Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [pron] [vb past] it [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's taking a few days ’ vacation out there , right now , so Pat and I thought it would be a good idea to let Fred Klepner stand in . |
| 2 | Neither was listening to the other talk and I thought it would be a good moment to fetch the rhubarb tart . |
| 3 | The ideal should be a circular seat but I felt it would take a considerable amount of timber with a lot of waster so I opted for an hexagonal shape . |
| 4 | Cos there was one in July and I suspected it would clash with holidays , which it probably does , so the November one I 'm trying for . |
| 5 | Buckingham had been the county town in the middle ages and he felt it should be again . |
| 6 | We done everything what you 're supposed to do , Roger and he said it could take days and days for you to get it right ! |
| 7 | The reason why I joined the original class was that I had become intrigued by what I had heard and read about the Technique and I thought it might help prevent a second hip operation . |
| 8 | I said , of course and I said it would be nice company and so she said er you sit near the window , I 've seen it lots of times before , as I only live in Manchester . |
| 9 | ‘ It was a real killer — you lose all your contacts and I knew it would be desperately difficult to come back , ’ he says . |
| 10 | He 's engaged and they 're saving up to get married , but Helen and him thought it 'd be better to buy one now because they 'll have a lot of expenses after they 're married and wo n't have Helen 's wages . ’ |
| 11 | Okay well er I I figure that there must be quite a number of er extraterrestrials around around North Yorkshire and I thought it would be quite nice actually if er if there are any extraterrestrials listening at the moment they could ring in and we could have a chat . |
| 12 | It was my first job and I thought it would be great , ’ she said . |
| 13 | They were , of course , all in pale fright colours and I felt it might be difficult to distinguish the identities of the females . |
| 14 | If we 'd nut spoken to each other for years and he died it would make all the difference to have someone say he was still fond of me . |
| 15 | He would have liked to have gone to his brother 's funeral but he thought it would only have made matters worse . |
| 16 | It was an inconsequential remark but she hoped it might lead to some interesting revelation on Ianthe 's part , that Bishop Heber had been an ancestor or that she loved Victorian poetry , for , looking at the bookshelves , she was sure that she did . |
| 17 | I had an actor once who was condemned to hang for stealing a sheep — or a lamb , I forget which — so I got permission to have him hanged in the middle of a play — had to change the plot a bit but I thought it would be effective , you know — and you would n't believe it , he just was n't convincing ! |
| 18 | She could feel the tip probing up the leg of her panties and she knew it should not be there . |
| 19 | ‘ I happened to see it on my way back from the nursing-home and I thought it would go particularly well with the dress . ’ |
| 20 | Erm , we thought it 'd appeal to young people and we thought it 'd be great fun , which it was , and we raised er one thousand seven hundred pounds . |
| 21 | He needed someone to throw him a lifeline and I decided it might as well be me . |
| 22 | So I had a bath and I thought it 'd warm me up but I was , I was freezing were n't I ? |
| 23 | Anyway , I put it in the paper , phoned in the paper and they said it 'd be at least a week or fortnight before so I did n't like but it never came out in the paper . |
| 24 | Mrs Thatcher has the great virtue of candour , and just before she became Prime Minister she announced in a newspaper interview how she was going to run her Cabinet and she said it must be a ‘ conviction–government . |
| 25 | I also told here it 's the diamond jubilee of the hospital and the children from invited to the hospital that day , that week sorry , it 's gon na be a week in June so she wanted to know the details so I asked Mrs t would she write to Miss White and give her all the details but she thought it would be far better if she went to see her and explain it all . |
| 26 | They both love cuddly toys and I thought it would be a nice idea to have two teddy bears especially dressed in an outfit similar to the ones the two girls are to wear . |
| 27 | BELVILLE : [ aside ] The girl had good sense and I thought it would be some pleasure to watch by what gradation she might be made to rise into love . |
| 28 | ‘ It was an horrendous attack on a little old lady in her bed and whoever did it could strike again . |
| 29 | Visiting her had become part of my life but I knew it would not always be so ; twice I had been summoned to the hospital when she had seemed to be failing . |
| 30 | The contour lines on the map were remarkably close together for the final descent but we decided it could n't be as bad as it looked . |