Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [vb past] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I carried mine , then I put it in my pocket and further along the route I gave it to someone in the crowd . ’ |
| 2 | And I says , it 's an old lake dwelling , and er of course I mentioned it to this chap , just switch it off the now . |
| 3 | Thing was in fairness Martin er er it 's actually the sociability side er both both of you talked about the house did n't you and how , how long you came here and of course I changed it to how , the directions er which you gave me now |
| 4 | I packed my things , and as I was manoeuvring the car I reversed it into a ditch from which it would not shift . |
| 5 | I did n't approve of what he was doing , but if I refused his money I would be more and more visible , so I took it , and when he had gone off in relief back towards the dining car I gave it to the barman . |
| 6 | In my warm , sleepy contentment I expected it to be Toby , the Toby of before . |
| 7 | Yes that was a nice , good job I mentioned it to her was n't it ? |
| 8 | At a particularly exciting point I dropped it between the seats in front , and insisted that my parents ask the people to look for it . |
| 9 | It 's for this latter meaning I chose it as the name of my new holiday company . |
| 10 | And I think I had about , I do n't what I 've done really but I just , the following day I felt it in my , my groin , the left side of my groin down my leg and up my stomach . |
| 11 | I was able to follow up that evening , for my father gave me a lovely chrysanthemum bloom from his greenhouse and the next day I took it to her home and asked her mother , who opened the door to my rather nervous knock , if she would give it to her daughter . |
| 12 | That is where I spilled vodka on it the day I wore it for the first time . ’ |
| 13 | The person I got it from . |
| 14 | ‘ As sure as hell not to see through , that 's a fact ! ’ he ripped into her flatly , and , before she could draw breath , he prodded at the folder that lay on his desk and rapped , ‘ You read perfectly well from this file — without your glasses — the night I delivered it to your apartment ! ’ |
| 15 | Yeah and that 's another thing I found I had a letter from the Social Security saying would you please send your order book back you 're not entitled to any more money , your sickness benefit 's run out , I thought it ca n't have , I do n't go back until the twenty fifth of March , phones up for the appointment I got it on the fifth of March , nine days ago |
| 16 | In use I found it to be very acceptable ( to quote Prime Minister Major ) and it ran all the DOS and Windows packages I threw at it — and here 's the rub . |
| 17 | Having got that near to international cricket I owed it to myself to try again . ’ |
| 18 | Started with this device this is the thing I made it at the grammar school when I was working there . |
| 19 | I 've named it after the viral strain I developed it from . |
| 20 | I ordered it at the branch of the Times Library then housed in Elliston and Cavell 's , the nearest equivalent to Harrods in the Oxford of pre-war years , and remember with what excitement I received it from their admirable librarian Miss Lush ( now Lady Ormerod ) at the end of my day 's work in the Bodleian . |
| 21 | Do n't always , last year I had it on the . |
| 22 | Well last year I did it at Latton Bush . |
| 23 | In a way I knew it in a way I had |
| 24 | That 's not the way I wanted it to be , but I had had a lot of disappointments lately . |
| 25 | The Prime Minister added : ‘ Every Parliamentary answer I have given or letter I despatched has been based on the position I understood it to be . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ It had the same effect on me the first time I saw it at night . ’ |
| 27 | For a long time I had it in mind to write a story contrasting the fates of Eck and his British counterpart . |
| 28 | At the time I accepted it as a marvellous background for the all-important hunting , though too young really to appreciate this privileged glimpse of Indian court life . |
| 29 | This time I studied it in good sunlight , because some of the colours are so dim or so dark that one can hardly see what the pattern is all about . |
| 30 | It is the lint and fluff on my old winter coat , stuck to the sleeves like dead bugs , and it is the same old towel hanging from the rack in my bathroom , stiff with decay but still pink , still the shape it was over a year ago , the last time I used it , the last time I shoved it across my stubborn wet flesh and up between my legs and rough through my tangle of sopping hair , the same hair , the same hair . |