Example sentences of "i [vb past] it [prep] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I got it for my eighteenth you see .
2 " No , I got it by my own self . "
3 I found it in my old snap album .
4 So from there I I mentioned it to our provincial who 's the i the one who 's in charge of us all in this er area .
5 I ordered it at the branch of the Times Library then housed in Elliston and Cavell 's , the nearest equivalent to Harrods in the Oxford of pre-war years , and remember with what excitement I received it from their admirable librarian Miss Lush ( now Lady Ormerod ) at the end of my day 's work in the Bodleian .
6 I claimed it for my own . ’
7 It is the lint and fluff on my old winter coat , stuck to the sleeves like dead bugs , and it is the same old towel hanging from the rack in my bathroom , stiff with decay but still pink , still the shape it was over a year ago , the last time I used it , the last time I shoved it across my stubborn wet flesh and up between my legs and rough through my tangle of sopping hair , the same hair , the same hair .
8 I made on the deal , but when I switched it on my first thought was : uh-oh .
9 I felt it on my own … ’
10 I felt it during my last year at Ladymont .
11 I saw it with my own two eyes .
12 I saw it at its best , in April , when it was well above the third magnitude , and dominated the whole area ; at that stage it was strongly orange-red .
13 No , I trimmed it for her last week
14 No I kept it on its own .
15 I bought it with my conservation hat on , and think it is well worth doing . ’
16 I bought it with my own money . ’
17 I LEARNED it from my elder sister , the Indian scout of my life .
18 Folding the lids of the box together , I hoisted it under my left arm and carried it to the Fire Exit .
19 I did it on my own .
20 ( I got a bent line if I did it on my own , but here was one to follow . )
21 ‘ He had been shown the yellow card and the referee had had a word with him and although he did n't like being substituted , I did it for his own good .
22 er and obviously the bathroom and that I , I did it in me own sort of way
23 If I remember rightly it was called ‘ My Kitchen Window ’ and I liked it for its succinct simplicity and the fact that it rang true .
24 I held it between my own , uncovered it to see the fingers lying on mine : a square hand , fine-boned , fine-textured , not large .
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