Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I waited to see her face tense as if it was an airtight balloon on a stick ; never mind that it made me choke somewhere in my chest . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ When we play like that it makes me wonder why we are in the wrong half of the table . |
| 3 | I just change the format a little bit here and there so it makes me write differently . |
| 4 | But I called her my girlfriend , and it made me feel pretty good . |
| 5 | You needed me and it made me feel so good ! |
| 6 | So we had a video , and a special celebration dinner , and it made me feel really great . |
| 7 | There was a faint perfume , too , clinging to the photo , and it made me feel very homesick . |
| 8 | Yeah it says , I read the thing and it says I have n't got ta let them in unless they 've got a warrant so the first time they come they would n't have a warrant , surely , so they 're gon na have to go away and get a warrant and in that time then I 'd have to get a licence would n't I ? |
| 9 | Cos Irene says give me a ring I says no , I says that 's it , I said I 've already made the arrangement once and it backfired I says so I 'm not doing it no more . |
| 10 | I opened it , and I got my answer , and it set me thinking afresh and seeing clearly where I had formerly been blind . |
| 11 | I can do all those nice things in Jan , Feb and March , and not to mention when I get home tearing my garden to pieces , that 's gone to pot , which is as well , because it does n't make it , see , see one thing I find about coming down here , I see the really smarter shops than I would unless I were in Norwich and it makes me realise still after this , I do n't crave for the things in shops . |
| 12 | I should n't have asked that , Florence Ames thought , he does n't care to be questioned about his mother and it makes me seem too familiar , too prying . |
| 13 | But now that items are no longer individually labelled we , the public , have to go by the shelf price , and it makes me wonder how many other prices are incorrectly displayed . |
| 14 | If it did I do n't remember it . |
| 15 | But it enabled me to see how tough a negotiator Eliot himself could be . |
| 16 | ‘ Trying on all those clothes was fun but it made me realise how tiring shopping for clothes really is . |
| 17 | Barbara says although she had a fantastic day , she will probably stick to making her own clothes in future : ‘ Trying on all those clothes was fun but it made me realise how tiring modelling — and shopping — really are . |
| 18 | I told everyone I was going for a merit , but it made me feel really good when I got it ! |
| 19 | The extra weight and clothing was to help me get used to the combined effect of heat and exertion , but it made me look twice the man I was ! |
| 20 | It was only the feeling of a moment , but it caused me to slow down . |
| 21 | But it appeared I did not know how lucky . |
| 22 | I ENJOYED it most because it made me laugh so much . |
| 23 | To me , in a book containing so many emotions , I find dialogue really important because it lets me know exactly how the character is feeling rather than leaving me to make my own assumptions which are often wrong . |
| 24 | I find this mode of evaluation very important because it allows me to see how the child is thinking , and to what extent they are thinking about problems they are being presented with , whether it 's shallowly , or whether they are actually going into it in some depth . |
| 25 | Since it helped me jump even higher , I took to pole-vaulting right away . ’ |
| 26 | and that then I thought , and then when it finished I did n't realize it was two parts , you see , and I thought well that 's a funny way |
| 27 | When it came I tried frantically to remember all that had been forced into me by my mentor , and to the utter amazement of all — around but mainly myself — I passed into the 17th Entry at Halton in January 1928 with , I believe , 305 out of a total of just under 400 starters . |
| 28 | For as long as it took me to get out of range , several birds used me for bombing practice , coming so close on occasions that ducking was a necessity rather than a flamboyant gesture . |
| 29 | The other possible way of answering your question is to think in terms of having a large project in which you would write a whole series of poems that would add up into a book , which as it happens I have just done , since I have just published a book of poems which are all retellings of bible stories , and there the subjects quite clearly came from the outside , though I mean unless they latch onto something inside you they wo n't make poems . |
| 30 | As it happened I did n't like ice in whisky and this pleased Alec . |