Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] it [pers pn] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh it was a horse-drawn , horse-drawn , there were no cars on the road in those days , I think I was one of the earliest to get knocked down by a car actually in Walsall , I was er , when we lived in Street he came down Street and immediately opposite there was a Co-op shop opposite Birds the fruitiers , and mother sent me down to the Co-op and the old trams used to run along the Pleck to Darlaston , Wednesbury and that way on and I ran across the road , past the Co-op the tram and a car must have just bumped into me and he knocked me down , a terrible commotion amongst the folks and could n't have hurt them much , because I got up and ran off , ran off home , so they were restricted in you see and the speed they could go in the car , but the car , the tram car was stopped at the bottom of Street , almost opposite the Co-op and er I must have just run across the road run into the car and more or less bounced off it I should think . |
| 2 | By this time there was very little he did not know about being a prince ; and long before he came to it he would know more than most men born to it about being a king . |
| 3 | If it came to it you could keep them at the Chestnuts over the road . |
| 4 | And so he asked this girl Jane and , and then he asked me and erm and er had I sat down and thought about it I could have said well er what I thought , you know , the correct way er but I thought well there 's correct and there 's correct and I think the right way is to write to it and to say yes thanks |
| 5 | no where erm the multiple concern who looked after that business , where their national account department looked after that corporate we would look after it and where their key account department looked after it you would look after it and is a national account for for erm |
| 6 | In turn Vaughan continued to complain of Minton 's riotous life for if he felt like it he would start jiving in the middle of the night . |
| 7 | he use to have his own house , last year he went into it you 'd think they 'd get some of it and to weed the gardens |
| 8 | If you half-closed your eyes and looked at it you might have likened it to a string of coloured beads . |