Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Innocent of intrigue , Meredith suddenly discovered it in the dark depths of Lucenzo Salviati 's eyes . |
| 2 | Um well we did n't know what to do with the money , so we basically gambled it on the Grand National . |
| 3 | No problem though for Tony he just hit it to the other side . |
| 4 | He pointed up the fairway and said : ‘ Just hit it at the wee stone marker . ’ |
| 5 | We had some more Marshalls that some friends lent us and maybe a Roland JC120 — I do n't know whether those ever made it to the final edit , though . ’ |
| 6 | Then the newly installed chicane turned out to be a terrifying obstacle , though Emerson still preferred it to the old flat-out curve . |
| 7 | United deserved the win , but they nearly lost it in the closing minutes . |
| 8 | The second , does anyone want to say any about that ? it 's just that they probably sent it to the appropriate people . |
| 9 | He was handsome in an altogether splendid way and probably knew it by the haughty way he behaved . |
| 10 | He also sent it to the Royal Academy 's Summer Exhibition in 1955 together with his portrait of Elroy Josephs and another pastiche , Coriolanus ( Colour Plate XXI ) , based on a Signorelli in the National Gallery . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He also fitted it at the top end of the door . |
| 13 | Obviously a transfer of allegiance in the feudal way was much less of a strain than the submergence of a national spirit , and there was a great difference between the national spirit of Englishmen and the allegiance to the King of France or to the Great Moghul felt by the inhabitants of New France and of Bengal ; if the inhabitants of Bengal had felt that they were citizens of the nation of Bengal it would hardly have been possible for them to change to feeling they were Englishmen , but for them to feel that they used to owe allegiance to the Nawab of Bengal and now owed it to the British businessmen who had conquered the Nawab was not such a difficult transition . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Because of the angle I had no chance of getting it over the bar with my right foot so I simply hit it with the left and it went over . ’ |
| 16 | She put out a finger and tentatively slid it over the thin plastic through which the knickers , crumpled and stained round the crotch , were clearly visible . |
| 17 | In ways more amenable to women 's visual pleasure , off-beat films which then made it into the mainstream distribution circuit such as Lianna ( Nelson/Renzi ) , Desert Hearts , I 've Heard the Mermaids Singing ( Rozema ) and Percy Adlon 's work with Marianne Sagebrecht in Baghdad Café and Sugar Baby have achieved a degree of success in changing the dynamics of female objectification and sexual fantasy in an entertainment setting . |
| 18 | I then sold it to the genuine buyer , paid you back … ’ |
| 19 | North had already thrashed out a democratic manifesto for a unified opposition in Nicaragua , the leaders and himself scribbling it out in a cramped hotel room in Miami ; at the hearings , he proudly compared it to the sweaty wranglings in Philadelphia over the Constitution . |
| 20 | He held it up for the others to see and then threw it at the thin man contemptuously who automatically caught it in both hands . |
| 21 | Making a hole in the top of a roll they poured in whiskey until it was well soaked , then threw it to the screaming gulls , who swooped upon it in their dozens . |
| 22 | He pulled the horse round to face eastwards , then spurred it into the tall field of rye . |
| 23 | Lady Cook subsequently lent it to the National Gallery , London , from October 1989 to February of this year , where , for the first time seen in the company of undisputed masterpieces by Antonello , its autograph status as an Antonello was regained . |
| 24 | Sonny , of course , never made it for the final show . |
| 25 | I never used it in the like people put it in the till . |
| 26 | We went into the living-room and seized the brass clock which has always adorned the shelf above our fireplace ( oh , what strong hands he has ) , and violently enclosed it in the festive wrapping paper he found in the trash . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He certainly had it in the early days of Carry On Sergeant . |