Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb past] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes went to her head and he snatched her hat free and flung it into the back of the car . |
| 2 | The sentence trailed off as Hitch pulled the Beretta free and aimed it at the crewman . |
| 3 | Teesdale District Council turned down an application for the sign on the ground of it contravening the town area local plan but the inspector said it was acceptable and allowed it for the next five years . |
| 4 | Now Lizzy had taken all that her grandmother held dear and dragged it through the dirt . |
| 5 | Louis carefully folded his handkerchief into a square and laid it on the deck beside his chair . |
| 6 | He calmly snapped the sawn-off closed and swivelled it from the hip towards me . |
| 7 | Swansborough closed the file with a snap and pushed it across the desk . |
| 8 | The economic affairs commissioner , Henning Christophersen , said the overall Clinton plan was encouraging and compared it with the EC 's own plan to spark the economy out of recession . |
| 9 | Two of the drovers took a strip of white cotton about 20 yards long and held it across the top of the quay , and it did for a fence . |