Example sentences of "i [verb] it [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 It was later that evening that he took a white muslin dress out of the bag with which he had returned from Paris and asked me to wear it as a nightdress .
2 The assistant changed the battery and told me to monitor it for a week for any problems .
3 Not every day , nor as often as I would wish , but I took my middle daughter to see it yesterday and we hugged it together , and two days before that I hugged it with a friend .
4 I made it for a dancer ( Nijinsky ) who can soar like a spirit , but who has the strength to dance with the Wilis [ as in Giselle ] and live to dance again . ’
5 It was only a few square feet in size and I made it into a carpet of flowers .
6 And then in the , where the bath used to be , in this little bathroom I had the cooker and the washer that 's it , I made it into a little kitchen so
7 I made it from a pattern
8 I regret it in a way , ’ he says thoughtfully .
9 so he goes , no he goes I , I mean it as a slovenly woman , like you 're
10 I commandeered it without a second thought . ’
11 And I fought it for a long time and I wanted to get kick-started back to where I was before , because I felt under a cloud .
12 It really should n't work , but the wretched book is so irresistible that I devoured it in a day , fighting off friends and strangers who fell on it like vultures on a carcass the moment it was cast aside with a happy sigh . ’
13 That hat has been to Buckingham Palace twice because I lent it to a friend who was invited to a later garden party .
14 I shared it with a coloured girl who I got on with and we had a good laugh .
15 ‘ Then I sold it for a Telecaster , which I hated , because the Tele did n't have any knobs ; it was a real simple guitar and I did n't like it , so I bought a Les Paul and I loved it .
16 I sold it for a reasonable price .
17 I sold it to a tinker .
18 I make , cos I make it in a microwave
19 Then I rode it in a in an old Burberry and I do n't how I started it , I think it was kick start .
20 " I could n't possibly afford the flat if I were renting it now , but I got it on a long lease just after the war , when rents were much less than they are today , " she said .
21 I got it with a , because Hughie sold the
22 ‘ I did n't know at the time it had been in the Quakers boardroom but it was a good , handmade , solid oak table and I got it for a reasonable price , ’ he said .
23 I got it from a guy called Reuben , he was living in Wales and my sister Louise bought me a Joe Johnson with Rip trucks from him for £60 .
24 I got it from a novel I read at school , ’ she said , looking down and shuffling her feet .
25 look I said I do n't mind vinyl , I do n't mind good vinyl the only good , the only one that , it was good for the toilet , but I got it in a pack cos we 've got such a small single toilet
26 I got it in a pack outside Fads
27 I think I got it in a shop on the where did I get it ?
28 ‘ But when I tried it as a young kid I could n't even hit the pitch for several years .
29 I bumped it against a door-frame when the earthquake started this morning and I lost my balance . ’
30 Would you believe I found it on a stall in the flea market only last week ? ’
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