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

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1 I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down .
2 I tried to swallow and it hurt .
3 I once garnered a useful titbit about Indian life from a documentary about the highest balloon flight in the world because I happened to see that it took place in the centre of the Indian sub-continent where the air can be particularly still .
4 I decided to leave before it got dark , first thanking the Padre and his two Breton friends for their very kind hospitality .
5 I feared to find that it had changed , as many had told me , beyond recognition .
6 And I could n't bear to be with women I did like because it reminded me forcibly that they did n't turn me on . ’
7 He was amazed with the improvement I had made and it showed just what can be achieved with hard practice .
8 I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you .
9 I had assumed that it meant the characteristic of being alive , livingness , whatever it is that makes life life .
10 The argument became heated when I refused to agree that it did not matter if the document was authentic or not .
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