Example sentences of "[adv] i [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would you rather me do it on my own |
| 2 | Perhaps I think it beneath my dignity to let myself be carried on the spontaneous flood , employing my divine gift of reason only to navigate on the course of greatest awareness . |
| 3 | Rather dubiously I put it to the Chairman and I was relieved to find that he was quite enthusiastic about the idea . |
| 4 | The situation called for some drastic action and so I laid it on the line ; either they won this game or I would resign . |
| 5 | I 'd forgotten to fetch something to put my hair up with , and so I brushed it into a ponytail and held it in place with a pair of knickers from the airing cupboard , which I twisted round and used like a scrunchie . |
| 6 | So I kept it to myself . |
| 7 | So I chucked it in the Tyne . |
| 8 | Oh , it 's up there , it fell down and erm , went along and picked it up , so I took it off them , and said , how would you like it if I threw sticks at you , anyway , they said , oh I 'm sorry , you know , they they sort of cleared everything up and went off . |
| 9 | Then I needed to have it refretted so I took it into Joe Satriani 's guitar tech and he said , ‘ Wait a minute — where did you get this ? |
| 10 | So I took it with me on the Hiroshima mission . |
| 11 | So I took it to the British Museum , who identified it for me . |
| 12 | So I took it upon myself to tell her , old nosey-parker that I am . |
| 13 | So I made it to 100 and we won the game shortly after . ’ |
| 14 | So I brought it to Gary Brawer , the San Francisco luthier who does a lot of my setup work and he filled it up — took out the springs and the bar and filled it all up with ash and we put in a regular DiMarzio stop tailpiece , with through-the-body strings . |
| 15 | So I put it to him , ‘ Being famous does n't necessarily endow a guitarist with insight into the design and workings of the guitar , so why are artists so often asked for their input and reviewers almost never , when our job is to understand , examine and pass judgement on guitars on a daily basis ? ’ |
| 16 | so I put it on the top of there , every time anybody went by they knocked it off ! |
| 17 | So I put it on the dim switch so as he can see to get in the bedroom . |
| 18 | Nothing happened so I put it in a box without a lid and went shopping . |
| 19 | so I put it in the paper and luckily somebody came along |
| 20 | So I put it in a rock this time and it was so funny though . |
| 21 | So I left it up a side street and got a taxi back to the studio where I was due to appear . |
| 22 | So I left it for a while , and I thought I will phone her and find out . |
| 23 | Terry said she was doing the stock so I left it to her . |
| 24 | So I left it till about twenty past eleven did n't I ? |
| 25 | So I got it off Maggie and I went and got yours back , fetched it back over did n't I ? |
| 26 | And er you know she asked me to cut it for her so I cut it for her . |
| 27 | This appears not to have happened in the case of Samuel Pepys 's uncle ; writing in his diary for 6 July 1661 , he related the incident of ‘ My uncle 's corpse in a coffin standing upon joint stools in the chimney in the hall ; but it began to smell so I caused it to be set forth in the yard all night , and watched by my aunt . ’ |
| 28 | So I sent it to another in New York , and he took it . ’ |
| 29 | So I clean it after every meal . |
| 30 | so I drove it in my dream to the mechanic 's |