Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] it [vb past] [det] [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 I said , ‘ Cynthia would n't let him ’ , which was silly of me because it aroused several emotions in my mother .
3 She could tell by the feel of it that it had some papers inside , but she did not look at them .
4 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 .
5 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 .
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