Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] i [vb past] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | About this time I had , by a certain wicked attempt — for I had a bold heart which rather put me upon courting than avoiding danger — set a hornet 's nest about my ears so I thought it better to remove myself to France and be a little more discreet in my armours . |
| 2 | My father worked part-time in a dance hall and he picked up a Leeds United badge which I wore everywhere for about 6 months until I lost it : - ( ( ( ( . |
| 3 | but as I wrote this and you know put in the acc th the conflict , it came up to two thousand five hundred words and I taped it and timed it and I 've been butchering it and cutting out all the really nice little sentences and the nice sentences and I 've got it down to two one sixty and now with that announcement on the end , as I 've got it taped , it 's fourteen minutes fifty-nine seconds for a fifteen minute slot , so it 's about as precise as you 're gon na get it . |
| 4 | I thought it was my spine but I could move my limbs so I thought it could n't be too bad . ’ |
| 5 | So he said erm I said to the woman I went to the court this morning so he said when you explain to me he said I 've got money in my pockets cos I borrowed it from dad tha he said I owed sixty two pound so he said I said to the woman in the court how can I pay this the sixty two pounds when you 've frozen my account ? |
| 6 | It does n't have pockets but I liked it because of the red buttons . ’ |
| 7 | The first few times I lit the stove , up popped yellow flames and I turned it off . |
| 8 | I 've got some expenses claim forms cos I thought it would be a good idea to be able to claim expenses , |
| 9 | When I was at college I did a pastiche of the student magazine , doing the fold , and it was called Shell , so we renamed it for that one issue Rolling Shell , and I ever so carefully did the lettering for both the title boxes , then I got really disappointed when it came to set the type for the front page article underneath the big photograph which we printed as duo tone , because I could do it on the I B M — I could actually do it in Times and I thought it was going to be really , you know , I 'd have to really struggle and find |
| 10 | ‘ It was a real killer — you lose all your contacts and I knew it would be desperately difficult to come back , ’ he says . |
| 11 | so I had a lot of contacts and I enjoyed it . |
| 12 | ‘ I would n't be involved with so many stations if I thought it might , ’ Luke told her drily . |
| 13 | ‘ I said ten days and I meant it . |
| 14 | They were , of course , all in pale fright colours and I felt it might be difficult to distinguish the identities of the females . |
| 15 | Commonly called yellow fumitory , it comes up like mustard and cress at the foot of every shady wall in the garden and I used to wrench it out with the ruthlessness I used on sycamore seedlings until I discovered it on sale in a nursery for well over £1 a plant . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | After the war opinion was more fluid and open on political grounds the tariff issue had been dead for years and I felt it was one which would pull the party together , including the Lloyd George malcontents . |
| 18 | The other aspect is there are a large number of people a large number of these countries depend on their forest industries for producing foreign exchange which is particularly scant , a lot of the world , particularly Africa is suffering from debt problems , erm I worked in Uganda for 14 years and I found it really to get back there : the salary of a forest officer now is something , is worth in real terms something like 1 percent of what it was in 1962. erm His salary in 1962 was something in the region of six thousand a year in present terms , it 's now worth £60. erm He has to go out and get most of his livelihood from some other source , and Uganda 's an extreme case , but there are many other African countries where the position is similar . |
| 19 | Well it 's years since I thought it had gone bust |
| 20 | ‘ Generally , everything happened about four to six weeks after I wanted it to . ’ |
| 21 | Fortunately , however , a few weeks before I found it I attended a lecture given by a Dr Peter Herring , of an oceanographic research institute based in Godalming , on the subject of marine bioluminescence . |
| 22 | ‘ It was years before I realised it was even common parlance , ’ Kenneth said , still staring out to the loch . |
| 23 | Oh he had that Cavalier for a few years after I sold it . |
| 24 | I know that sounds obvious but even nine years after I designed it , I still have one of the very few adjustable-height lecterns in the UK . |
| 25 | erm About five years after I started it , I think everything was , was growing up , and erm I have n't done the major things recently , I 'm just doing gentle management . |
| 26 | I went in one of them cage things and I got it over — well , you have to push with your legs and you sort of pull with your arms and nobody else could do it . |
| 27 | I was reading the things and I said it was a bigger upstairs is , are bigger than the downstairs . |
| 28 | Back then I think my girlfriends and I took it for granted that washing regularly was an exclusively feminine pursuit . |
| 29 | I learnt not to talk to strangers and I thought it was funny . |
| 30 | one hour , thirty pounds and I took it to them |