Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While I was testing the Seayak on the west coast of Ireland I failed to pull it far enough up the beach on the night of a rising spring tide . |
| 2 | I planned to do it alone in the first place . ’ |
| 3 | I got to know it pretty well when I was living in Sheffield and I 'd recommend anyone to take a walking holiday there . |
| 4 | I tried to do it really well because it was my last grade . |
| 5 | Three months ago I purchased a Waterlife Nitrate Test kit from my local water garden centre and when I tried to use it consistently got a zero reading . |
| 6 | A skylight above the street door was closed and out of reach , but I tried to reach it anyway and was surprised when my fingers touched the ledge . |
| 7 | ‘ Yeah , well , I tried to rip it apart earlier and did n't get very |
| 8 | If I tried to give it more than one one word at a time it falls over and core dumps . |
| 9 | My left arm was dripping with blood , and when I tried to raise it only the top part moved , the rest hung limply by my side . |
| 10 | I tried to shudder it away . |
| 11 | I belonged to them in the sense that when I was interested in something I tried to understand it as far as possible and , of course , even tried to make use of it . |
| 12 | Because I 'd k I 'd kept it like as evidence |
| 13 | B , retired persons that was the right answer , right , B , retired persons was the right answer , now some of you put D , anyone not gainfully employed and I did think I 'd explained it clearly |
| 14 | I 'd denied it all when Doreen confronted me , but she must have confided her suspicions to the word-processor and left the floppy disc on her bedside table . |
| 15 | I was glad I 'd said it so I just kept my head down and played on . |
| 16 | But I realized I 'd said it so I tried to dig myself out the hole |
| 17 | The first few hundred hours of thought made me regret my bet ; but the second couple of thousand convinced me that I 'd played it right . |
| 18 | I 'd heard it before , remember . |
| 19 | I 'd had a feeling I 'd seen it before , but I 'd no idea they were that good friends ! |
| 20 | I 'd seen it before but could n't remember it you know . |
| 21 | She said : ‘ I brushed past a girl as I went to the toilet and she yelled I 'd done it deliberately . |
| 22 | I th there was , there was one big point that I actually missed out as well that neither of you have picked up on and that was that Maggie actually said that they were having problems with John in school and I should 've come back and , and said well she di she actually said that she was having problems with John , full stop , and I should 've actually come back and , and clarified whether it was at school or not and hence led to the private education and I missed that one completely and realized that I 'd done it afterwards but none of you picked up on that one . |
| 23 | ‘ If I 'd done it then , perhaps I would n't have been fit to go to the Olympics and worlds , and I 'd hate to be sitting here now thinking I could have won . |
| 24 | I grabbed my leather jacket from the chair where it seemed to crawl to no matter where I 'd hung it earlier and found the keys to Armstrong in one pocket and a screwed-up five-pound note in the other . |
| 25 | ‘ I wish I 'd understood it more at the time . ’ |
| 26 | I saw now what I 'd known all the time , only I 'd hidden it craftily from myself because it did n't fit in with what I wanted to do , that Terry and I had no basis for a love-affair ; we were friends who happened to be attracted to each other physically , which was far from enough , and by thinking it was enough we 'd gone against the very nature of our relationship . |
| 27 | I 'd tried it once or twice before , a coupla times when I was younger , but I was n't over keen on it because of the , y'know , just 'cos of the name it 'd got really , y'know , having to inject it and that . |
| 28 | Cos it was the only , it was either here or the Balloon Woods , cos I was er I was given an emergency placing , it was either here or Balloon Woods , and at the time I did n't fancy Balloon Woods , but I wish I 'd taken it now , I 'd be , I 'd have my own place by |
| 29 | If I 'd left it longer I might never have gone . ’ |
| 30 | I 'd left it behind , you see , at the bus-stop — my cobweb brush . |