Example sentences of "i [vb past] it the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I approached it the way I usually work , I 'd agree . |
| 2 | I told it the way it felt , not as it actually was . |
| 3 | I happened to have with me the journal of Dorothy Wordsworth on my trip to the Dales as I had forgotten to return it to the public library , and you have my word that I dropped it the instant I was made aware that they were harbouring a drug addict . |
| 4 | I have n't , I have n't got a clue but I knew it the minute the second you said it I knew it . |
| 5 | ‘ I knew it the moment I saw it last Sunday . |
| 6 | I thought it the gesture of someone who has noticed a fellow human being about to step in something horrible but who is too polite to draw attention to the fact by seeming sorry for her . |
| 7 | I bought it the day you were paying Victoria 's bills . ’ |
| 8 | The vehicle was originally a petrol but before I bought it the engine was replaced with a Gold Seal factory rebuilt diesel unit . |
| 9 | I had no idea why Hughie McNab wanted to change my face , for I liked it the way it was . |
| 10 | ‘ I liked it the way it was . ’ |
| 11 | I liked it the week before when they did that Halloween thing |
| 12 | ‘ And I spotted it the moment we drove off from my flat , ’ Newman rapped back . |
| 13 | I said it the issue before last while reviewing Iron Man on compilation , and I 'll say it again — it 's difficult to see how the game could be any better ! |
| 14 | This dream : I had it the night after Mum-in-the-mud , the night after English Lit when I 'd sat and stared at these dead simple questions — I mean , ‘ Examine Mark Antony 's friends , Romans , Countrymen speech with a view to its effect on a modern audience ’ . |
| 15 | I had it the coat , I 've just taken my coat off |
| 16 | Now the funny thing about it , when I took metallurgy I got , I , I got all this process I knew all about it you know , and er I had it the theory explained to me then , but er I was in the Bell one day about twenty years ago and an old boy came in and I started talking to him and he says , I bet you do n't know what I am ? |
| 17 | I was bathing you , and I fetched a clean nappy , and when I unfolded it the letter dropped out , and we read it . ’ |