't let him ’ , which was silly of me because it aroused several emotions in my mother . |
| 9 | He learned to use his charm , and ‘ it became ’ , his biographer says , ‘ so strong a factor in him that it resembled great beauty in a woman ’ . |
| 10 | She could tell by the feel of it that it had some papers inside , but she did not look at them . |
| 11 | The house was in bad shape when they bought it and it took six months to finish . |
| 12 | Using the Temple as a short cut was also forbidden by Jewish Law and yet the priests turned a blind eye to it because it brought more trade into the Temple . |
| 13 | A fist flew towards him on the screen , filled it as it made apparent impact and then vanished away . |
| 14 | She heard a car go up the road and then still heard it as it travelled some way along the road at the top , and realised the wind must be coming from the south for the sound to come to her so distinctly . |
| 15 | Ever a man for taking the particular to exhibit the general , this allowed him a global crack at the Scots : he claimed that they were not interested in doing anything unless it had natural awkwardness in it : ‘ What can not be done without some uncommon trouble or particular expedient , will not often be done at all . |