Example sentences of "i [vb past] it [prep] " 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 I felt the jolt in his chest as I hugged it in rhythm against mine and for a long second could n't believe it , but then he heaved again in my arms and coughed in my face and a mouthful of dirty water shot out in a spout and he began coughing in earnest and choking and gasping for air … gasping , gulping air down , wheezing in his throat , whooping like whooping cough , struggling to fill his functioning lungs .
6 So I chucked it in the Tyne .
7 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 .
8 I made it to the front of the clubhouse just in time to seize Jack 's bag and head for the practice ground .
9 So I made it to 100 and we won the game shortly after . ’
10 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 . ’
11 Started with this device this is the thing I made it at the grammar school when I was working there .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 I made it past that
15 I made it past I made it past there
16 I made it past I made it past there
17 It was only a few square feet in size and I made it into a carpet of flowers .
18 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
19 I made it up myself . ’
20 Maggie approached Godfrey and said over his shoulder , ‘ I made it by the pound cake method .
21 I made it from old aluminium tent-poles , some of which I had found in the attic a long time previously and some I had got from the town dump .
22 I made it from a pattern
23 Luckily , I made it in time .
24 I made it in the meat dish
25 Not that it came to me just thinking : I realized it at school .
26 I laid it on them over there in Washington — I mean , but hard .
27 The situation called for some drastic action and so I laid it on the line ; either they won this game or I would resign .
28 Folding the poem , I laid it on the table .
29 I laid it on soil ; the shoulders managed
30 I laid it on the floor and I was hit in the back .
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