Example sentences of "i [vb past] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know I chucked it away . |
| 2 | Before I took that stand , I made it plain what I was going to do . |
| 3 | She thought , Now he 'll say what he was going to say last night , except that I made it hard for him , I was so unloving , so unresponsive . |
| 4 | ‘ But I made it absolutely clear how frail you were … that it was imperative that she come here … ’ |
| 5 | I made it absolutely clear that , when we know precisely what happened in that case and can draw the lessons from it , we shall be willing to learn them and take note of the need for future action , if that is shown to be necessary . |
| 6 | But I made it perfectly clear — or at least I thought I did , ’ Blufton added , spreading his palms in a gesture of openness , ‘ that I was n't actually offering her the job . |
| 7 | My Lords , I think I made it perfectly clear what I did mean er I did qualify it by saying that of course there are times when patients do have to wait on trolleys for diagnostic purposes , for observation and for other reasons er but once an admission has been agreed , then that patient should be admitted , that is our policy and that is what we 're working towards . |
| 8 | And Lord Wilson , who was in favour of continued EEC membership , said , ‘ I made it very clear , that as soon as this was all over , we would revert to strict Cabinet rules and collective views and all that kind of thing . ’ |
| 9 | I made it very clear from the start that I was married but having problems . |
| 10 | ‘ I made it then , me old mate . |
| 11 | My Lords , er the principle of co-option has been described as by a number of Your Lordships as an extension of principal of democracy , but I call on my experience not as er of a year as er Minister for the Police under my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw , but my three years as Minister for the Prison Service er and er in that er service , there was erm in each prison a Board of Prison Visitors and I observed during that time that the membership of the prison population was becoming increasingly black , but that the membership of the er Boards of Prison Governors was remaining stubbornly white and I er put it , I made it then that I thought there should be something to redress this balance er the system is as it were a supervised co-option , the local er Board makes a proposal and the Minister approves or does n't , but also I had to refuse five successive of proposed co-options of white members to an all-white prison board for a prison which was predominantly black in population because it was alleged there were no suitable black people available . |
| 12 | ‘ I made it quite plain to him that I could find no-one in mid-Essex who wants this unloved road , ’ said Mr Burns . |
| 13 | I made it quite plain he would go before she did , and I rather think he has accepted the status quo . |
| 14 | ‘ But I made it quite clear that I was n't prepared to share a bedroom with you ! ’ she retorted angrily . |
| 15 | Once we received the decision that went against us , I made it quite clear , at the full city council meeting , that we would seek the views of our legal advisors as to whether or not the decision was flawed . |
| 16 | And I think I made it quite clear that it was not the quality of the Education Authority that was the basis of the Banbury School 's proposals , it was the County Council 's decision to go ahead on a consultation for tertiary education , an entirely different animal in Oxfordshire , and I , like Bob , would agree that the erm quality of education offered in Oxfordshire is first class . |
| 17 | I think I made it once for my parents-in-law . |
| 18 | the one I make , I made it once and you liked it with the almonds on top |
| 19 | with nuts on the top , I made it once |
| 20 | I swooped it so that on each pass it caught the top of the dam wall with one corner , gradually producing a nick in the sand barrier which the water was able to flow through , quickly going on to overwhelm the whole dam and the sand-house village beneath . |
| 21 | Only I realised it too late . ’ |
| 22 | I realised it long ago . |
| 23 | ‘ I fought it so hard … ’ |
| 24 | I posted it here earlier on in the summer . |
| 25 | John and the rest of the room seemed to be miles away — even my own voice , when I produced it finally , sounded as if it were coming down a long-distance telephone . |
| 26 | When I met the Association of British Insurers about six months ago , it was reluctant to take a collective view , but when I met it about two months ago , its views had changed considerably , because the claims paid by insurers rose by 46 per cent . |
| 27 | ( I sold it eventually — for 15 quid . |
| 28 | I sold it once when I was skint for fifty quid , that was before I was married . |
| 29 | Josh and I planned it yesterday evening , did n't we , Josh ? |
| 30 | 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 . |