Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] it [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | I asked how it happened . |
2 | At the age of sixteen , cos there was hardly anybody else at the place where I lived so it went down to sixteen year olds . |
3 | By the time I got there it had gone . ’ |
4 | When I got there it had gone . ’ |
5 | ‘ I was rather chuffed — then I found out it meant the fat one , ’ reveals Sir Harry . |
6 | I 'm expecting like a lights or something are flashing so I got the off the jet wash and I 'd just about got to the where I started again it 's gone bib bib bib bib bib is that it ? |
7 | I had got one souvenir and if not identifiable with the shed , at least I knew where it had come from . |
8 | If I knew where it had come from I would do it . |
9 | When he was forced to leave Arabia his sense of loss was enormous : ‘ As the plane … swung out to sea , I knew how it felt to go into exile . ’ |
10 | I knew how it felt , and it must be worse for a man . |
11 | I knew how it worked . |
12 | But , ca n't do that , and I thought well it does n't really matter . |
13 | I kept kicking it the other day and I thought well it feels ever so light , I thought there was quite a few left . |
14 | And then I thought well it 's , it 's got , it says diamonds and sapphire , I thought they ca n't be real but it says , you know |
15 | When I saw you with your arms around each other , I thought maybe it needed pointing out . ’ |
16 | I mean I , I enquired why it went to the District Council Environment and Planning Committee rather than the Coastal Planning Committee and the one reason I was told was speed , they could get the thing brought up there that much more quickly . |
17 | I did n't it has to be said win the pools last year as I always put Leeds for a win and Scum for a loss . |
18 | He said that was last Friday , oh I said I was filling my timesheet in and my expense sheet , not that long , I said well it takes as long as it takes do n't it ? |
19 | So I said well it depends how much there is you know , we we are only a light removal firm , we do n't have Oh no no well there 's no problem there , it 's only half a houseload . |
20 | to do these at home I said well it had been twenty hours or nothing cos me and my old man do n't speak ! |
21 | No , and I had I er I had tried to appeal to him to be quiet , he said well I 've got to build this shed , I said well it do n't have to be during the night when other people are trying to sleep , he said well that 's up to them , and he started hammering again , while I was talking to him , and then I kept on and on and eventually , I think while I was talking to him I 'd kept him quiet while I was talking to him . |
22 | So I explained to them , I said well that 's cos you changed over and I sort of never put it across through oh she said well do n't worry I 've done it now , she said you have n't got anything to worry about now , I said well it did bother me a bit to think that I did n't think you had my payment ! |
23 | I said well it gives them a bit of panache do n't it ? |
24 | I said well it comes from a man . |
25 | so I said well it cost us just so many weeks though , I 've put it in again , I 've , I 'm sending it back today in the hope that they will come up with a decision in the next week , cos usually once they 've got the information they 'll write back say within ten days yes or no |
26 | I said here it comes , get the saucepans out . |
27 | Ridging and patching were the first jobs that I tackled once it became apparent that I was neither going to find another job nor be content to remain a labourer . |
28 | Oh thank you I wondered where it went and I thought oh shit I 've lost it . |
29 | I wondered where it had got to . ’ |
30 | I wondered how it had happened that so many men owed Félix money . |