Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | point of order , the point that I made make it on this side is that we are not against the expenditure . |
| 2 | I tried reversing it to five-one-five . |
| 3 | and it was on full power and I tried to save it after this thing came off . |
| 4 | I hit one six and then instead of just trying to hit a single from the next I tried to hit it for four and was out . |
| 5 | I 'd done it for four years on the trot . |
| 6 | As I put on a plaster in here an hour ago , I wondered if I 'd left it on that shelf above the sink . |
| 7 | Well yeah but , cos I mean I 'd left it on all night before . |
| 8 | Whatever it was , he 'd served me with his final invoice and I 'd paid it in full . |
| 9 | I came into a bit of money when my grandmother died and I decided to put it to good use . ’ |
| 10 | Like many people , however , I decided to leave it for another day . |
| 11 | I did show it to one of the department and he read it through … |
| 12 | ‘ And Miguel , now that I look back on your little masquerade , you know I think I did enjoy it after all ! ’ |
| 13 | like that , no one knew , I was driving the car and I recorded everything that was in the car all night no one knew until the end of the night , I got the tape home , I go this is gon na be interesting I had to do it on one of my tapes though |
| 14 | I was to do the counting — up to a hundred ( I could n't count up to a hundred , I had to do it in tens ) and when I opened my eyes he 'd have disappeared . |
| 15 | aha , well I 'm , I 'm doing er couple of Oxos and I had to thicken it with some self raising flour , it was alright |
| 16 | Was I sure I had seen it at all ? |
| 17 | But I was sure I had seen it after that , slinking , a shadow cat in the tree shadows , black as Egypt 's night . |
| 18 | I did n't know exactly where Leicester Square was , but 1 did know it was n't far from Piccadilly , I had seen it in one of those tourist maps I had in my hand a short while ago , did n't know where it went , probably left it in the cinema showing the explicit sex film which was n't . |
| 19 | It would perhaps have been entirely adequate if I had received it in any normal circumstances . |
| 20 | I had to use it for one of Andy |
| 21 | I had expected it at some point . |
| 22 | Which was good for me ; if I had directed it in 1979 it would n't have had a chance . ’ |
| 23 | I knew I had to bring it to some kind of confession , but saying , ‘ I love you , ’ to a woman who loved another man ? |
| 24 | I 'd gotten myself a Herald Tribune and I sat reading it on one of the red seats there . ’ |
| 25 | I intended to sub-contract it to one of my former students , a very , very skilful young man who had been with us on a fee-paying course for one year and then gone off and worked in a local workshop for another 18 months . |