Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] it [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is as if we have frozen the beauty or anaesthetized it in an image ; but the images are like the humming birds of a museum case , the real and living beauty is incomparably brighter for those birds are gems that flash their iridiscent colours in a tropical forest . |
| 2 | I cooked it over a fire or dried it in the sun . |
| 3 | ‘ One man wrote or told it in a book ( the Bible ) , another in a picture . ’ |
| 4 | Someone who has received an object in exchange is like a buyer ; and so is someone who has received it in payment or retained it after settlement of a law suit or obtained it on the basis of a promise otherwise than as a gift . |
| 5 | His whole life seemed to hang on each letter in Annie 's hand , his eyes following it until she handed it into the crowd or placed it on a pile to one side and then he would fix on the next letter and the next . |
| 6 | Folly had to stifle the impression that he had conjured it by magic — or called it like a horse . |
| 7 | Rather , she must have inherited it or bought it at a jumble sale for the sake of something to cover herself as a rest from her everlasting black or perhaps ( most likely ) found it in a drawer of her newly married bedroom , chosen for her by Uncle Philip as suitable for his wife to wear on Sundays . |
| 8 | The United States , faced with an allocation problem , began a review of its defensive commitments that led it to the conclusion that in the event of a military confrontation with the Soviet Union in Europe , the resources it could commit to the fledgling NATO alliance would be insufficient . |
| 9 | That this was true offered no excuse to the sick , evil , vicious minds that used it as a tool . |
| 10 | Like someone in a trance , she gazed at the clasp that fastened it at the throat . |
| 11 | Brand new — in first class condition it must have cost many times that to make , being in heavy tin and having a lid with collapsible handle that turned it into a frying pan . |
| 12 | They recorded information on the circumstances of the death and the symptoms and signs that preceded it on a form that included both an open history of the final illness and screening questions for the presence of common symptoms , followed by the application of appropriate modules with precoded answers . |
| 13 | Similar preoccupations dominated the issues that took It into the spring of 1967 . |
| 14 | She found the rabbit , chewing on a stubby cactus , and stabbed it in the neck . |
| 15 | She walked across to the dresser flattened the cheque out and laid it beside the bucket . |
| 16 | He took off the heavy overcoat he was wearing and laid it across the top of the filing cabinet . |
| 17 | She made an offering of flowers and fruits , spurred pennants of scarlet heliconia from the rainforest , blue-blushed rue and sorrel vines with tendrils trailing , and laid it on the pit . |
| 18 | He and Broughton carried the dead body of Hilary Frome from its resting place at the top of the stairs , and laid it on the bed in the sick bay . |
| 19 | She took the dress and laid it on the bed again . |
| 20 | Wycliffe took her letter to Riddle from his pocket and laid it on the desk in front of her . |
| 21 | Louis carefully folded his handkerchief into a square and laid it on the deck beside his chair . |
| 22 | He took the flare from its bracket and laid it on the top of the trap-door . |
| 23 | He took a 78 from the shelf in the cabinet , wiped it with a fat hand , and laid it on the turntable . |
| 24 | I pulled out some money and laid it on the bar , followed by a pair of black leather driving gloves with the tops of the three middle fingers cut off the right hand , a tube of mint-flavoured lip salve and a metal hip-flask engraved with the words : ‘ I am not a diabetic ; in case of accidents please rush me to the nearest public house . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I 've got your tissue-typing result , Juliet , ’ said David , and laid it on the bed-table . |
| 26 | Cranston took out his dagger and laid it on the floor beside him . |
| 27 | Pulling a little face , she carefully folded the tea-towel she 'd been using and laid it on the work surface . |
| 28 | She drained her glass and laid it on the cane table . |
| 29 | I took my gun out of the closet and put two bullets in the magazine and laid it on the table beside my bed . |
| 30 | He frowned , pulled the napkin from his lap and laid it on the table as he stood up , shrugging apologetically to his mother , seeming to indicate that it was the kind of thing that had happened before , from time to time . |