Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb past] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My flower — the one that I remember best out of many — was gathered where I said it had been . |
| 2 | Although I knew it moved rapidly , all I had of it in my memory was a series of still pictures , captured in rain by lightning . |
| 3 | The thought of describing it out loud to over a hundred people made it feel less convincing than I thought it had been . |
| 4 | It it goes further south than I thought it did . |
| 5 | I had no intention of taking the Transit up West — I 'd had enough trouble round the launderette , which doubles as a common room for the junior branch of the Hackney National Front — so I left it parked outside the front door in exactly the spot where Frank and Salome usually plug in the nightlight for their VW Golf . |
| 6 | Animals rarely surprise me but there was something about the buck , once I noticed it sitting there , that froze me for a second . |
| 7 | If I got it lying , where , if I 've got it in the bank and it 's there ready it 's , there 's nay problem is there ? |
| 8 | I I have a I have a nasty suspicion that we could go on all day like this if if I allowed it to happen . |
| 9 | And that I ca n't I wo n't go on my if I did it going off it would go over there . |
| 10 | Cos I thought it 'd been a nice day we could of nipped down to Sainsbury 's |
| 11 | I crossed it out because I thought it was gon na say cos I thought it said , survey managers are instructed to work at all times |
| 12 | Cos I heard it takes as long . |
| 13 | cos I had it running in the kitchen while we were cooking tea last night and Sue came in and goes a real big fart , and goes oh I have n't been able to fart all week , she says ! |
| 14 | yeah because I saw it advertised in Woolworth 's yesterday I did |
| 15 | She could barely breathe , her heart pounding so hard that she had to shout shakily , ‘ Because I knew it meant you could n't have married me for my father 's company , and I wanted to find out why you 'd lied about it . ’ |
| 16 | Though I had always disliked Christmas , because I knew it made my mother unhappy for some reason , that was one Christmas when I was happy , and I have never forgotten it . |
| 17 | I avoided the chocolate cake because I thought it looked a little sickly . |
| 18 | I know that sounds quite sad and it 's embarrassing that I copied him , but I ca n't help it because I thought it looked so great on him . |
| 19 | I , i it used to be something I put up with when I was younger , now , if my parents come to visit I ask them to smoke in the corridor , go out of the door , open a window , something , because I found it affects me so badly ! |
| 20 | It looks like 16mm film because it 's Kodak Gold and that 's because I wanted it to look like good-quality home snaps as opposed to a kind of beautiful , arty shot . |
| 21 | Our new kitchen is not ultra-modern because I wanted it to have an old look and homely feel . |
| 22 | It does n't seem two minutes since I saw it last oh big fat tummy , big fat tummy or what ? |
| 23 | Well it 's years since I thought it had gone bust |
| 24 | no it gets to shoulder , it gets to shoulder length well remember mine did , mine before I had it cut |
| 25 | ‘ At first I could not believe it , but when I saw it hanging on the wall of this house , I was flabbergasted , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Mind you it does look better than when I saw it last . |
| 27 | well that 's I thought when I saw it coming out I thought oh goodness this is gon na be ten P a week , that 's the same for everybody , very good |
| 28 | I remember the shock-horror and accusations of non-femininity that my first one provoked when I wore it to push the pram up Edinburgh 's steep streets in 1967 . |
| 29 | Now I protested that it was n't properly decorated yet and that I 'd rather he came when I had it looking its best . |
| 30 | Yeah my hair was that long when I had it cut . |