Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She leaned forward and tapped his hand where it lay on the coverlet , supporting his weight . |
| 2 | He visited his father 's body where it lay in the abbey church of Fontrevault . |
| 3 | Everyone had seen the dead dog on the path , bloated and grey and bald where it lay in the mud , and the heaps of excrement , all teeming with the same flies that were sharing their food : and the association flooded their throats like vomit . |
| 4 | With a sudden flash of rage , she hurled the Browning far out across the dock , where it splashed into the water and disappeared . |
| 5 | Riverside conditions such as that , must have continued to exist for a very long time , for when the Romans arrived and established — about A.D.47 — a settlement astride the River Fleet where it ran into the north bank of the River Thames , the River Fleet was about two hundred yards wide at that junction . |
| 6 | I tried to dust the grit off my forearm where it adhered to the sweat . |
| 7 | Mick began , then paused where it asked for the name of the vehicle 's owner . |
| 8 | I followed the telephone cord and found where it went into the wall . |
| 9 | As for Eliot himself , he seemed to make himself absolutely at home , as he usually did in a small gathering , and he swung his leg over the arm of the comfortable chair , where it reposed throughout the visit . |
| 10 | Working with the head of naval aviation , Admiral Shigemi Inoue , Yamamoto submitted a detailed memorandum to the Minister — where it rested for the moment . |
| 11 | Ken put it on top of the locker , where it staggered around the perimeter mewing and testing space with its paw . |
| 12 | The designer is thus presented with information on the type of " failure " , its value , and where it occurred during the mechanism event . |
| 13 | From Iran turquoise was carried as far afield as west Caucasia , where it occurred in the Maikop barrow in the Kuban , and north Mesopotamia , where it was present in the same tomb at Tepe Gawra as lapis lazuli . |
| 14 | When the partnership was dissolved he moved his office to Great George Street , Westminster , where it remained for the rest of his life . |
| 15 | Profitability displays no trend between the mid-fifties and the mid-sixties , although it dipped in the recession of the late fifties ( figure 8.2 ) . |
| 16 | I am happy to acknowledge the views of the Northern Ireland Economic Council , and the questions that it had at the time of its submission need to be dealt with . |
| 17 | Although parliamentary government did not cease to work , it no longer appeared to be working in the way that it had in the past . |
| 18 | The first half dealing with the historical aspect of the Ju 52 , its development and predecessors , and the impact that it had in the world of air transport , concentrating mainly on the type 's civil use . |
| 19 | Mrs Palichuk sank onto a scarlet kitchen chair and eased off her drab grey winter coat so that it draped over the back , retaining , however , the black kerchief which modestly veiled her hair . |
| 20 | The appellants applied to discharge the registrar 's order on the ground , firstly , that it was in all the circumstances oppressive and secondly , that it amounted to the use of section 236(2) for a purpose not intended by Parliament . |
| 21 | He had raised his voice so that it carried through the babel of the many conversations at the high table , and even reached the nearest of the lesser knights below . |
| 22 | Mine was so tight that it cut into the skin . |
| 23 | Police said at the time that it looked like the work of the IRA . |
| 24 | One further point that is often made to explain the nature of the New Criticism is that it developed outside the ambit of the main university graduate schools , in small colleges mainly in the South . |
| 25 | She glanced at it uneasily , remembering that it ran past the witch 's cottage . |
| 26 | A huge , heavy , panelled oak door faced it , and peering through the windows I saw that it led into the mill kitchen . |
| 27 | Thereby he had represented to the finance company that the van was not his but that it belonged to the trader . |
| 28 | Erm , what other rational is there behind this definition , the reason this matters is th you will remember the Chairman 's opening remarks when we started on matter two , that it seemed from the debate we had yesterday there was room within the county for the County Council 's proposed level of housing provision |
| 29 | Her tea was getting a vigorous stirring , so that it swirled around the cup . |
| 30 | George Jones has quoted from The Times of 1880 to show that it existed before the creation of the present local authorities ( Jones 1969 : 150 ) . |