Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] it in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It takes , they say , seven years to make an electrician ; and I did it in a fortnight . ’ |
| 3 | We dined on spicy fish which repeated on me for most of the evening in the Jac , meeting pals , until I drowned it in an ocean of beer . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | ‘ It would have taken forty-five minutes by bus , but I did it in a quarter of an hour by bike , ’ he said . |
| 6 | I write in the past tense because I lost it in an arctic spell of weather and for some inexplicable reason have yet to replace it . |