Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb past] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Innocent of intrigue , Meredith suddenly discovered it in the dark depths of Lucenzo Salviati 's eyes . |
| 2 | So whenever she was busy sewing , Corbett always recognised it as a bad sign . |
| 3 | Murdoch immediately relaunched it as a tabloid and turned it against the flagship of its previous owners . |
| 4 | Its journalists then re-founded it as an independent paper [ see p. 38372 ] . |
| 5 | One inmate then aimed it at the perimeter fence of trouble-torn Lindholme jail , Doncaster , as other prisoners pelted warders with bricks . |
| 6 | His car barely made it across the finish line , spluttering and choking , before the fuel supply dried up . |
| 7 | The three candidates never lifted it beyond a hard and drab slog . |
| 8 | The simple , laughing islanders subsequently worshipped it as a god , much to the amusement of their more sophisticated neighbours . |
| 9 | Many fanciful explanations have been advanced to account for amber , but the Elder Pliny already diagnosed it as a fossil resin of pine and the same opinion was also entertained in China before the Tang period . |
| 10 | fourteen or I had a sixteen overhead cam Cortina engine sitting up the blokes just swapped it for a two litre cos he wanted some more go . |
| 11 | When Franz arrived with it Karen deftly plucked it from the sideplate and held up a hand to silence Whitlock 's protest . |
| 12 | Cos I w he was , he was in the Post Office one day and he saw this old woman and she 'd just cashed all her giros and this bloke just nicked it in the Post Office . |
| 13 | That bloke probably took it for a ride he said . |
| 14 | A sky-blue bus lumbered past , then they shot out on to the curving mountain road behind it , and a second later overtook it with a roar that must have terrified the already nervous passengers , as the buses always drove maniacally around these bends , desperate to stick to their schedule right down to the last fraction of a second . |
| 15 | The delicious Rob Walker who , in a journalistic disguise , was and is still around in the sport , must be the only other man I ever met in FI who while at the heart of the sport never took it with the grim tenacity with which the more parvenu consider the business of winning and losing . |
| 16 | Alas , Townshend 's monster Hiwatt never made it onto the House Of Love album . |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , I know , ’ said Constance , ‘ but Mum always fed it to the cat . |
| 18 | Very deliberately , Ricci slowly rotated it into the best position for nut-cracking . |
| 19 | Conchis suddenly gaffed it into the boat , slashed its sac with a knife , turned it inside out in a moment . |
| 20 | Were the bishop or incumbent to prosecute the question of voidance in the church courts , a writ of prohibition soon removed it to the king 's judges . |
| 21 | Phormio 's alliance was hardly , given the distance of Akarnania from Athens , the considered policy of the Athenian Assembly — the general just made it on the spot — and may have been mere opportunism , for Athens made many alliances which never came to anything and were not expected to . |
| 22 | Mr Torughu promptly placed it in an envelope with his official report and sent it to UEFA . |
| 23 | The seller then sold it to the dealer for £2 . |
| 24 | Araminta almost had it as a child , but it went fair — and then mouse , poor wretch ! ’ |
| 25 | Jesse Jackson almost made it to the White House . |
| 26 | THE French count who is to marry the Princess of Wales ' stepmother , Raine , Countess of Spencer , said yesterday he felt ‘ totally abused ’ by people who rented his chateau then used it for a porn film . |
| 27 | Its vast size probably explains why it did not sell and , as it cluttered up his hallway for some time afterwards , Minton later gave it to the Royal College student and animal illustrator John Norris Wood . |
| 28 | Then the newly installed chicane turned out to be a terrifying obstacle , though Emerson still preferred it to the old flat-out curve . |
| 29 | Du Camp probably coarsened it in the retelling , and there would have been many Flaubertian redraftings before publication . |
| 30 | I still ca n't quite believe how successful Neighbours has become — particularly as the Beeb originally bought it on the cheap just to fill part of their new ‘ Daytime ’ schedule . |