Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | point of order , the point that I made make it on this side is that we are not against the expenditure . |
| 2 | I lived to regret it . |
| 3 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
| 4 | ‘ I tell you , Charles , it was only after I heard that they 'd signed up Micky Banks that I agreed to do it . |
| 5 | But he was clearly relieved when I agreed to accept it at his hands . |
| 6 | I was determined , so I agreed to pay it back every week . |
| 7 | While I was testing the Seayak on the west coast of Ireland I failed to pull it far enough up the beach on the night of a rising spring tide . |
| 8 | They caught the sparks that showered from my own tiny anvil and I failed to think it odd . |
| 9 | I planned to do it alone in the first place . ’ |
| 10 | I was bitterly ashamed of what I was doing , or letting people do to me , but also of course I got to like it , and even crave it , in a manner of speaking . |
| 11 | It was quite away from the area I 'd been brought up in , but I got to like it and make friends , and I got more independent . |
| 12 | No I ge , I got to see it |
| 13 | Cos I did that last week and I got rid it and I ca n't remember how ! |
| 14 | I got to whisk it , whisk it |
| 15 | I got to know it pretty well when I was living in Sheffield and I 'd recommend anyone to take a walking holiday there . |
| 16 | It seemed a simple system when I got to know it , but wondered what it was all about , with chaps standing in different places and shouting and bawling where they wanted this waggon that was being pushed off , as he came running without the train they diverted it into siding , you see , sorting out a train . |
| 17 | ‘ If I got to have it done , I 'll go back to the place I was before , back down the Duke 's Ferry Road . |
| 18 | No , cos I got to show it and I ca n't |
| 19 | I got to bring it up cos Bet likes |
| 20 | But the farm , the Belle-Etoile , was not where I expected to find it . |
| 21 | I expected to hate it , but in fact I enjoyed my lectures on English language history and became an enthusiastic advocate of exercises in parsing , syntax and dictation — the very best test of listening comprehension . |
| 22 | While the leg craved attention , I strained to forget it , even using rubbish as a distraction . |
| 23 | Saying this to me was like holding a red rag to a bull : the more anyone told me not to do a thing , the more I tried to do it . |
| 24 | People would look at me and think , ‘ No , she 's not the type , she would never try to top herself ’ , but I tried to do it when I was in Cookham Wood . |
| 25 | They asked me why I tried to do it — whether I was attention-seeking ! |
| 26 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 27 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 28 | I tried to do it really well because it was my last grade . |
| 29 | Well I tried to tidy it up before we went to school and they were flinging it all out again and there just was n't time ! |
| 30 | It slid up faster and faster , though I tried to hold it down . |