Example sentences of "i [verb] it [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember that she asked me to guess what was inside a sort of pasty served to her on Thásos , and that I got it right at the first guess : macaroni . |
| 2 | In my diary I recognised it almost from the beginning , probably because I made no connection between it and non-eating , but seemed to have ascribed it to being overworked academically or being hounded into sporting activities which I resented for their profound pointlessness . |
| 3 | Erm , does any member of the Council wish to make any comment on this resolution before I put it formally to the vote ? |
| 4 | The glue covers the books , the pens , everything and I spread it generously around the fastening before I close it up . |
| 5 | I drove it straight round the corner and installed it in a costly carpark on Lexington and Forty-Third . |
| 6 | No it 's by , I noticed it particularly by the tray . |
| 7 | I dropped it somewhere near the door . |
| 8 | One father who lives in Harley Grove , Darlington , said : ‘ I threw it straight in the bin . |
| 9 | I read it doggedly in the hope that it would be some kind of follow-up . |
| 10 | I read it occasionally at the club , mainly for the literary reviews . |
| 11 | I hear it clearly on the radio , and I stay leaning forward , close to the receiver , my weight moving to the balls of my feet . |
| 12 | I set it carefully on the edition of Sophocles by her bed , intending to retrieve it later . |
| 13 | I discovered it today in the pocket of a jacket I had n't worn since then . |
| 14 | ( I remember it well for the sun shortly afterwards disappeared and we did not see it for weeks . ) |
| 15 | I loved it right from the off . ’ |
| 16 | I hit it all over the place . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , one further question , Lady Isabella , and I ask it here in the presence of your household . |
| 18 | Well I doubt it actually at the moment . |
| 19 | I use it here in the formal sense of one play by each side ) . |
| 20 | While I do use my vehicle off road , I use it more on the road , what is the best type and size for general use . |
| 21 | Erm and that you know I wrote to , I , I discussed that with Alan as a problem but then I took it away with the pro forma that says and you , now the target pro forma 's got columns you 've got to fill in and I |
| 22 | ‘ I took it seriously in the middle of the night . |
| 23 | I took it personally in the end , very personally . |
| 24 | I gave it away to the wrong person . |
| 25 | Then I do it again in the afternoon . |
| 26 | I supported it partly on the recommendation of the warden of the teachers ' centre and partly because I felt that they needed something positive because of the merger . |
| 27 | I said it afterwards to the clergyman . |
| 28 | Taking hold of her costume , I tugged it farther over the firm buttocks . |
| 29 | To stop its silent nagging I pushed it away in the bottom drawer of my desk ; went to bed , thought about Bourani , drifted into various romantic-sexual fantasies with that enigmatic figure ; and failed entirely , in spite of my tiredness , to go to sleep . |
| 30 | As Lyons ( 1982 ) notes , the word subjectivity in English has some pejorative connotations ; but I see it simply as the way in which language makes provision for the expression of attitude and belief . |