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

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1 I made it from old aluminium tent-poles , some of which I had found in the attic a long time previously and some I had got from the town dump .
2 I , I found it with utmost ease .
3 I used it for New Blues and almost all of Summer Song and perhaps the solo on Rubina 's Blue Sky Happiness .
4 The journey to Liverpool Street station was just a trundle around the Northern Line from Camden to Moorgate and then a short walk , and I accomplished it in good time .
5 This time I studied it in good sunlight , because some of the colours are so dim or so dark that one can hardly see what the pattern is all about .
6 I soaked it in hot water and antiseptic and I drank a little more whisky .
7 A cream-coloured dress of mine got covered with rust and , although I soaked it in biological liquid , it did n't get rid of the stain .
8 I was shaking by the time I got the thing to the Bunker , nearly frightening myself to death with my paranoid imaginings , but I prevailed ; I took the filthy skull there and I cleaned it and stuck a candle in it and I surrounded it with heavy magic , important things , and got back cold and wet to my warm little bed safely .
9 I associated it with bald , saffron-robed monks sitting cross-legged , mesmerized by yak candles , stretching their legs only to beat dreary gongs .
10 I took it on full time , ’ she said .
11 I took it by popular demand , ’ said Kelly .
12 So I knitted it in double jacquard .
13 I decided that what I did it for small reasons
14 I of course has to invent this ceremony and I did it in Latin as they do at Oxford
15 I had it on automatic
16 and I had it on right and he came in right , and I was going , he was going , a long conversation all about little Harmony and everything and really going onto it , and I went to play it back and it had n't recorded anything .
17 I had it in big letters — ‘ Father ’ Arrien ( the father in inverted commas ! ) will preach on the blasphemy of the Roman Mass on such and such an evening — and the priest of the town , he went up to the council and objected to this and said that Wylie 's a trouble maker .
18 I wrote it on orange paper in blue ink and it all went horribly wrong when I photocopied it so I 've put an agenda on there right .
19 I wanted it to forward wind , I think I pressed the wrong button .
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