Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [vb past] it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I 'll put a bit I thought it had always been like that .
2 I said it 's no good asking my opinion I said it looks alright to me .
3 For a long while I thought it did n't matter if I lived or died , but you 've changed all that .
4 At the end of the day I thought it looked very attractive , but whether it will catch the eye of a customer when I display it on the craft stall is another matter .
5 In the beginning I did it to look good , cos I wanted the money , towards the end it was doing it to live , it was literally doing it to live .
6 When I saw my picture on the front page of the local newspaper I knew it meant trouble . ’
7 And th there there was a cartoon in the paper in the week I thought it made me smile really .
8 ‘ Although you did n't mention any names last week I knew it had to be me , ’ said Heather .
9 But at times last season I felt it took second place from a few other clubs . ’
10 Rosa scandens , ‘ a wild , woody , climbing rose , with a shining evergreen Myrtle leaf , a white sweet-scented flower and small , round prickly fruit ’ , was , he said , found in woods near Florence by Signor Micheli who sent it to Dr Boerhaave of Leyden , ‘ in whose curious garden I saw it growing in the year 1727 . ’
11 But at the end I thought it got a little bit too silly .
12 In the end I decided it did n't matter much where I went as long as it was up .
13 ‘ That 's about the way I had it figured too .
14 I mean they were pretty shambly when I got to them and I made a supreme effort to get everything going the way I wanted it to go .
15 glowed like the ploughland I saw it swerve towards
16 As Gandhi explains concerning sadāgraha : ‘ I liked the word , but it did not fully represent the whole idea I wished it to connote .
17 Every time I lifted it to aim it at a target living or not — this moment would be at the back of my mind .
18 The first time I saw it loose .
19 I do n't know how much of it I remembered , cos I 've seen it so often now , mm , ca n't remember the first time I saw it Did n't know .
20 This time I made it happen , I think . ’
21 As a matter of fact I heard it stop when it reached the house . ’
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