Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] it [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1990 it came of age , in 1991 it carried on where it left off with a superb Easter opening at a cold and windy Donington Park , England … |
| 2 | The back row simply carried on where it left off against the Welsh with the indestructible McBride , Robinson and O'Hara repeatedly first to the breakdown . |
| 3 | The towpath proper did n't start until a few yards further down where it angled away from the road and followed the river ; here it was marked by a narrow strip of waterside grass and trees that would immediately raise the cost of any overlooking property by at least ten thousand . |
| 4 | On occasions , wage pressure exploded in very sharp increases , especially where it had previously been compressed by incomes policies . |
| 5 | Albert said : ‘ They even held her train as she walked in so it did n't get wet . ’ |
| 6 | Perhaps if it had not been for the Shakoor Rana affair the TCCB might have handled this quietly and sensibly by issuing a non-committal statement and letting the fuss die down . |
| 7 | Perhaps if it had n't happened so handily by chance , he would have engineered a meeting . |
| 8 | The iceberg was 155 km long until it broke up last year . |
| 9 | It seemed bigger than the sun and it sailed with a peculiar swiftness up into the heavens , growing paler and brighter as it did so until it lit up the plain with a dull , yellow light . |
| 10 | so if it did n't come on the Monday it could come on the Tuesday , by next week |
| 11 | We called it that so if it leaked out it would get mixed up with the old Winter Garden names . ’ |
| 12 | Vet Steve Gillian told David and Pauline Drury and their 16-year-old twins , Beverley and Paul , the cat would have to be put down if it did not have the operation . |
| 13 | it would n't of been put in if it had n't been accurate at the time |
| 14 | He had been looking forward to ‘ getting away ’ as he put it , perhaps because it sounded more therapeutic than ‘ going on holiday ’ . |
| 15 | Apparently because it had n't been done before … |
| 16 | When the campaign opened , it was not immediately obvious which particular issues the parties would choose to stress ; but by the middle of the campaign it was clear that the Conservatives were focusing on defence issues where their policy was so much more popular than Labour 's , if only because it seemed so much simpler to explain . |
| 17 | If his judgement rankled , it was only because it accorded perfectly with my own . |
| 18 | No. 28 was noticeable only because it did not have net curtains , just long , dark purple ones which were almost drawn across the front room window . |
| 19 | They were turned down because it did not fit the criteria . |
| 20 | Although Chancellor Kohl later agreed to an apparent compromise it was clear even then — how much more so now — that West Germany had killed the programme , and it had done so because it sensed far better than any of its Nato partners how completely President Gorbachev had changed the situation in Europe . |
| 21 | Well i it 's been down since it opened so that 's |
| 22 | It was a pity that it would be blown to atoms long before it got there . |
| 23 | It would therefore not be too long before it settled down to a stationary state . |
| 24 | That was the priority now ; to set the vision down before it slipped away ! |
| 25 | I was so convinced of my calling so before it got that far I had to step hack from the relationship . " |
| 26 | Unionist concerns were still as much with traditional areas of disagreement with the Liberals as with the War ; the UBC made the running with its concern to shield British industry from the war , much as it had previously been intended to protect it through tariffs , and Stanley Baldwin first made his name through its committees . |
| 27 | When no specific instructions are given to candidates about the layout of assignments , any recognised style of layout will be acceptable to the Examiners , so long as it followed consistently . |
| 28 | When no specific instructions are given to candidates about the layout of assignments , any recognised style of layout will be acceptable to the Examiners , so long as it followed consistently . |
| 29 | Dansey did not seek to influence its policy , so long as it kept out of his agents ' way . |
| 30 | For as long as it seemed remotely relevant , the tactic never failed ; and it was easy enough to make it seem relevant in the atmosphere of international hostility of 1945 . |