Example sentences of "it [vb past] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly , it was quite a strenuous walk — though I can say it failed to cause me any real difficulty — the path rising in zigzags up the hillside for a hundred yards or so . |
| 2 | It failed to strike me immediately , and I questioned the judges ' decision — replacing it with one of the entries to the three veneers class . |
| 3 | Coupled to an external VHF aerial the 5.0W setting is capable of giving a useful range equal to that of many panel-mounted sets , but on test in the cockpit it failed to offer me much real advantage over the lower-powered units when all were used with the standard screw-on flexible antennas as supplied . |
| 4 | ‘ Once I 'd learned to fight , it stopped bothering me . |
| 5 | It seemed to suit me and I seemed to suit it and I felt comfortable . |
| 6 | At the same time I felt a terrible heat ; it seemed to consume me , growing hotter and hotter . |
| 7 | But that oil , it seemed to help me a lot . |
| 8 | But that oil , it seemed to help me a lot . |
| 9 | ‘ My last defeat was in New York against Glenwood Brown in 1989 but , instead of putting me off going to a guy 's home town , it seemed to encourage me , ’ said Boucher . |
| 10 | It began to annoy me . |
| 11 | ‘ It began to irritate me , as well as being very demoralising . ’ |
| 12 | The feeling sent the adrenalin rushing around so fast that it threatened to wear me out before I got to my destination . |
| 13 | It started to suck me up the face . |
| 14 | But it started to make me feel scared that it was something I was going to have to bring up for the rest of my life . |
| 15 | I have just wiped out a whole line by carelessly resting my finger on a key , and earlier it kept telling me ‘ mistake ’ — not , of course , helpfully saying what the mistake was . |
| 16 | No wonder it kept deserting me ! |
| 17 | ‘ It did shake me up , but I 'm over it now . ’ |
| 18 | No doubt his pack of men would have returned later to retrieve it , but it did strike me as a rather unsatisfactory way to spend a day in the hills . |
| 19 | Even so , it did strike me as peculiar that someone who lived by French literature should be so calamitously inadequate at making the basic words of the language sound as they did when her subjects , her heroes ( her paymasters , too , you could say ) first pronounced them . |
| 20 | Erm I I 'm speaking from recollection sir at having looked into this in the context of planning appeal which is now a little while ago , but it did strike me at the time that er there was a definite feeling that the agricultural issue was very strong protection of ag agricultural land throughout was a strong issue up to er the mid nineteen eighties and certainly was up to the time in late seventy nine early nineteen eighty and er therefore there was a feeling that Policy E three simply er was supplementary to those other policies . |
| 21 | wardens and whatever , we do n't take the double yellow lines half seriously enough , erm and I think parking generally is , is something we 're very bad at and I 'm an occasional sinner in this respect too , but it , it did strike me the other day , erm paying a fifteen pound fine for parking on a single yellow line on a Sunday afternoon but I had n't noticed a sign that said I should n't , erm paying that fifteen pound fine in other words not having paid the six pound instant fine , I remember thinking that , really there 's , there was no way of talking back , and I had in fact attempted an explanation as to why I 'd done it , and explained the reasons why I thought this really was very overlookable on the side of the law , erm I do n't suppose they paid much attention to it , I do n't imagine giving it a moment 's thought at all . |
| 22 | Blast , I 'd forgotten all about that little oddity , although it did give me pause at the time . |
| 23 | I listened with astonishment to the view that I might consider loving my cancer , for it did remind me that all was not well with myself , and not just physically . |
| 24 | If A Hard Heart is unintentionally comic , though , it did remind me of other people 's genuinely amusing lines . |
| 25 | And if we 've got the project quality plan right there should n't be any problems or queries and it did remind me of this Australian er project manager , who I 've mentioned to one or two other people over lunch , who used to sit in a great , a great office , running multimillion pounds ' project and when people came in to complain to him , he used to refer them to the plaque on the wall which said R T F C. |
| 26 | So I explained to them , I said well that 's cos you changed over and I sort of never put it across through oh she said well do n't worry I 've done it now , she said you have n't got anything to worry about now , I said well it did bother me a bit to think that I did n't think you had my payment ! |
| 27 | But it would be nice to be told that he was all the same , even if it did make me feel a bit sad . ’ |
| 28 | And I I er anyway it did make me ill , its it made me bleed . |
| 29 | I mean , it did make me realize that for large parts of a drama lesson when the kids were supposed to be working on their own they were n't probably doing an awful lot . |
| 30 | I yes , I mean it did make I did actually see a press release erm |