Example sentences of "i [vb past] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I flung it on the open ledger on the table . |
| 2 | I pinned it to the corkboard with a red drawing pin and a light heart , and went upstairs again to change back into jodhpur boots to deal with the terrain and to pick up the map and the compass in case I could n't find the trail . |
| 3 | Terrified that it would try to escape or fly away , and not wanting to risk the Corporal 's anger , I pinned it to the ground by leaning a large stone against it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So I chucked it in the Tyne . |
| 6 | Carrying a tray of glasses would have been easier if the floor had been stable but I made it to the far end with only a lurch or two and delivered the goods as required . |
| 7 | I made it to the front of the clubhouse just in time to seize Jack 's bag and head for the practice ground . |
| 8 | I made it for a dancer ( Nijinsky ) who can soar like a spirit , but who has the strength to dance with the Wilis [ as in Giselle ] and live to dance again . ’ |
| 9 | Started with this device this is the thing I made it at the grammar school when I was working there . |
| 10 | Thus if I break a promise for my own convenience , I fail to treat the person to whom I made it as an end in himself , for I can hardly expect him to endorse a principle of action which allows him to be treated thus . |
| 11 | The weather was damp and chilly but the sleeping bag felt mighty good and I made it through the first night , sleeping like a log . |
| 12 | It was only a few square feet in size and I made it into a carpet of flowers . |
| 13 | And then in the , where the bath used to be , in this little bathroom I had the cooker and the washer that 's it , I made it into a little kitchen so |
| 14 | Maggie approached Godfrey and said over his shoulder , ‘ I made it by the pound cake method . |
| 15 | I made it from a pattern |
| 16 | I made it in the meat dish |
| 17 | The situation called for some drastic action and so I laid it on the line ; either they won this game or I would resign . |
| 18 | Folding the poem , I laid it on the table . |
| 19 | I laid it on the floor and I was hit in the back . |
| 20 | I commandeered it without a second thought . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | Whenever I believed I had come up with something , I probed it for every sort of oversight , tested it through from all angles . |
| 24 | My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’ |
| 25 | I stuffed it inside the file , closed the briefcase and put that back in the wardrobe . |
| 26 | That hat has been to Buckingham Palace twice because I lent it to a friend who was invited to a later garden party . |
| 27 | I shared it with a coloured girl who I got on with and we had a good laugh . |
| 28 | ‘ Then I sold it for a Telecaster , which I hated , because the Tele did n't have any knobs ; it was a real simple guitar and I did n't like it , so I bought a Les Paul and I loved it . |
| 29 | I sold it for a reasonable price . |
| 30 | ‘ I sold it to a tinker . |