Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] it a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At first I tried to keep it a secret from my wife and three children , ’ says Chris . |
| 2 | And I think even while we 'd been in Opposition , remember no one knew whether we were going to win or not , it surprised many people when we did , there had been some sort of discreet across-the-fence interest at the professional Civil Service level in some of the concepts that we were developing and I 'd made it a point of writing the occasional pamphlet as our thinking went along to send out smoke signals to everyone including the civil servants as to what we were about . |
| 3 | So I decided to give it a miss that day . |
| 4 | ‘ It was then that I decided to give it a try . |
| 5 | I kept just killing time until it had gone eleven o'clock and all the cinema-goers had gone in for the late shows , at which point I decided to call it a day . |
| 6 | Because I started doing it a long time ago |
| 7 | I could n't fault the descriptions , although I did find it a little irritating to be several paragraphs into each section before the actual route of ascent was revealed . |
| 8 | Erm , having been told that the County Council were running the meeting , I did find it a little difficult to chair , but I do think that we 've come out of it with some constructive ideas . |
| 9 | In return , I described my discovery of Weimar 's system for naming streets when I had visited it a few years earlier . |
| 10 | By the time I had heard it a fifth time , one of football 's most respected managers stood accused of everything from gross indecency to impotence . |
| 11 | I had called it a ‘ wee bridal veil ’ — obviously foxed by the scale . |
| 12 | I had to repeat it a number of times so that there could be no misunderstanding . |
| 13 | I had thought it a measure of their love and generosity that the nuns would make the suppliants laugh . |
| 14 | Even as a wee boy I had considered it an unfair exchange . |
| 15 | Choosing what to include took some time , though I wanted to give it an artistic flavour . ’ |