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

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31 I thought if it makes it growl only .
32 ‘ But I understood that it had been arranged that one of us was to go into each room . ’
33 I took it , I , he said well try it and we went round it in first and I went and it went rrah
34 It had n't er I went when it opened .
35 ‘ I made a list of everything I bought and it came to around £700 .
36 Yes I did , it started going , I do n't know what I did but it started going it started
37 I feel today the excitement of that encounter almost as keenly as I did when it took place over fifty years ago .
38 I chose the example I did because it gave an important history of another library , Glasgow , and because it had also belonged at one time to the Guildhall Library , which had passed it on to them .
39 She was always quiet , which I liked because it gave me a chance to talk without interruption .
40 In a letter to my wife I said that it looked as if my job was to try to give them new faith and hope .
41 I said well I 'll buy the two leave them there I said but it 's done so simple .
42 Does n't make it any better if you messed about it picked up what I said but it did n't pick up very well what Jenny said .
43 I said if it does n't come in at two anyway and I 'll lend you something
44 er , I said if it had been a normal Saturday I said we 'd have cancelled that you know , we 'd have met you in Duffley but er , I said my mum 's supposed to be dancing .
45 ‘ It has to be the worst year of my career given the expectations I had when it started .
46 I I had and it took me ages to get it all back in .
47 I got one of them and I had and it 's got that in it .
48 Carefully , I removed the hook ; and then , cradling the trout between cupped hands in the water , I waited until it darted off into the depths .
49 When I reached my flat on the ground floor of a huge house in a quiet road off Putney Hill , I reflected that it had been , to put it very mildly , a somewhat taxing day .
50 I thought I would go home when I left but it has been a long time .
51 I even joined a group for divorced men but in the end I left because it fed my negativity instead of alleviating it .
52 Of course I suspected where it had come from .
53 I supposed that it did endorse part of Ewen Mackay 's story .
54 I wondered whether it had been his bright idea that sent them there .
55 I wondered whether it had .
56 I wondered if it had been here tonight . ’
57 This is n't what I wanted but it feels right .
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