Example sentences of "[coord] i [vb past] it [prep] a " 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 | I said 't would not suit you , and I meant it as a compliment . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Then she held out her hand to me , and I took it for a second . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | It was only a few square feet in size and I made it into a carpet of flowers . |
| 10 | I had been there and I knew it as a beautiful seaside resort , but that was n't why I was so delighted . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I brought grim news , and I delivered it with a certain mournful pleasure . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I knew I could do well academically and I did it as a challenge to the conventional idea of the black kid who 's good at sports , yet with no brains . |
| 15 | ‘ It takes , they say , seven years to make an electrician ; and I did it in a fortnight . ’ |
| 16 | Do n't ask me how — but I knew it without a shadow of a doubt . |
| 17 | That used to be a completely different tune ; I had the lyrics , but I played it on an open tuned National , then when I got the Strat and plugged it into an old Fender Vibrolux amp , it became what it became on record . |
| 18 | " I could n't possibly afford the flat if I were renting it now , but I got it on a long lease just after the war , when rents were much less than they are today , " she said . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | But I did it with a heavy heart , I can tell you . |
| 21 | I know I should n't have gone near the sea , but I did it as a protest . |
| 22 | Er but I did it at a scale like erm one centimetre for o for every hour it 's blowing in that direction . |
| 23 | ‘ It would have taken forty-five minutes by bus , but I did it in a quarter of an hour by bike , ’ he said . |