Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] it [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I tried to turn it into a joke — not a very good one , I admit — but I said something about that party game called consequences , you know where everyone writes down innocent things that get strung together because nobody knows what the others have written and it gets all mixed up so you get a silly story with a stupid ending . |
| 2 | Oh god I thought I 'd lost it for a minute |
| 3 | You know , cos I 'd got it at a P P C as well , for national conference . |
| 4 | SIR — On coming into £40,000 I decided to put it into a trust for my grandchildren , to be paid out as each reaches the age of 24 years . |
| 5 | I kept examining it in a fond fever ) . |
| 6 | Although it is not a mountain tent I did take it on a high camp with a family group . |
| 7 | Well again , I , I , I had to do it as a kid but I did n't afterwards but er , I er , tell you about this chap and I even went back and told him . |
| 8 | In fact , the next paper I sent him was called , if I remember rightly , ‘ The Poet — the Public — the Faith ’ , and I had dispatched it to a review called The Green Quarterly , the only recollection of which I have is that it was quarterly and that it was green . |
| 9 | I picked the song because I had written it for a special person and it was not a Dr Hook song . |
| 10 | I thought I had seen it in a Met report , some time back . |
| 11 | In the end I had to take it to a skid pan to see how far it would go before it eventually lost its cool The answer was as far as its steering lock would allow . |
| 12 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
| 13 | I had known it for a long time , ever since I had confided to my Mum at age fifteen that I fancied the other girls at school , the ‘ it 's just a phase , ’ syndrome . |
| 14 | I had purchased it in a back street in Alexandria , and had become , in a short time , unreasonably attached to it . |
| 15 | Beth had invoked the help of God or Jesus Christ and I had taken it like a lamb . |