Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] it [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I tease it with a tender rage |
| 2 | I was feeling so bad that I treated it as a kind of moral victory that I was able to empty most of the water out of the obviously Gav-filled kettle and leave the level at the minimum mark . |
| 3 | Not every day , nor as often as I would wish , but I took my middle daughter to see it yesterday and we hugged it together , and two days before that I hugged it with a friend . |
| 4 | It really should n't work , but the wretched book is so irresistible that I devoured it in a day , fighting off friends and strangers who fell on it like vultures on a carcass the moment it was cast aside with a happy sigh . ’ |
| 5 | But it is impossible for me not to feel that my body is other than I , that I inhabit it like a house , and that my face is a mask which , with or without my consent , conceals my real nature from others . ’ |
| 6 | I got so tired of having juice pouring into my bag that I take it in a little lemonade bottle now . |
| 7 | Obvious efforts are being made here to reduce the damage , which was much worse than I remembered it from a previous visit . |
| 8 | I try to justify it in terms of training the intellect to think in an abstract and critical way , so I regard it as a general education . |
| 9 | There 's at least one track from all eight albums , and two tracks are from a live album , so I gave it to a wonderful guy called Jonathan Downs from the Fan Club , who knows an awful lot that I 'd forgotten myself , or never even knew ! |
| 10 | Once I showed it to a psychical research woman who , after careful study of the plan of Versailles , said to me in a tense voice : ‘ You realize that the two ladies went bodily through a brick wall ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ And me buying it from a stall in the flea market only last week . ’ |
| 12 | Both my husband and I accepted it as a part of our way of life . |
| 13 | ‘ I did n't know at the time it had been in the Quakers boardroom but it was a good , handmade , solid oak table and I got it for a reasonable price , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Everyone sits quietly in the room and the leader draws an imaginary circle with a finger and says ‘ Here I have the wonderful magic circle and I sign it with a dot . |
| 15 | ‘ The gate 's open , ’ she said , ‘ and I wedged it with a brick . ’ |
| 16 | And I fought it for a long time and I wanted to get kick-started back to where I was before , because I felt under a cloud . |
| 17 | I said 't would not suit you , and I meant it as a compliment . |
| 18 | When Stephanie 's mother died we found in the bungalow a watch , it must of been given I would of thought to her father probably for his twenty first and I took it to a jewellers in Elton , well that 's all he does is watches actually apart from jewellery . |
| 19 | Then she held out her hand to me , and I took it for a second . |
| 20 | Yeah I 'd considered buying it and all that , you know it do n't take five minutes you know , and I took it for a test drive |
| 21 | It was only a few square feet in size and I made it into a carpet of flowers . |
| 22 | I tell them that I have the heart of a small boy and I keep it in a jar on my desk ’ |
| 23 | They gave me money , and I put it into a jar like Granny had with the egg money . |
| 24 | I had been there and I knew it as a beautiful seaside resort , but that was n't why I was so delighted . |
| 25 | It was this last that gave him pause , for , he was to say , ‘ Although I had no knowledge of it — that place where the Twelve Judges sit — I believed that I had long since dreamed it , and I knew it for a place of great finality and immense power . |
| 26 | I brought grim news , and I delivered it with a certain mournful pleasure . |
| 27 | I knew I could do well academically and I did it as a challenge to the conventional idea of the black kid who 's good at sports , yet with no brains . |
| 28 | ‘ It takes , they say , seven years to make an electrician ; and I did it in a fortnight . ’ |
| 29 | And I 'll do mine so I had three sixty and I split it as a ten times thirty six and then I had two times five for that ten okay ca n't go any further there . |
| 30 | Finally I for one would nt be too bothered if Howard left.What he has done for the club will always be remembered , but no one man is bigger than the club ( apart from maybe Don ) , and I have it from a very good source that if Howard leaves the club , Leeds will soon run into 15 million quid.Is he worth that much ? |