Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | A rat as big as a cat scurried down a steep slope and a small bush slid down after it in the torrential downpour . |
2 | Jasper sensed some of this and vowed not to go along with it in the sheeplike fashion of the others . |
3 | Dolly let him get on with it in the usual way . |
4 | He 'd run to follow it , missed it at the traffic lights , almost caught up with it at the next . |
5 | The trees had grown up beside it in the twenty-five years since the railway had closed , and the boy stopped every now and then to watch small birds hopping around the top branches . |
6 | Under his face , half overlaid by a crag shaped like a mushroom growth on a tree trunk , entirely obscured until his eyes were close up to it by the thick vegetation , was the open fissure which for thirty days they had searched for in vain . |
7 | Past Glories suggested he is on the way back when third to Kribensis in the Fighting Fifth at Newcastle , while Floyd is not quite up to it in the highest class these days . |
8 | It occupies a small rocky island in the Kyrönsalmi Strait , which is swept by rapid currents ; the town of Savonlinna grew up around it between the two lakes . |
9 | We always called it the posh part , because although our street carried on from it over the main road , it was like being in a different village altogether . |
10 | Eventually she had found out about it in the worst possible way . |
11 | We only found out about it in the British press when we arrived in Wales . |
12 | He did quite well out of it during the last year . |
13 | I 've pulled him out of it I pulled him out of it for the simple reason , he is the only one which is , I did n't want to segregate him on his own . |
14 | I thought we might be out of it at the 4th hole in the last round . |
15 | Unbecoming as it was to their cred , the embarrassed band loaded themselves and gear into the vehicle and tried very hard indeed not to be seen getting out of it at the other end . |
16 | If nothing else you feel for a man blighted by an absurdly exalted image — and one who can make a joke out of it in the wonderful tongue-in-cheek prophecy of The End of the World that closes the album ( ‘ Nostradamus and Jesus and Buddha and me/ We said it was coming/ Now just wait and see ’ ) . |
17 | So we need to get the word of God , go out with it at the right time and leave it with people . |
18 | I soloed back up it in the last light , an orgy of vertical but easy bridging on huge holds . |
19 | Swales might , at last , have made a wise decision — if he does not go back on it at the first sign of failure . |
20 | He was particularly adept , this one , at stopping a forward bursting through from the line-out with a startling iron-hard thrust from his stump as he pulled him on to it with the other … |
21 | It is surrounded by buildings , the houses being built on to it at the eastern apse . |
22 | ‘ How did you get on to it in the first place ? ’ |
23 | Something with the consistency of cement began to splatter from Peters ' ripped torso , but still he clung on to it in the renewed savagery of his hunger . |
24 | We need to hurry but it 'll take an hour or so and I do n't want the papers on to it before the next of kin know . |
25 | No need to disturb the household , if we can come round to it from the other side . ’ |