Example sentences of "[adv] it [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it scarcely mattered to him . |
| 2 | So it just got to the point when he was getting real busy and I did n't want to put my fate in someone else 's hands — even though my way it was a much slower progression . |
| 3 | Erm so it always seemed as if something else was the trigger for friendships . |
| 4 | He noticed the change in her behaviour but she was more intelligent than he was and so it never occurred to him she had had an affair . |
| 5 | So had she once walked and talked herself in that same garden — or so it now seemed to her — with the young Irishman who had recovered the amethyst and diamond cat which she still wore , very often on her collar and which she had longed — very badly , she remembered — to give him as a keepsake . |
| 6 | Yeah , they 're quite soft anyway it just felt as if they were sort of my toes were sort of jammed up against the end but |
| 7 | Capitalism needed the house of correction , and somehow it magically came into being as a result . |
| 8 | I came up here thinking I would ; I assumed I 'd need to offload on somebody , but somehow it never seemed to be the right time to introduce the subject . |
| 9 | Moreover it inevitably ran into difficulties and criticism in the early 1980s when the American economy was in serious trouble — with a steep rise in oil prices and no agreement on how to conserve energy , and with inflation , unemployment and interest rates all running at a high level . |
| 10 | Mm I had to go back it suddenly occurred to me I 've got the back door key but it might still have been bolted . |
| 11 | I replied : " Well it never occurred to me to put it anywhere else ; this is the engineering hangar area and you could find out very quickly , once you jack up this port wing , what happened to the undercarriage . " |
| 12 | Well it certainly did in both these cases . |
| 13 | 2 weeks ago it finally came to trial 2 weeks ago and today was the day of judgement , but she 's still waiting . |
| 14 | Here it probably happened by sailing into the steep wave resulting in a sudden loss of speed . |
| 15 | And from then on it steadily increased in volume as he produced those familiar songs with which he is most popularly associated , such as Granada , Cara mia mine , Sorrento and Tosti 's L'ultima canzone . |
| 16 | Sometimes it just rushed round things ; other times it flattened all in its path then picked up the debris and flung it away . |
| 17 | Anna Freud , from her work in the Hampstead Clinic , likewise found that young children could endure the experience of bombing with relative equanimity if in the care of their mothers ; sometimes it even appealed to their natural feelings of aggression . |
| 18 | Did they actually , they thought then it just ended like drop off . |
| 19 | Arctic sunsets can last many hours ; I once watched one sun take four hours to touch the sea , and then it immediately started into reverse and rose again . |
| 20 | The number who cited defence as ‘ extremely important ’ for their voting decision rose from 42 per cent at the start to only 49 per cent in the third week and then it also stabilized at that level . |
| 21 | If other cities are a guide to Milan then it also served as a useful quarry for the inhabitants . |
| 22 | then it gradually reduced to two , right at the end we were getting |
| 23 | Then it gradually went from five pounds to ten . |
| 24 | Then it suddenly dawned on me , why Thursday . |
| 25 | Then it suddenly occurred to one of the party that these must be the first set of revolving doors Hannah had ever encountered , so he leaned forward and set them moving . |
| 26 | Instead it slowly froze in a magma chamber into a mush of coarse crystals . |
| 27 | Yet it also represented at least a first step towards an institutional framework for dialogue between State and commoners . |
| 28 | Yet it also testified to the increasing power of the new medical strategy and its ability to force a dialogue with competing political forces . |
| 29 | Her theory had been proved , yet it still seemed like a fairy story . |
| 30 | ( Old hands recall how Punch , on a day off from the Paris bureau in 1955 , saw a sports car plough into the crowd at Le Mans and kill 87 people ; no other reporter from the newspaper was there , yet it never occurred to Punch to call his office . ) |