Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But er we eventually beat it though and as I say a good colliery you could er you could beat 'em to it . |
| 2 | We termed it thus because the depression arose from role performance and not from their psychopathology . |
| 3 | Considering the tenoning half of his design , I modified it so that it could quickly accommodate a different pair of blocks for each differently angled tenon . |
| 4 | The blade tore Isambard 's cotte not an inch below his heart , but he had caught the lunging wrist in his left hand and jerked it outwards and downwards , and the thrust sliced through cotte and shirt down his ribs , and left only a harmless surface graze behind . |
| 5 | The Economist called it the Consumer-Credit Snowball and pronounced it well and truly rolling . |
| 6 | While these southern Americans believed their region unified by its homogeneity , what actually drew it together and made it conscious to itself was its deep and ( according to white Southern belief ) ineradicable , division — into white and black . |
| 7 | Correctly surmising that theirs was the room with the broken bolt hanging from the door , he entered it just as I was catching up with him . |
| 8 | I mean I payed it obviously because you If you live you live in er you live in the land you 've got to pl go by the law . |
| 9 | The government 's representative at the inquiry , Energy Department official Christopher Wilcock , described it openly as ‘ a broad , political — and I stress the word political — strategic judgement ’ . |
| 10 | When he saw the finished portrait Cocteau was shaken and described it privately as ‘ diabolical ’ . |
| 11 | Other car industry sources described it variously as " utopian " and " unreasonable " , and said it was not being taken seriously . |
| 12 | Border described it all as media nonsense , saying he had , in fact , stayed behind to attend to some personal business . |
| 13 | A silver cup whizzed an inch wide of her father 's ear ; her eldest brother caught it just before it sailed out of an arrow-slit window . |
| 14 | Yet he still held her hand , and she grasped it gratefully until they came to an open area where there was a fallen tree trunk . |
| 15 | I just looked down , I seen it then and ah nelly . |
| 16 | As for Peter and Pat Lawford , they fixed it so that John Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe could screw around without Jackie finding out . |
| 17 | We fixed it so that we arrived at lunchtime and joined my parents in a restaurant near their hotel . |
| 18 | Because I had one in the garden here and we moved it actually when we , we took the er hedge out er to put the fence and the gate on er and we moved it somewhere else and it er it just died off . |
| 19 | We moved it once and apparently it had to go a zoo after that cos when we moved it back it was about twelve foot long , and then of course it g grew even larger than that . |
| 20 | For a moment that bordered on eternity , Fran stared at the throbbing centre of her hand , then snatched it away and scrambled from the car , uncaring what interpretation he put on her haste . |
| 21 | He said : ‘ I grabbed the knife and bent it double so it could n't do any more damage . ’ |
| 22 | He frowned , ’ I probably mentioned it here and there . |
| 23 | And then when he gave it up when his wife died , he stopped it then and they changed it into the West Mainland Horse Breeding Society . |
| 24 | I approached it eagerly and touched it . |
| 25 | My mate weighed it too and he could n't make it grow either . |
| 26 | You used it again when you 'd just got off the train from Paddington tonight , when you pretended you were waiting for Mrs Downes — ’ |
| 27 | The House passed this by 416–0 , and the Senate by 88–2 , and Johnson constantly used it later when he stepped up American involvement in Vietnam . |
| 28 | This was before the ‘ epidemic ’ had reached its current proportions and , being unsuccessful in their enterprise , they used it rather than throw it away . |
| 29 | He used it even though there was now a good straight road running along the edge of the forest . |
| 30 | Thus , the local Serbian chiefs had considerable freedom of action , and most , like Miloš , used it arbitrarily and grew rich and powerful by the exercise of their power . |