Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [vb past] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I set out to write this story I thought that it would primarily show how scientists come up with ideas , design a strategy to test them , carry out the experiments , share experiences and attempt to replicate claimed discoveries , thereby establishing new natural phenomena . |
| 2 | Of course , old Meg is not to be relied upon at all , owing to her unfortunate fondness for the bottle , and when I heard that she was the source of the story I said that it could n't possibly be the case , that she did n't know what she had seen , as usual — ’ |
| 3 | Of course I suspected where it had come from . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought it was a weakness I had but it was n't — it proved to be my strength . |
| 5 | None of his designs that we now possess was built , and my first thought was of regret that this should be so , but on reflection I knew that it was right . |
| 6 | Bible I saw that it only got 68% . |
| 7 | A chicken no a king prawn korma I had and it was lovely . |
| 8 | In a letter to my wife I said that it looked as if my job was to try to give them new faith and hope . |
| 9 | I chose the example I did because it gave an important history of another library , Glasgow , and because it had also belonged at one time to the Guildhall Library , which had passed it on to them . |
| 10 | Now when I read about the island I discovered that it is volcanic and mountainous and is the last refuge of the Carib Indians , the descendants of proud cannibals who starved to death rather than accept the fate of slavery . |
| 11 | ‘ If you do n't ask him with 100 percent commitment and effort he wo n't do it , yet the feeling I got when it suddenly clicked was just amazing ! ’ |
| 12 | That night as I lay in bed I prayed that it was not our name , only one like ours ; I still could n't believe it . |
| 13 | I chose the St Edmund Hall book I did because it was by a contemporary politician , and also because it was representative of one of the largest classes of dispersed books , those used by the immediately preceding generation : that is , those published in the fifties and sixties . |
| 14 | In a previous book I suggested that it might be parasitic , freeloading on the efforts of the 1 per cent , a theory that has more recently been taken up by molecular biologists under the name of ‘ selfish DNA ’ . |
| 15 | I even joined a group for divorced men but in the end I left because it fed my negativity instead of alleviating it . |
| 16 | If that is the report to which he is referring , when asked how I would react to a Select Committee report I said that it would depend on what it said . |
| 17 | Amid a buzz of excitement I heard that it was ‘ one of old Maurice 's hits ’ , and I pushed my way through the crowd just in time to see another ball sail up into the sky towards the Castle . |
| 18 | ‘ We 'd seen so many terrible pictures on TV and when we arrived in the country I wondered if it was all true . |
| 19 | Oh I looked up about the last , the last essay I did cos it was about erm |
| 20 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
| 21 | As the needle got closer to my arm I remembered that it never used to hurt as long as I gripped really tightly the nice bit of perspex they lend you . |
| 22 | Fastening my watch round my wrist I saw that it was after seven and I could hear the farm men clattering in the yard outside as they began their morning tasks . |