Example sentences of "[adv] i [vb past] it [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , instinctively I knew it would pass . |
| 2 | It is funny , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , how reluctant I was to say anything like that here in the first few days , how instinctively I felt it might endanger the entire project , how everything might collapse around me the moment I said that . |
| 3 | She said no I think I 'll go home I 'll be alright , so I took her back home about eleven and erm erm I kept phoning her every hour on the hour just to make sure she 's alright , then I said I want you just to promise me one thing you 're not do anything silly , I 'm here , I do n't care what it takes , I 'm here , so she said alright then , so I said it 'll break mum 's heart it 'll break dad 's heart , |
| 4 | ‘ But if we 're going to spend the evening together I thought it would help if we knew more about each other 's backgrounds . ’ |
| 5 | Later I realised it would have been wiser to have made a stitch on the empty needles and worked a couple of rows before finishing . |
| 6 | Then I thought it would terminate it quite quickly because erm it start erm |
| 7 | but then I thought it might take up too much space . |
| 8 | From that day I ate only pasta dressed with butter and felt safe , because I knew that however late I arrived it would have been saved for me ; no one else would eat it plain . |