Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [subord] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Giral government , consisting entirely as it did of bourgeois Republicans , was increasingly irrelevant to the new situation . |
| 2 | Ma is thin and she 's not all that strong , but she did have a go , persevering even after it mowed down most of her prize herb bed . |
| 3 | Indeed , you get the feeling that there 'd be more than a few pro-war songs knocking about if it shifted the units . |
| 4 | Indeed , you get the feeling that there 'd be more than a few pro-war songs knocking about if it shifted the units . |
| 5 | To prepare for this he had moved many of his photographs , pictures , books and other possessions from London so that the house , though not looking exactly as it did when he was there , became a showplace bursting with Shaviana . |
| 6 | On the fault-tolerance front IBM says that Mode 3 substantially cuts the delay between the one machine failing and the other one picking up where it left off ; by the company 's own estimation the switch can take from anywhere between a long 30 seconds to a horribly long five minutes in modes 1 and 2 . |
| 7 | Bishop Farquhar said that it was a matter of history which part of that circle happened to be passing by as it cut through the life of the Edwards family . |
| 8 | I played outside , running around in a pair of shorts and — I imagine-quite happy to have the whole pregnancy thing going on because it gave me more freedom to do as I liked about the house and garden , free from my father 's supervision . |
| 9 | The jharo flared through the darkness , twisting and somersaulting , spiralling down until it landed in the village square , flickered momentarily , then died . |
| 10 | It has also warned that some customers could be faced with paying more if it lost its hold on the household market . |
| 11 | They 're using all this technology now to get the same sounds we used to get by turning up until it distorted . |
| 12 | She cut another cross , wondering vaguely if it had a religious significance . |
| 13 | The two-year row has been rumbling on since it became clear the Ffestiniog Company had taken an interest in the project . |
| 14 | I was so convinced of my calling so before it got that far I had to step hack from the relationship . " |
| 15 | Cobalt said : ‘ He did n't mind her staying longer because it meant he was to be paid more . |
| 16 | Now , at the age of fifty-odd , the name was pathetically incongruous , calling up as it did someone fresh , compact and sparkling , with an air of crisp , but old-world domesticity . |
| 17 | The plane touched down , bounced up again , slewed sideways and skidded along the runway , breaking up as it did so ; the port wing broke off and the rest of the plane turned over on top of it . |
| 18 | One evening , as we stood talking by the shore , I saw a strange , beautifully shaped bird flying fast over the sea , rising in a long , slow arch , calling hauntingly as it flew . |
| 19 | He released a catch , springing open the bonnet , and twisted a metal cap , stepping back as it made a loud hissing sound . |
| 20 | The question , coming suddenly as it did , caught Tam unguarded . |
| 21 | I did not know whom I might meet there , and cramped as I as I did not fancy my chances at running away if it came to a straight chase on a hard surface . |
| 22 | This time warm air came from the south , hotting up as it passed over warm land . |
| 23 | Calday Grange Grammar School also faced a second ballot over opting out after it applied for grant-maintained status last year . |
| 24 | Fenella , clinging to self-control , thought that it was a gobbling , lip-smacking sound , as if the soupy fluid was savouring her , as if it was going to enjoy bubbling upwards until it had engulfed her entire body … |
| 25 | It is hard to say how directly the King reminded the Company that it was doing well because it had been granted a monopoly of the English market . |
| 26 | I sat at the kitchen table , staring at the blind white blankness in front of me , and slowly , like a clear spring welling up from the common earth , the poem rose and spread and filled me , unstoppable as flood water , technique unknotting even as it ran , like snags rolled away on the flood . |
| 27 | A crack the size of the Grand Canyon streaked up the drive , stopping only when it reached the garage doors . |
| 28 | As I sat there with metal ticking away as it cooled and steam rising around the engines , I tried to open the door only to find it jammed . |
| 29 | As I sat there with metal ticking away as it cooled and steam rising around the engines , I tried to open the door only to find it jammed . |
| 30 | She was wasting her time ; without knowing exactly where it had been lying , there was no means of identifying the spot from where it had fallen . |