Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [conj] it " in BNC.

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31 I then went on to think about who had clipped Secretary of State Samson 's golden locks and , once again , I realised that it was the right hon. Member for Finchley .
32 The Aldershot method was particularly important for me because I realised that it 's something we use every day or we see every day er and it emotionally prepares the audience the listener for what I 'm going to say .
33 Then they said well and then I realised that it was Fennite and I 'd heard of that
34 equal to supervisor so I crossed that out and then I realised that it said intervene .
35 I did n't really believe it at first , er , and then I received couple or more phone calls from er various people in the industry who er , who were aware of it and started to congratulate me , and then I realised that it was the truth , that er I really did have a big hit record once again with Blue Velvet .
36 In Chapter 2 , I argued that it is very important to test the system as a whole as early as possible rather than to develop components in isolation .
37 Now I found that , you see , cos I passed my eleven plus and I lived in Hampshire and the grammar school was Hampshire Grammar School for Girls , which was quite a long way away from where I lived and it would have entailed a bus and the train and I and there was only me that passed and I , I did n't wan na do it .
38 The boys and I agreed that it had all been so worthwhile .
39 When he insisted he needed a holiday , I agreed that it would be lovely to lie in the sun and swim in the warm Mediterranean , but I could not agree that it was an urgent need .
40 My Lord the the final matter is , my learned friends and I agreed that it would be proper for there to be a further interim payment er in the sum of twenty five thousand pounds .
41 I read a lot of books , and I knew the theory of it very well , but I failed when it came to the practice .
42 I checked and it is forty nine ninety five
43 I registered that it was Mme Guérigny and her brothers and sisters-in-law who uttered the calumnies , and only later that Jean-Claude never took issue with them .
44 ‘ If you do n't ask him with 100 percent commitment and effort he wo n't do it , yet the feeling I got when it suddenly clicked was just amazing ! ’
45 I , with a mother 's intuition , had suspected that ‘ things ’ were not right but I expected that it was one of those ‘ hiccups ’ … ) not so , I 'm afraid .
46 ‘ I had always thought that its grip on me was purely personal , ’ wrote Amanda , ‘ — I loved it simply because it was my home — but then I found that it caught other people in its web too . ’
47 I found that it was easy to read and well organised in eight chapters .
48 Each repeated the other 's remarks and on the couple of occasions that I went there when Sparks were crowded out , I found that it was extremely difficult not to laugh .
49 I found that it was vital to keep them under water when moving them after I had experienced problems with eggs which were accidentally exposed to air which probably dried them out .
50 Sometimes I found that it was better left off , but equally it could often provide the missing element in certain sounds .
51 Once I got used to the screen , I found that it was OK to use , but I suspect that it would n't suit everybody .
52 The top rail is joined to the uprights by dovetail housings and to cut the mortises for the laths I found that it was best to hold the rail in the vice with blocks to pack it out and then to cut down vertically .
53 I found that it is the planning of this , that it 's also choir rehearsals , and certain school activities that do clash .
54 To my great surprise and that of everyone else , I found that it meant that black holes are not completely black .
55 I finally got one job offer , but when I turned up to work I found that it had been a mistake .
56 Of course , I had never walked in snow before , and I found that it made my feet very cold .
57 er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something
58 McAllister , who had put the doll down , and was now fetching out her work basket to embroider pansies on some fine lawn dresses made for the bazaar by the aforesaid ladies , said , ‘ I did n't mean to become involved , you know , but Matey has been so kind to me — when not slave-driving me , you understand — that when she asked me to accompany her I had not the heart to refuse , and strangely , after I began to work for the bazaar , I found that it was most rewarding . ’
59 I thought for two days that the machine had swallowed it and it was only on the monday morning on the way to the bank that I found that it had miraculousloy reappeared in my wallet again .
60 Thus , in spite of the large amount of flying experience I had accumulated overseas , I found that it was of little use to me back in the UK , I did find , however , that my seniority as an NCO seemed to attract functions that I found difficult to avoid .
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