Example sentences of "[coord] i [vb past] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | and I had it sharpened by Hector |
| 4 | He brushed the question aside and I realised it had been silly of me to ask it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I was apprenticed at Swindon in the steam age and I thought it had passed . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The memory of my encounter with Jeanne Kennedy and how I 'd run away remained and I thought it stayed with me from shame . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ You 've probably ruined that dress , ’ said Lili , and I said it did n't matter . |
| 13 | ‘ Initially we were running with two large water pumps and I felt it did n't require full flow from both of them . |
| 14 | 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 ! |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | My hair had more shine than before and I found it left a stronger smell than other conditioners which I really liked . |
| 18 | It 's a memory-hungry process and I found it worked best on machines with more than 4Mb of RAM . |
| 19 | It was so wonderful and I wanted it to go on forever . |
| 20 | Sounded rather forward-thinking for a major record company and I wanted it confirmed … |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , sir , I am sorry but I saw it lying there and the temptation was too much for me . ’ |
| 22 | As a scientist I can not believe it — but I saw it happen with my own eyes . |
| 23 | I kept my hand pressed to the bottom of the boat , my fingers freezing in the icy water swilling round us , but I noticed it grew no deeper . |
| 24 | Thessy asked me what McIllvanney had wanted , but I said it had been nothing very much for I was too disgusted with the man to tell Thessy the truth . |
| 25 | But I kept it zipped . |
| 26 | You told me to throw it away before but I kept it to put that other mug in it . |
| 27 | I tried to smile at him through my tears , but I realized it had n't turned out very well , so I squeezed his hand which I was holding . |
| 28 | It may have started a bit playfully but I thought it got out of hand . |
| 29 | It got me out of clearing tables for a living , but I thought it meant more than that . |
| 30 | The one at the top is the basic tree , the one on the left is one of " my " insects , and the one on the right has no name but I thought it looked pretty . |