Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pers pn] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it got him thinking positive . |
| 2 | " At least it got me reading , " she said . |
| 3 | And it got me thinking that there must be thousands of people up and down the country doing worthwhile things to protect our environment and wildlife who go unrecognised . |
| 4 | ‘ After we defeated defending champions Castlerock in the semi-finals , he thumped a table with his two All-Ireland Senior Cup medals before the final saying … ‘ this is what it is all about ’ … and it got us going again against Warrenpoint . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ All right , so you made a mistake , but it got you going , did n't it ? |
| 6 | It entertained me watching you try . |
| 7 | Not that it stopped her talking about the Jesus who was the centre of her life . |
| 8 | ‘ It stopped me having a normal childhood . |
| 9 | It stopped them reacting violently because it stopped them reacting at all . ’ |
| 10 | It stopped them reacting violently because it stopped them reacting at all . ’ |
| 11 | Colonel Goreng was moving away from the details of the operation to talk about the Western concept of ‘ human rights ’ , to mock it , to say what a ridiculous shibboleth it was when it stopped you defending the rights of those who were n't criminals , when Mrs Goreng knocked on the door . |
| 12 | Sometimes the duchess held the syringe all the way through a play , claiming it prevented her getting a headache in the stuffy theatre . |
| 13 | I tell ya , it threw me having those tormented eyes of Clift staring just above me . ’ |
| 14 | It showed her developing trying to understand what was happening to her life . |
| 15 | And this chap in pen , and it showed them drawing on his lips when he was anaesthetized where you |
| 16 | He argued so acutely and convincingly that each party hoped for victory when it heard him arguing on its behalf and there was no advocate who appeared before him who did not greatly fear his cross-examination and interventions . |
| 17 | It started me going out and meeting people . |
| 18 | It started him thinking harder than ever about the woman who he was certain had borne his own child . |
| 19 | The shock and force of it sent her reeling back against the wall once more . |
| 20 | It sent her backing nervously towards the casement window as if to set a safer distance between the two of them . |
| 21 | It kept her going , especially when she was angling for the notice of the one man who , after giving her dinner on the way back from Bovington , had treated her with only a lighthearted pleasant banter whenever they met . |
| 22 | OK it had the batteries stuck in with sticky tape , but it kept me going through fifteen Agatha Christies and hundreds of hours of revision — well , pretend revision . |
| 23 | The fear was in not being able to keep up , in looking stupid ; it kept him going , he did n't want them to know he was scared of falling too . |
| 24 | It kept him going . |
| 25 | A funeral lit them up , it was like fuel , it kept them burning for days . |
| 26 | If it meant her staying in power that , I mean she |
| 27 | ‘ I thought perhaps things would be better if we had some time away from each other , so I agreed , even though it meant her taking time off from school before the end of term . |
| 28 | It meant me having to dash back to England because my passport was at home , and we 'd got no tickets . |
| 29 | It was not a risk he was likely to take , even if it meant him staying at his desk for the next twenty-four hours . |
| 30 | She did not know of the vow he had made that if it ever did come he would make sure she was the first to go , even if it meant him staying in the Cages . |