Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] i [vb past] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I loved him so much that I knew it would be all right . |
| 2 | Better than I thought it would be . |
| 3 | The wide , airy nature of the streets here give the city a marvellously spacious feel , so that I found it most easy to spend some hours just strolling in the gently warm sunshine . |
| 4 | What is incontrovertible is only that I had it , not that it was caused by anything ‘ out there ’ beyond my experience . |
| 5 | On evening walks down Loreto , a lane of high stone walls , trying to decide on a restaurant , I would stop and run my hands over the ashlars , marvelling at the purity of each one as I have marvelled at the completeness of a sculpture by Brancusi ; each of them so tightly locked together that I found it impossible to fit a fingernail between them . |
| 6 | It required absolutely no breaking in and I wore it for the first time on a nine hour Scottish hill day during the May heatwave in complete comfort . |
| 7 | Alice wrote it down and I stuck it behind the clock . ’ |
| 8 | So I took the envelope off those tickets and I tore that up and wrote down and I stuck it in the water heater that the sitting room fire may be on , please check . |
| 9 | ‘ Only if I wore it on my head . ’ |
| 10 | Do n't know where I could put you , except in me bedroom , only if I did it might send me young man potty . |
| 11 | My suitcase , I was interested to see , stood in a quiet row of others , accessible enough if I wanted it . |
| 12 | Often , I would n't bother to try things on — I 'd look at the price tag and think ‘ I 've got to have this , ’ especially if I thought it was a ‘ bargain ’ I might not see again . |
| 13 | We did n't live together because I felt it would be years before I 'd be reasonable company for another human being . |
| 14 | ‘ Only — only before I did it . |
| 15 | Mm I mean he looked at me like I was a bit silly and it was only when I got it and looked he 'd got after Christmas written |
| 16 | ‘ I must pay tribute to them for both Dominic Quinn from Banbridge and John Bailie from Lurgan told me to take my time with the horse and bring him back only when I felt it was right to do so . |
| 17 | Walked in as I said it . |
| 18 | By the time I reached Tintern I could go in straight lines easily and had a right wrist the size of a tennis ball that was painful to touch and crackled ominously when I flexed it . |
| 19 | It looked dismal enough when I saw it , as if given right over to darkness . |
| 20 | it up again here , so I did n't mi wish to discuss it like this so as I said it 's gon na be twelve months ' time . |
| 21 | yes , mine estimated , said nine hundred and eighty's , nine , eight , six , four and we 've used seven hundred and twenty units or something like that and it was fifty five pound odd , so when I checked it 's , it 's zero , eight , nine , seven something like that |
| 22 | Yeah my hair was that long when I had it cut . |
| 23 | ‘ It is since that I studied it , ’ said Greg . |
| 24 | ‘ It was just that I heard it call so I knew there must be one about . ’ |
| 25 | Just that I caught it as I moved my finger . |
| 26 | It was not too big or cumbersome to take away so I packed it up in my stout old haversack and stepping out of the ruins of the boilerhouse , returned to the shed . |
| 27 | Parting you from Jones that time does n't seem to have curtailed your ongoing little adventure — not that I thought it would . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , not that I knew it at the time , of course , else I 'd never have gone . ’ |
| 29 | Not that I gave it serious thought . |
| 30 | The taxi was clattering away and I thought it would fall apart at any moment . |