Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb past] that it [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 Erm yeah I th I mean I , I 've got more or less all the points that have been raised but I , I just felt that it went it er it was almost as though you 'd made your mind up before you went in that you were gon na tell him what compressed funds was
2 I just thought that it seemed to be , you know ?
3 and , I did n't so much I just thought that it happened to me
4 I never thought that it had to be a ‘ rule ’ . ’
5 If the invitation had come as a result of anxious discussion with Jenny about Cassie 's state of mind , and she rather thought that it had , Ben showed no sign of it .
6 I wondered if she still felt that it had been worthwhile to appear in the film .
7 She also knew that it meant that we could have a car when otherwise we could n't .
8 But although we found little , report had magnified our findings in no ordinary degree and we afterwards learnt that it had gone over the country around that we had dug up a great treasure of gold .
9 If they believed they had ‘ natural ability ’ , they well knew that it had to be refined and fastened by a bridle of discipline .
10 It so happened that it fell to the lot of Geoffrey Holton and Chris Protheroe to do the donkey work in the Lusaka accident , but it could have been any of the twenty or so investigators in AIB .
11 It so happened that it turned out a good thing that it did n't get posted , but that was just a lucky chance .
12 Whilst there are undoubted cultural factors acting on the latency phenomenon , as Freud himself recognized , he nevertheless maintained that it rested on a biological , innate foundation .
13 He soon learned that it had come ashore on the island of Cyprus , where the ruler , Isaac Ducas Comnenus , had already seized several survivors from other wrecks and now virtually held Richard 's bride and his sister to ransom .
14 Otis Ferguson was aware that the film depicted a ‘ phony strike ’ and that there was no real analysis of labour-management problems but he still felt that it had ‘ this air of life whatever we may think of its social content ’ .
15 On the contrary , he also asserted that it needed variation .
16 He ordered the tomb of Cyrus at Pasargadear to be well preserved , and he was infuriated when he later discovered that it had been vandalized .
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