Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [subord] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than that , and far worse , he is aware that he could not have it for himself even if it did exist . |
| 2 | The theory gives an account of what it is for a belief to be luckily true , as follows : the extent to which a 's belief is luckily true is the extent to which even if it had been false , a would still have believed it , or if it were in changed circumstances still true , he would still believe it . |
| 3 | I want to recount an experience that has stayed with me ever since it happened , something that transformed an uneventful journey home from work . |
| 4 | Basically you 'd er just stand back and ha Actually in my platoon of fifty men it happened to me more than it happened to anybody else because I came from Glasgow . |
| 5 | If you were aboard a vessel that was either going to go up or drag you down when it sank , what would your natural reaction be ? ’ |
| 6 | I think perhaps that I actually needed to be able to think the worst of you , however personally unpalatable that worst was to me , as some sort of a defence , so that I could despise you even if it meant despising myself as well . |
| 7 | And were you there when it happened ? ’ |
| 8 | It 's absolutely horrible but Malcolm would insist on taking you there because it made him feel part of some secret society . |
| 9 | And you know that at the same time as you could clout them you 'd actually die for them also if it came to the point . |
| 10 | She sketched even faster , wanting to get everything down before it began to pour with rain . |
| 11 | So far , she had answered everything scrupulously as it came , but the volume threatened to defeat her . |
| 12 | Cardiff had supervised the clearance of the office block , noting wryly that it seemed easier to clear everyone out than it had been to get his original team established . |
| 13 | Punk did n't mean shit to a palm tree to them even if it meant so much to us . |
| 14 | This wanting teased him on as it happened — contingent naturalism — to murder . |
| 15 | He had taken the name of Varna from the name of the port from which he had sailed but he had lived his life in terror of deportation , a fear that had haunted him long after it had ceased to be a real threat , so that he had never been able to enjoy his son 's success , seeing it only as something which drew unwelcome attention to the Varna family . |
| 16 | From point-blank range the first bullet hit him in the stomach , doubling him up as it punched a hole just to the left of his navel , ploughing through intestines before lodging close to his spine . |
| 17 | It pierced the wizard 's forehead and penetrated to his brain as he stood cursing ; death took him unawares as it did Goliath , and his lifeless body fell backwards on to the sand . |
| 18 | The only thing that was any dearer to him now than it had been when he started was his picture of the murdered woman . |
| 19 | It stirred the man in him even as it gored him . |
| 20 | I felt incredibly well , but he said to keep an eye on the swollen gland and to see him immediately if it grew in size . |
| 21 | It appeared that more was required and Liz , resenting the inanity thus forced upon her even as it passed her lips , found herself saying ‘ And how are you looking forward to the 1980s ? ’ |
| 22 | He had travelled back to Keswick with her even though it had not been his previous intention to do so . |
| 23 | ‘ Peter began and explained everything to them precisely as it happened ’ ( Acts 11:4 ) . |
| 24 | Lancaster Gate awoke on Monday to find itself accused of doing nothing almost before it had had time to consider doing anything . |
| 25 | The war affected me chiefly as it affected my personal affairs . |
| 26 | Furious , Wilson went down into the freezing kitchen , where the well banked-up fire had not quite died down , and poked it vigorously until it began to burn up . |
| 27 | I ENJOYED it most because it made me laugh so much . |
| 28 | The Queen and Prince Philip survived it only because it came upon them in middle age — when any youthful indescretion or misbehaviour had long since been enjoyed and then forgotten in the mists of time . |
| 29 | Leroy Brown , at one stage a prodigious sprinter , reflected on a career which never materialized : ‘ I just do n't know why I could n't put it together when it mattered . |
| 30 | The camera followed it down as it walked across her breast ( thirty foot wide ) and past her nipple ( five foot high ) . |