Example sentences of "i [verb] it [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I soon realized that if I made it a bit spicy , I 'd get more than threepence for it , so I used to make up limericks , things like ,
2 I made it a rule — which , it is true , he broke from time to time when he had something particularly pressing or intimate to convey — that he should not drop into French while we were together .
3 When I saw from the papers that Miss Ella Shields , the original Burlington Bertie from Bow , was to appear for a week at the Pantages Theatre on Hastings Street , I made it a point of seeing the show .
4 I made it a condition that I 'd only do it with an American choreographer , and my assistant is American , too . ’
5 Not a condition that mature , worldly Luke Denner ever believed in , and I fought it every step of the way . ’
6 It is , I make it a couple of minutes past
7 I make it a rule to go at least three times .
8 When I go along , say , to open a fete or spring fayre , I make it a rule not to rush straight away after my little speech .
9 I make it a rule never to mix business with pleasure .
10 I make it a rule never to drive at more than forty-five in a built-up area . ’
11 ‘ Sorry , but I make it a rule never to have working lunches — so bad for the digestion , I find .
12 I found it a bit disturbing sometimes but I just had to accept it .
13 I found it a bit stilted , but Ted thought it warm .
14 I found it a bit too hypnotic for comfort .
15 I found it a bit odd that a sensible girl should write about them in that — that romantic way . ’
16 Having read what the Queen 's Speech says on matters of foreign policy , I must say that I found it a bit of a mish-mash .
17 I think the other thing also , I found it a disadvantage actually having it on the table , I think if I 'd just left it on the like that
18 When I first visited Yad Vashem in 1978 , I found it a place of unanswerable accusation .
19 Once I had said that I found it a lot easier to speak to her .
20 I found it a lot easier .
21 ‘ I 'm rather lame people in the village say you 've caught arthritis , and I caught it a year or two ago but my brain has n't entirely given out .
22 ‘ If I approached it the way I usually work , I 'd agree .
23 I want it a bit smaller this .
24 I used it every day in my writing and after reading the Simontons ' book Getting Well Again , had started toying with it as an anti-cancer technique almost as soon as I left hospital .
25 I used it a lot mixed with transoxide yellow when painting in rock outcrops .
26 I sense it the moment we are inside the front door .
27 I told it the way it felt , not as it actually was .
28 I wash it every day and use plenty of light conditioner but I do n't stick to one brand .
29 I count it a privilege to have been asked to become its chairman — though naturally I would wish it had been in happier circumstances .
30 I shake it a bit and hear a rattling , so I look inside .
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