Example sentences of "i [vb past] it [adv] [prep] [art] " 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 | Ouch , I thought , that really hurt , and I clenched it tight for a moment to stop the pain , before looking to see the damage . |
| 3 | I drew it downwards with a clean cut . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 discovered it today in the pocket of a jacket I had n't worn since then . |
| 10 | I loved it right from the off . ’ |
| 11 | I hit it all over the place . |
| 12 | ( There had always been a certain lifelessness about Jane — I felt it even as a child . |
| 13 | My gorgeous glossy dark locks used to be Mummy 's Delight when I was little , but now it was just wavy like the sea at Brighton and I wore it long with a flyaway fringe — well , it was flyaway if I could stick it solidly enough with gel or spray . |
| 14 | I thought , ‘ If I 'm going to sing this album , I 'm going to have to work at it , ’ and I treated it rather like a weight-training program — I went in there , sung my guts out and tried to reach further every day . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | ‘ I took it seriously in the middle of the night . |
| 17 | I took it personally in the end , very personally . |
| 18 | I gave it away to the wrong person . |
| 19 | ‘ I bought it just for a laugh . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I did it once with a Kraut I met on Piccadilly Underground . |
| 22 | I said it more as a joke , but he took it seriously . |
| 23 | I said it afterwards to the clergyman . |
| 24 | As I unravelled the yarn , I wound it loosely around a single bed headboard , knitting the ends together as I went along . |
| 25 | Taking hold of her costume , I tugged it farther over the firm buttocks . |
| 26 | 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 . |