Example sentences of "it [conj] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least , I was grateful enough to send them a copy of the thesis , but there is no evidence that they read it or found it useful . |
| 2 | ‘ There was something about the way she asked it that made me suspicious . |
| 3 | There was something about it that made it different and she did not know if it was a horse in a class of its own or if that was the rider . |
| 4 | He had worked so long on it and filled it full of malicious remarks at Gina 's expense . |
| 5 | Here and here alone the bourgeois and even more the petty bourgeois family could maintain the illusion of a harmonious , hierarchic happiness , surrounded by the material artefacts which demonstrated it and made it possible , the dream-life which found its culminating expression in the domestic ritual systematically developed for this purpose , the celebration of Christmas . |
| 6 | And they added onto it and made it bigger since . |
| 7 | Who he was she could n't say , because the room was too dark , but he must have left the front door open and the wind must have caught it and made it shut with a crash . |
| 8 | Prentice opened it and wedged it open with a rusted chunk of iron left there for that purpose . |
| 9 | He knew he had simplified the matter when he said the six thousand would be sent abroad to the War — simplified it and coloured it blood-red . |
| 10 | My wife also read it and declared it superior to the equivalent magazine sent her by her old University — Oxford . |
| 11 | Co-star Adam Faith — himself a big success as a pop star in the Sixties — knows all about making it and warned her that TV fame would have its price . |
| 12 | I recently had some bad news and everyone helped me through it and gave me great support . |
| 13 | So I said I went and lay in the in these bull rushes and I got half a brick , yes , he says , and I saw them coming and he says and I threw it and hit him this er blackleg with this half brick . |
| 14 | ’ He stared , then , with an enormous shrug of reluctance , he walked to the door , unbolted it and edged it open . |
| 15 | But the marketing agencies of all three countries have recently unveiled multi-million pound promotional campaigns for the British market within recent weeks , which would appear to indicate they have researched the market and consumer response within it and found it worthwhile . |
| 16 | Her eyes lit up when she opened it and found it full of farthings . |
| 17 | It 's important to establish the invariable habit of going through replies to all your searches ( the same principle applies to the practical enquiries and requisitions on title ) , ticking each one after you have considered it and found it satisfactory ; if the contrary is the case , or if , for example , some information is disclosed that ought to be passed on to your client , mark it accordingly , and thereafter tick it when you " ve dealt suitably with the item . |
| 18 | Ruth knew it but found it hard to face at times . |