Example sentences of "it and [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The accelerator cable broke in the middle of nowhere so we had to tie some string to it and while I drove , my girlfriend pulled on the string . |
| 2 | The accelerator cable broke in the middle of nowhere so we had to tie some string to it and while I drove , my girlfriend pulled on the string . |
| 3 | When we found it and after I had thanked every sea god for my luck and promised never to make the same stupid mistake again , I gingerly inspected the Seayak for damage . |
| 4 | I have just bought a Wood catfish , but I can not find any information on it and since I introduced it to my tank , I 've never seen it . |
| 5 | But she was offered it and like I said she . |
| 6 | As I blundered on in my explanation I realised he had forgotten all about it and if I had kept my mouth shut the problem need never have arisen . |
| 7 | Money and effort that should have been devoted to supporting the ordinary people in Highfields has been wasted on power politics and I agree that it 's time surely to put an end to that disgrace now there is a certain logic in Mr amendment , it basically says let us put the implementation of council policy in the hands of the director of education , let him take executive control and let us take politics out of it and if I thought that that would do what both Mr and myself want to happen I would support . |
| 8 | ‘ League is a fabulous game but I 've never liked it and if I knew what I know now , I would never have left Pontypool . |
| 9 | He neither filling another form , I says well I 'll fill it in tonight for him he 'll sign it and if I post it tonight you 'll probably get it tomorrow . |
| 10 | ‘ If I give you bread and cheese you do n't like it and if I give you too much soup that 's not right . |
| 11 | I know what you girls are like , you say you 'll just have it short to see what it looks like , and then you say Pedro at the salon wo n't let you grow it just for the moment , and then you say you 've got to look your best for some wedding or other and you ca n't go with it straggly and then you end up not growing it again and if I do n't mention it every week you think I 've learned to like it and if I do mention it every week you think I 'm nagging so I do n't mention it and I 'm stuck with it . |
| 12 | I mean it 's , yes it 's difficult , but yes I 've got to do it and if I do n't do it this , you 'll have to do it |
| 13 | You have had a long life of service and time to look back on it and if I did not know how your arthritis troubles you and with what difficulty you pen your kind notes I would ask you to help me in this . |
| 14 | to you on the phone that I had not seen the job and that I said yes alright knowing I had n't seen the job , also that you knew that I had n't seen it and if I did n't agree with it , then I was gon na change it , and I 've changed it ! |
| 15 | It were n't er just all you know , there was a certain amount of er thought attached to it and as I say , the people was er accepted by the gaffers and er respected , you know what I mean . |
| 16 | But er we enjoyed it and as i say it was just like a family . |
| 17 | My mother also had it and when I had previously attempted to diet and had successfully lost weight there was little improvement , if any , to the appearance of my ugly dimpled thighs , that is until I went on my low fat diet . |
| 18 | He seemed bright enough and very eager to learn , but when I went to the school to see his work I found that his handwriting was very , very bad and his spelling was absolutely atrocious , and although he was good at mathematics , as time went on he began to get very worried and very upset about it and when I looked at his work I realized that he was doing a lot of the words back to front and was getting the direction of figures mixed up . |
| 19 | You walk up towards it and when I see you |
| 20 | However I forgot to mention it and when I remembered again I thought the tickets had probably all been sold . |
| 21 | I could do but it 's er I did n't want to I 'm choosing when I wear it and when I do n't . |