Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I took myself off to my billet , feeling bloody frustrated and edgy , might I add , and thence to bed , where I thought about it . |
| 2 | ‘ Where I come from it 's tougher country than this . ’ |
| 3 | erm in the days when they had terraced houses back to back terraced houses erm well anywhere in the country I guess but but where I come from it was fine for the people who lived with their doors on the on the road but the people who lived at the other side of the block they could n't get from the road so every so often down the down the terrace they had a little alley way an entry I think you 'd probably call it in Scotland , do n't they ? |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm annoyed about that , it was only when I began touring that I heard about it , ’ she told the BBC 's top children 's programme Going Live . |
| 5 | Now in the period that I come into it would be the First World War , when we had er , of course in these days , the thing we always , to look at the motor trade then , it was a follow up from the carriage trade . |
| 6 | I do that new bit cos it 's hard that I go through it about eight times . |
| 7 | He had known where the coal was kept , and the Calor gas poker , and he had had a key — which , now that I thought about it , I should certainly have asked him to hand over to me … |
| 8 | And now that I thought about it , I had vaguely wondered at the ‘ good time ’ I had made on my walk from the cottage , and at the leisurely stretch of time I had had on the island . |
| 9 | Erm , I pressed yes for having liking my own body , and I do , erm but I also like the slight improvements that I make on it like erm my hair |
| 10 | Now that I think about it , very , very lucky indeed . |
| 11 | Now that I think about it , his behaviour had been a little odd . |
| 12 | I realize , now that I think about it , that even our weekend walks in the countryside around London , with their characteristic mixture of dullness and reassurance , are going to take quite a lot of analysis . |
| 13 | ‘ Now that I think about it , back home Prince is either the name of a rock singer — or a dog , ’ Caroline said slowly . |
| 14 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 15 | When this book was donated I borrowed it ti read , and it was not until I came home from the final clearing-up , and found my ‘ man of the house ’ serenely reading it , that I remembered about it . |
| 16 | So if you are using these , I 've got one of these at home in my lounge and the only thing that I run from it is my television set and the video recorder . |
| 17 | ‘ But that 's hardly more than I paid for it ! ’ protested Edward Crumwallis , his voice high with outrage and fear . |
| 18 | ‘ Allowing for inflation , it 's very much less than I paid for it . ’ |
| 19 | Then I 'ad to get a job ; that 's when I saw a notice in a shop window about a Brixton fam'ly wantin' a maid , so I went after it . |
| 20 | But I was bad again , so I came off it . |
| 21 | Their advertising was persuasive and their prices attractive , on the surface , so I fell for it like so many others . |
| 22 | Good intentions , of course , are said to pave the way to hell , but one must , like Edward Teller , be optimistic , so I turned to it ( 9 February ) to watch the rubbing together of two creative intellects , those of John Berger and Susan Sontag who were to discuss/argue/disagree about storytelling . |
| 23 | I needed some comfort after the election result so I turned to it for some like-minded thought . |
| 24 | No one wanted me to do the set , so I paid for it myself . |
| 25 | Only twice has a piece of work been unusable , in which case , he says , ‘ it 's my mistake in choosing an artist who was n't up to the commission , so I pay for it anyway and just do n't use it ’ . |
| 26 | And saying that , in the last three years I since discovered , and it was quite difficult to , which I did find , that there was alternative erm therapists , which was lots of groups that were going on and once I got into it erm the , it opened up a new , you know I ne I 've never saw the light at the tunnel that is shining brightly now ! |
| 27 | Once I get into it though I snake on before anyone else gets on . |
| 28 | Crilly comes to my bedside with a neatly prepared square of foil and a tube , and I suck from it happily . |
| 29 | There was one particular hole and I looked at it and thought , in a million years we will never get up there . |
| 30 | ‘ When at Fort Desire , in Patagonia ( lat 48 ’ ) , Mr Martens shot an ostrich ; and I looked at it , forgetting at the moment , in the most unaccountable manner , the whole subject of the petise , and thought it was a two-third grown one of the common sort . |