Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [noun] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it tumbled through the air it stretched out its arms . |
| 2 | As Morton produced the manila folder from his pocket , Sir Rufus seized it and began leafing through the papers it contained . |
| 3 | In the extensive research undertaken for the book it became clear that a number of particular issues posed the greatest challenges to potential returners and to prospective employers . |
| 4 | When it met after the Conference it set up a subcommittee to draft acceptable Standing Orders with which it could approach the Labour Party National Executive . |
| 5 | He 'd forgotten about the way it flickered before it came on properly and made a noise . |
| 6 | If the hummingbird comes back too soon , there will not be enough food to compensate for the energy it had to expend in getting there . |
| 7 | As it moved beneath the hole it stopped . |
| 8 | By the time the 90mph train smashed into the benches it had lost only about 5mph . |
| 9 | If central Asia could not be approached from the Caspian it had to be penetrated from the north , which meant bridging the gap between Russia 's south-eastern military outpost at Orenburg and the Aral Sea . |
| 10 | Music giant Thorn EMI continued to revel in the support it received yesterday following its stunning profits rise . |
| 11 | Grabbing defeat from the jaws of victory , Haffey let in a shot it seemed easier to save . |
| 12 | Fran smiled , her face aching from the effort it cost to make the lie seem like the truth . |
| 13 | Even the shirts which had been left for many weeks in my laundry out-tray responded to the punishment it dished out . |
| 14 | Returning to the circuit it became apparent that it would be wise to fly a larger pattern than normal for a microlight type aircraft , because of the good glide ratio , and I was advised to throttle back and fly at around 45 knots . |
| 15 | Barry Took , who wrote the first forty shows of the series with Bernard Merriman , remembers it all with an affection that is certainly not confined to the money it bought him . |
| 16 | Their behaviour was at times appalling ; when little they would spend long stretches of each class on the floor behind the benches , playing with bits of mercury , pricking it with needles and pen nibs , watching it slip into the coarse splintery cracks of the dusty floorboards , and forcing it out again , marvelling at the way it shrugged the dirt off its rounded shoulders . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | But helped by the wind it cleared the hump in the middle of the fairway , bounced high off the forward slope and ran through the narrow gap between the bunkers . |
| 19 | The news might well be outdated by the time it reached the curia , messengers and even legates might be seized , as Cardinal Leo was by King Imre of Hungary , and the curial instructions might well be outdated when they reached their target . |
| 20 | The army that was fighting there , particularly its professional component , was still bruised by the defeat it had sustained in Indochina in the early 1950s and was determined not to repeat the experience . |
| 21 | Nevertheless the underlying sentiment had a good deal to do with Iraq 's inability to stand by the treaty it had signed with Britain at Portsmouth in 1948 , and resentment aroused by post-war developments in Palestine did little to help . |
| 22 | But somewhere it says about the amount it cost , but I mean if must be like that . |
| 23 | Thus the Tabula Rasa flourished in its peculiar , purposeless way , gathering to talk about the secrets it kept , as Roxborough had decreed , and enjoying the sight of the city from its place on Highgate Hill . |
| 24 | As Bacci emerged through the blue fog that had collected near the door it occurred to the Captain that if Fusarri had been the normal sort of Substitute he would have had to go and report to him at his office , leaving his own smoke-free . |
| 25 | obviously it was no good he , you could smoke like a chimney it made no damn difference the state his insides were |
| 26 | Price recounts the experience of one UI client which bought a range of ‘ open systems ’ equipment supporting Posix , assuming that applications would be portable across the mix of SVR4 , Ultrix , HP-UX and AIX environments that came with the kit it purchased . |
| 27 | But when he came into the picture it had been cast and the script had been done , and he did bring about a lot of changes . |
| 28 | Before the cinema opened the men on the staff were given cigars to puff , so that when you came into the foyer it had that smell of luxury . |
| 29 | Little was known about the substance in those days , but this form of defence , relying mainly on the naivety of the jury , was met with the derision it deserved . |
| 30 | This was a fraction of the damage it eventually suffered from the acquisition it made instead , Crocker National . |