Example sentences of "[conj] it [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fearon looked temporarily nonplussed , then shrugged , tossed the towel back into the bathroom behind him where it presumably landed on the floor and growled , ‘ All right , I 'll show you around . |
| 2 | I was I was wondering too , myself , as I was travelling here where where it actually came from because er I do n't remember as a child , myself , doing something like this . |
| 3 | He slid his hand to her hip , where it gently rotated in a maddeningly sensual rhythm . |
| 4 | That night , when he awoke in the full certainty that someone else was in the room , he reached for it , where it usually lay by his headrest ; but he had barely moved before he felt its point at his throat . |
| 5 | But instead of looking at her , he was staring down at her hand where it still lay on his arm . |
| 6 | FitzAlan tossed the gown carelessly on to the stool , where it promptly slithered to the floor . |
| 7 | When all else failed , or it simply appealed to her a woman could always turn to the ranks for employment . |
| 8 | Its main targets were imports from Asian countries including China , Taiwan , Hong Kong and South Korea , although it also related to other developing countries . |
| 9 | Although it probably began as a lung , over the course of evolution it has become the swimbladder , an ingenious device with which the fish maintains itself as a hydrostat in permanent equilibrium . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , the actual origin of the mechanical clock remains a mystery , although it probably occurred towards the end of the thirteenth century . |
| 11 | A truly magical moment that ( although it originally appeared on the pair 's ‘ Sometime In New York City ’ epic ) makes this mess necessary . |
| 12 | Mike Nichols stated that one of his ambitions behind the movie was ‘ to stop the Los Angelesisation of America ’ , although it only added to the Los Angelesisation of American movies . |
| 13 | It is a pity that the extent of his involvement with the introduction of monks into Bury St Edmunds is uncertain , although it apparently occurred with his licence . |
| 14 | But the fact that it eventually arrived in Germany was largely thanks to two German MPs , Ursula Seiler-Albring and Ina Albowitz . |
| 15 | An analysis of news originating anywhere away from the line-of-rail showed that it frequently came from such a tour , which shows what difficulty the news media had in getting rural news . |
| 16 | Cairns-Smith 's view of the DNA/protein machinery is that it probably came into existence relatively recently , perhaps as recently as three billion years ago . |
| 17 | There were so many cracks in it now that it barely held at all . |
| 18 | He then laid the tape across the diameter so that it exactly stretched from one side of the circle to the other . |
| 19 | I was in complete agreement with the pathologist 's view … that death resulting from status asthmaticus is death due to ‘ natural causes ; ’ and since there was nothing to suggest , in my opinion ( then and now ) , that the death was ‘ violent or unnatural , ’ or that it otherwise fell within the provisions of section 19(4) of the Act [ of 1988 ] , I was satisfied , in all the circumstances , that an inquest was unnecessary . |
| 20 | In the 1960's the date was changed to a Sunday to make it easier for people , but there was such an outcry that it soon reverted to the traditional Friday . |
| 21 | She 's got lots of curly brown hair with a little heart-shaped face in the middle , and her smile was so big that it nearly disappeared into the curls at each side . |
| 22 | Another supplier was South Africa whose huge Armscor factory in Johannesburg had supplied Iran with all the 120-mm guns that it fruitlessly fired across the desert in this never-ending conflict , and much else besides . |
| 23 | Dicey argued , not only that belief in the inherent excellence of federalism was a ‘ delusion ’ , but that it also ran against the grain of English history : |
| 24 | As a detectorist I now know that it also led to the loss of Civil War coins , militaria and other relics in the vicinities of sieges . |
| 25 | The only thing is that this text gives no reason to suppose that it also applied in cognitio . |
| 26 | Feeling certain that her imagination was playing tricks on her , Fabia , who knew that Ven was still in Prague , saw that it just had to be that Lubor owned an exactly identical pair of shoes . |
| 27 | Now , she could see that it even looked like Clive . |
| 28 | I began to feel myself being pulled further and further under the water , I screamed and swore but nobody seemed to hear or believe me and then my head went under and all I remember is a feeling of despair as I squeezed the tree trunk only to find that it simply crumbled in my hands . |
| 29 | One of the critics of the Touche Ross report , Professor Arthur Midwinter , of the department of politics at Strathclyde University , said last night that it now looked as if the scope for savings would be narrowed to the point where it had to be asked whether it was worthwhile proceeding with the reforms . |
| 30 | Paisley about faced and led the parade around the block so that it now came upon Fisherwick Place from the west . |