Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I took myself off to my billet , feeling bloody frustrated and edgy , might I add , and thence to bed , where I thought about it . |
| 2 | ‘ Where I come from it 's tougher country than this . ’ |
| 3 | erm in the days when they had terraced houses back to back terraced houses erm well anywhere in the country I guess but but where I come from it was fine for the people who lived with their doors on the on the road but the people who lived at the other side of the block they could n't get from the road so every so often down the down the terrace they had a little alley way an entry I think you 'd probably call it in Scotland , do n't they ? |
| 4 | ‘ But that 's hardly more than I paid for it ! ’ protested Edward Crumwallis , his voice high with outrage and fear . |
| 5 | ‘ Allowing for inflation , it 's very much less than I paid for it . ’ |
| 6 | Then I 'ad to get a job ; that 's when I saw a notice in a shop window about a Brixton fam'ly wantin' a maid , so I went after it . |
| 7 | But I was bad again , so I came off it . |
| 8 | Their advertising was persuasive and their prices attractive , on the surface , so I fell for it like so many others . |
| 9 | Good intentions , of course , are said to pave the way to hell , but one must , like Edward Teller , be optimistic , so I turned to it ( 9 February ) to watch the rubbing together of two creative intellects , those of John Berger and Susan Sontag who were to discuss/argue/disagree about storytelling . |
| 10 | I needed some comfort after the election result so I turned to it for some like-minded thought . |
| 11 | No one wanted me to do the set , so I paid for it myself . |
| 12 | Only twice has a piece of work been unusable , in which case , he says , ‘ it 's my mistake in choosing an artist who was n't up to the commission , so I pay for it anyway and just do n't use it ’ . |
| 13 | And saying that , in the last three years I since discovered , and it was quite difficult to , which I did find , that there was alternative erm therapists , which was lots of groups that were going on and once I got into it erm the , it opened up a new , you know I ne I 've never saw the light at the tunnel that is shining brightly now ! |
| 14 | Once I get into it though I snake on before anyone else gets on . |
| 15 | I placed it in that part of the room where we need the light , with something which , if I believed in it , I would call instinct . |
| 16 | Well I suppose if I thought about it I could er put Amy in the hall and go and do some . |
| 17 | I would go home for weekends , if I felt like it , and during the holidays . |
| 18 | The hostess rang and asked tactfully and hesitantly if I felt like it . |
| 19 | I do n't go in Budgens all that often , that 's why I do n't spend more if I go in it |
| 20 | However , I realized if I looked at it underwater , it was bigger . |
| 21 | If I jump with surprise when a dog suddenly barks at me , my behaviour is no less expressive than if I shout at it to shut up . |
| 22 | If I die for it , if David must die for it in his turn , no matter , so the spring survive and the unity grow . |
| 23 | After all , something must have made me do it , pointless and unjustified as it seemed now ; perhaps if I went over it all again carefully , I could find out that the truth did n't condemn me out of hand . |
| 24 | if I went into it Bob |
| 25 | During the week he come back asking me if I forget about it and withdraw my notice but stubborn as I was I refused . |
| 26 | I can decide to call myself Mary or Kate or Abigail if I feel like it , I said to myself as I sauntered along ( and up , and down , and round and round ) the sunny streets of Bristol . |
| 27 | And if I feel like it , I wo n't just screw up your life with that stupid , lame bitch , I 'll make her part of the deal . |
| 28 | The lounge has a large bay window with a beautiful view of the village and I can sit there and watch the world go by , if I feel like it . |
| 29 | So if for any reason I feel like adding on some points I will do , and equally I 'll decide to take some points off if I feel like it . |
| 30 | no , I do n't think so , well I think if I feel like it , after I 've done me cooker hood , I might do a bit of baking |