Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb past] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | and that was my Barclaycard number in case you want it although I ordered it through the thr phone I made out that so that I could read it off on the telephone I did n't even erm I did n't even assemble it I just looked and I saw it does n't chop I thought it would chop things but does n't , it only grates Looks as though it had been out before , you know , you look at this ! |
| 2 | Obvious efforts are being made here to reduce the damage , which was much worse than I remembered it from a previous visit . |
| 3 | Vera 's not back from lunch , so I kept it at the desk . ’ |
| 4 | It rang while Elizabeth was in the field and I picked it up and someone spoke to me , but I can not speak , so I tore it from the wall and then no one could speak to me . ) |
| 5 | ‘ Your tea is ruined so I threw it in the bin . |
| 6 | I had n't been out for a long time , so I did it for the relaxation , really ! ’ |
| 7 | There 's at least one track from all eight albums , and two tracks are from a live album , so I gave it to a wonderful guy called Jonathan Downs from the Fan Club , who knows an awful lot that I 'd forgotten myself , or never even knew ! |
| 8 | Once I showed it to a psychical research woman who , after careful study of the plan of Versailles , said to me in a tense voice : ‘ You realize that the two ladies went bodily through a brick wall ? ’ |
| 9 | If I had it on a solid floor , but it 's got ta go , do n't forget it 's on a a wooden floor . |
| 10 | If I hit it with the chair-back … |
| 11 | The vermouth was dark red , and I wondered what my mother would do if I poured it on the mushroom-coloured carpet — very slowly . |
| 12 | I did n't realise how clear her speech was until I heard it on the tape . |
| 13 | It had not been out of the cupboard for some months and it really showed off until I treated it to a stiff drink ( surgical spirit ) and a nice massage with an oily rag . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Walking out of the Ladies , I suddenly saw Mum 's face in front of me like I saw it in the dream — sinking , drowning in bubbling mud — trying to spit the oozing slime out of her lipsticked mouth but the more she spat it out the more slithered in … |
| 16 | Cos I had it for a month , cos I did n't know whether I was gon na like it , I 'd never been on one before and er I 'd heard Judith say that you could feel claustrophobic , you know , with it over you |
| 17 | That hat has been to Buckingham Palace twice because I lent it to a friend who was invited to a later garden party . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I am praised because I held it by the tail . ’ |
| 20 | I know that was you but y you do n't , I mean I remember u the fire we used to have here and it was n't till I gave it to a friend , I mean we kept here for a year alright , lucky enough , we did n't use it anyway I gave to a friend who doing car boot , I found it in the attic an he said to me Brenda , he said , did you ever use this fire ? |
| 21 | The book was printed a month after I sent it to the publisher . ’ |
| 22 | My father said the 17-horse power would use too much petrol , but it gave me a year 's pleasure before I swopped it for an A30 van . |
| 23 | The essay has since been listed in several bibliographies , and has exerted an influence which , when I composed it as a kind of riposte to the British Council 's purchase of the copyright of that crack-brained idea from its originator , C. K. Ogden , I could not have foreseen . |
| 24 | ‘ When I took it to the beach it went brrmm , brrmm , up and down the sandhills . ’ |
| 25 | I could n't figure out which were and when the girl er , you know , when , when I took it to the counter she she said , ooh this is good value for four ninety nine ! |
| 26 | That afternoon the wheelbarrow even stuck when I pulled it off the road for a break . |
| 27 | ‘ But when I tried it as a young kid I could n't even hit the pitch for several years . |
| 28 | When I used it with a 50lb rucksack there were no sweaty damp patches . |
| 29 | It is worlds apart from school as I knew it in the 1960s . |
| 30 | The following is a typical example of the character of the RAF as I saw it for the first time about a couple of months after I got to Baghdad . |