Example sentences of "[adv] i [verb] it [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I thought it no less than my duty to book us into somewhere special on the west coast for a week . |
| 2 | So I did it a lot . |
| 3 | The plates still had some food on them but although I found some meat , it had a strange gloopy liquid on it so I gave it a miss . |
| 4 | ‘ Let it work its way through him , ’ said Ellen to Brenda , ‘ let it work its way through and out ; the harder I put it the faster it will happen . ’ |
| 5 | And when it came out I gave it a puff in my little rag , and made sure the others did the same . |
| 6 | I used to think it bad enough parting from you , but now I feel it a hundred times worse . |
| 7 | Now I think it an accident — intended for some other . ’ |
| 8 | Right then I take it the minutes of the last Annual General Meeting haven been circulated already ? |
| 9 | Okay , then I get it every month . |
| 10 | But as , as I say it was a job at that time and and in fact I 'd never , this was the only factory I had n't fancied , working in was the B M K , and yet I like it the best . |
| 11 | One about Flaubert , one about Ellen , one about myself My own is the simplest of the three — it hardly amounts to more than a convincing proof of my existence — and yet I find it the hardest to begin . |
| 12 | This is why I call it a pessimistic theory . |
| 13 | It 's the kind of place best avoided after dark ; it makes me think of poor Moley , and Ratty 's warning , and that 's why I call it the Wild Wood . |
| 14 | I mean we hardly went into another shop and yet , you see , we have a young chappie like yourself who comes to the Guild once every year and shows us slides of old Walsall , Walsall Wood , Aldridge , the local area , and he said I 'm not very good Ruth at talking but he he 'd got the slides you know , and it , it used to end up with me doing the commentary on Walsall Wood , because you stand on the of Walsall Wood , which is there now , and your Co-op was right on the corner which is why I call it the corner store and you see people congregated there , people met there and when I 'd been accused of the , we 'd been at the college or at other conferences and why ca n't we get Guild members today , well that was the breeding ground your shop , you see . |
| 15 | I made no comment on this at the time ( though privately I thought it a brash boast ) but when we met for the interview I asked if he had brought the pendulum with him . |