Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My flower — the one that I remember best out of many — was gathered where I said it had been . |
| 2 | Although I knew it moved rapidly , all I had of it in my memory was a series of still pictures , captured in rain by lightning . |
| 3 | ‘ It was just that I heard it call so I knew there must be one about . ’ |
| 4 | But that I raised it knowing you hate it . |
| 5 | Only the pain was getting rather tedious and Meg insisted that I had it done now before I retired , on the theory I suppose , that better in the Government 's time than my own . " |
| 6 | The thought of describing it out loud to over a hundred people made it feel less convincing than I thought it had been . |
| 7 | It it goes further south than I thought it did . |
| 8 | I had no intention of taking the Transit up West — I 'd had enough trouble round the launderette , which doubles as a common room for the junior branch of the Hackney National Front — so I left it parked outside the front door in exactly the spot where Frank and Salome usually plug in the nightlight for their VW Golf . |
| 9 | Animals rarely surprise me but there was something about the buck , once I noticed it sitting there , that froze me for a second . |
| 10 | This place must have stood here like this for all those years , and I imagined it retaining always this season , a pocket of perpetual spring — almost a source of spring from which the frozen bare earth in other places could be revivified , as those old maps depict in each corner a Wind holding in his bursting cheeks the force of the wind everywhere . |
| 11 | Against : almost nothing I can put my finger on , except that it 's a darned expensive guitar and I expected it to justify its price by being inspiring — which , for all of us who tried it , it somehow failed to be . |
| 12 | and I had it sharpened by Hector |
| 13 | He brushed the question aside and I realised it had been silly of me to ask it . |
| 14 | It was then I noticed a small cut on his forearm , at least it looked small until it opened up and I realised it went all the way through all the underlying muscles . |
| 15 | I stood looking at it in the darkness , just aware of its bulk in the feeble light of a broken moon , and I thought it looked even bigger than it really was , like a stone-giant 's head , a huge moonlit skull full of shapes and memories , staring out to sea and attached to a vast , powerful body buried in the rock and sand beneath , ready to shrug itself free and disinter itself on some unknowable command or cue . |
| 16 | I was watching for him erm I 'd been to the loo and I glanced out the er landing window and I thought it looked too tall for you . |
| 17 | I was apprenticed at Swindon in the steam age and I thought it had passed . |
| 18 | I thought about it calmly , still standing there as though nothing had passed through my mind but the continual computation guiding the kite , and I thought it seemed reasonable . |
| 19 | The memory of my encounter with Jeanne Kennedy and how I 'd run away remained and I thought it stayed with me from shame . |
| 20 | there was a big discussion about the standard report , it wo n't cover five years and I said it does n't have to cover five years , it never has done it 's only covered four cos we what we do in year eleven is different anyway . |
| 21 | ‘ You 've probably ruined that dress , ’ said Lili , and I said it did n't matter . |
| 22 | ‘ Initially we were running with two large water pumps and I felt it did n't require full flow from both of them . |
| 23 | and that was my Barclaycard number in case you want it although I ordered it through the thr phone I made out that so that I could read it off on the telephone I did n't even erm I did n't even assemble it I just looked and I saw it does n't chop I thought it would chop things but does n't , it only grates Looks as though it had been out before , you know , you look at this ! |
| 24 | A fine stone bridge spans the beck below Swinner Gill Kirk and I crossed it to follow the gill back below Moss Dam Hags and out along the top of Arn Gill Scar . |
| 25 | I think a medical problem different say for instance for myself I got an awful bash on the nose playing badminton and they thought it was broken , however it mended and I wished it had broken because its mended a bit , but I do not believe in spending money on cosmetic surgery because I think if you make the best of what you have and think of all the people were mutilated by disease |
| 26 | My hair had more shine than before and I found it left a stronger smell than other conditioners which I really liked . |
| 27 | It 's a memory-hungry process and I found it worked best on machines with more than 4Mb of RAM . |
| 28 | It was so wonderful and I wanted it to go on forever . |
| 29 | Sounded rather forward-thinking for a major record company and I wanted it confirmed … |
| 30 | If I got it lying , where , if I 've got it in the bank and it 's there ready it 's , there 's nay problem is there ? |