Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh adv] i [vb past] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I returned the book to the place on the shelf where I had found it and walked quietly out of the room . |
| 2 | I stood in the slanting sunlight , warm and yellow around me , the stench of burning flesh and grass on the wind , the smoke rising into the air from burrows and cadavers , grey and black , the sweet smell of leaking unburned petrol coming from the Flame-thrower where I 'd left it , and I breathed deeply . |
| 3 | My Exhilarator visor was still in the grass where I 'd left it and I sat down beside it to take stock of my stings , bruises and cuts . |
| 4 | I grabbed my leather jacket from the chair where it seemed to crawl to no matter where I 'd hung it earlier and found the keys to Armstrong in one pocket and a screwed-up five-pound note in the other . |
| 5 | I suppose that Kenneth Ingram , the editor , had not quite made up his mind about what I had written , which is the reason why I had forwarded it to Eliot . |
| 6 | On discovering the bottle on the mantel where I 'd left it , my mother became quite agitated . |