Example sentences of "[coord] i [vb past] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both my husband and I accepted it as a part of our way of life . |
| 2 | ‘ I did n't know at the time it had been in the Quakers boardroom but it was a good , handmade , solid oak table and I got it for a reasonable price , ’ he said . |
| 3 | ‘ The gate 's open , ’ she said , ‘ and I wedged it with a brick . ’ |
| 4 | And I fought it for a long time and I wanted to get kick-started back to where I was before , because I felt under a cloud . |
| 5 | The bucket had a rope attached to its handle and I skimmed it over the stern to haul up a gallon or so of sea-water which I slammed down in front of Rickie . |
| 6 | And of course we 've always had closed circuit television at the underground car park in Gloucester Green , and I had it from the words of another Conservative Councillor , Councillor Ann Spokes , that she always uses Gloucester Green car park because it is so safe and so secure . |
| 7 | I said 't would not suit you , and I meant it as a compliment . |
| 8 | When Stephanie 's mother died we found in the bungalow a watch , it must of been given I would of thought to her father probably for his twenty first and I took it to a jewellers in Elton , well that 's all he does is watches actually apart from jewellery . |
| 9 | And I took it to the people up on Royal Parade , who are constantly having burglaries , no , that 's that 's true , they have had several quite chunky burglaries |
| 10 | Then she held out her hand to me , and I took it for a second . |
| 11 | Yeah I 'd considered buying it and all that , you know it do n't take five minutes you know , and I took it for a test drive |
| 12 | The weather was damp and chilly but the sleeping bag felt mighty good and I made it through the first night , sleeping like a log . |
| 13 | It was only a few square feet in size and I made it into a carpet of flowers . |
| 14 | I had a flat tape recorder with a directional mic and I stuck it on the table and above me was a speaker through which all this muzak was coming out . |
| 15 | I was out at a friend 's house , we were opening a bottle of beer , the top had jammed , and I stuck it in the heel of the door to get the top off , and it exploded , I suppose it was too shaken up with everyone handling it . |
| 16 | So I took the envelope off those tickets and I tore that up and wrote down and I stuck it in the water heater that the sitting room fire may be on , please check . |
| 17 | Alice wrote it down and I stuck it behind the clock . ’ |
| 18 | My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’ |
| 19 | MY HUSBAND bought me a watch as a birthday present , but it kept losing time and I returned it after the holidays . |
| 20 | However , we had in the aircraft a rather antiquated device ( certainly World War I ) of a message bag with a coloured streamer and I put a message in the bag and I dropped it near the control tower . |
| 21 | And I left it on the side instead of leaving it in the grill . |
| 22 | It required absolutely no breaking in and I wore it for the first time on a nine hour Scottish hill day during the May heatwave in complete comfort . |
| 23 | It 's easy to forget that it 's over eight years since Pepsi and Shirlie first sang with Wham ! and Shirlie still laughs at the memories : ‘ When we started out I had one dress and I wore it to every photo session — I could n't afford any more ! ’ |
| 24 | I remember one dress , it was brocade , and I wore it to the opening of the opera . |
| 25 | I had been there and I knew it as a beautiful seaside resort , but that was n't why I was so delighted . |
| 26 | It was this last that gave him pause , for , he was to say , ‘ Although I had no knowledge of it — that place where the Twelve Judges sit — I believed that I had long since dreamed it , and I knew it for a place of great finality and immense power . |
| 27 | Cos Michael started it , he said we 're never said anything when we set off in the car , and then he said that he 'd had this fax from me and er Andrew said , well it was n't actually from , er , from me to the , it was fetched up to me and I sent it in the office . |
| 28 | Fred Titmus bowled the right sort of ball and I smashed it in the direction of the pavilion . |
| 29 | I brought grim news , and I delivered it with a certain mournful pleasure . |
| 30 | I found something a shade patronizing in her attitude , and I interpreted it as an attempt to upstage me ; perhaps to test me , to see if I was worth playing against . |