Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing wrong with it , but at first I thought it was nondescript , and then I thought it felt weird . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought it sounded odd at the time ; now I know why . ’ |
| 3 | I thought it looked lovely . |
| 4 | I thought it looked lovely and clean . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I thought it looked wonderful ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I said it looks nice as it is and I do n't know if he will or not , I forgot to ask him on the phone . |
| 10 | I said it 's no good asking my opinion I said it looks alright to me . |
| 11 | Alice 's hand shrank a little , but she made it lie steady . |
| 12 | You made it go wonky and it did n't then ! |
| 13 | ‘ You made it sound important , and I 've been racking my brains ever since . ’ |
| 14 | Then she let it fall open , and began to read immediately , as if she had known it , ‘ 'Why , [ Mrs Ramsay ] asked , pressing her chin on James ’ head , should they grow up so fast ? |
| 15 | " When I sent photographs to my sister in Canada , she thought it looked beautiful . " |
| 16 | It was not that she was parsimonious or disapproving of alcohol , simply that she knew it had adverse side-effects on Liza and , not being much of a drinker herself , she only kept a small supply in the house . |
| 17 | It was the truth , but she knew it sounded evasive and that evasiveness was not a quality that would appeal much to Guido . |
| 18 | She knew it sounded unconvincing and she could read the continued disbelief in his eyes even as she spoke , but it was n't right , the way he was managing to give a nasty twist to everything she said . |
| 19 | Hari half lifted half pushed him through the window and then she waited breathlessly for any sounds that would indicate that Will had been discovered , but when there was nothing , she moved to the door and to her relief , she saw it swing open . |
| 20 | ‘ You thought it looked odd ? ’ he said . |
| 21 | But a few years ago , when they promised us the summer heat would last for months , she had it cut short . |
| 22 | She had it done cheap , promising to wear it in all the right places . |
| 23 | On her way back up the stairs she struck it to make sure it had petrol . |
| 24 | You said it got old . ’ |
| 25 | She intended it to lie flat and silent . |
| 26 | ‘ We wanted it to look comfortable , ’ Patsy says . |
| 27 | Yesterday they chalked up their third win of the season … they made it look easy , the score thirty points to two … already the Oxfordshire American footballers are on target for making the National League playoffs . |
| 28 | Whenever the film crew opened a cupboard in a shop to store some electrical equipment , they found it stocked high with food . |
| 29 | The patients were asked how easy they found it to maintain good control . |
| 30 | He had the expatriate knack of being lent things and getting himself looked after on his return to the native land , and as they talked it became apparent that we were to be entertained to lunch by the gallery owner . |