Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] it [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thanks to deft chairmanship and bluntness , he drew from it a respectable report that won praise for its forthrightness . |
| 2 | Rushing over to the open suitcase standing on a side table , she snatched from it the long paper-cutter she had brought back for Harold from New York . |
| 3 | When I came across it the other day , I was slightly embarrassed . |
| 4 | ‘ But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind called Euroclydon . |
| 5 | He withdrew from it a rare bound second volume of Palestine Illustrated by François Schotten , published in Paris in 1929 . |
| 6 | Although the horn lent itself to delicate work and when finished had a smooth feel , its natural colour , yellow , mottled and streaked with grey , was so unattractive that the Chinese stained the objects they carved from it an artificial brown . |
| 7 | At first I thought about it a good deal , naturally , and the more I thought the more I liked it . |
| 8 | About the homework bit er I thought about it the other day and obviously mine was n't brought up we 're having a set detention night are n't we ? |
| 9 | But when she thought about it an odd picture came into her head ; a picture of herself innocently lifting the lid of a box and letting out a dark , shapeless shadow … |
| 10 | Her tone teasing , she added , ‘ If you went about it the right way I 'm positive you could have her eating out of your hand in no time at all . |
| 11 | ‘ She also said if you went about it the right way you could have me eating out of your hand . ’ |
| 12 | Now the carriage cleaning inspector had a good job if he went about it the proper way . |
| 13 | But they went about it the wrong way . |
| 14 | It brought with it a wrinkled piece of brown paper tumbling down the street . |
| 15 | His recent return to England brought with it a 120-day qualification ban and he admitted : ‘ This game will be crucial because I need the extra edge . |
| 16 | Harnack himself defended that development as necessary for the survival of Christian faith in the ancient Graeco-Roman world , but believed it must now be transcended , for it brought with it the immense danger of transforming the original and authentic gospel of love preached and exemplified by Jesus into abstract intellectual formulae , of confusing the husk with the kernel . |
| 17 | Carefully Dalziel reached into his inside pocket and took from it a large envelope . |
| 18 | Fabia watched as , dropping the dog lead on to a large kitchen table , the dark man addressed a few remarks to the woman who then went to a drawer and took from it a large tin box and brought it to him . |
| 19 | So , when Nicandra , freed , threw herself uninvited into the depths of an embrace , she took from it no true satisfaction , Aunt Tossie had deprived her of her martyrdom and its crown as well . |
| 20 | They saw in it a narrative paradigm which offered the possibility of meaning in their individual experience to all men . |
| 21 | The work is enormous — comparisons with the second piano concerto are entirely justified , as familiar melodic and rhythmical thematic material pounds in the ears — and Conway and Evans brought to it a satisfying feel of sonority and stature . |
| 22 | I stared at it a long time . |
| 23 | I looked at it the other day and I thought I must remember to ask . |
| 24 | Unfortunately it bought with it a heavy infestation of ‘ Bundesbank ’ cockroaches , sponsored by the cockroach travel company . |
| 25 | ‘ Josephinism ’ in religious matters , again , it is now clear , had behind it a long tradition extending back to the first years of the century . |
| 26 | He spoke these words in French , and it was the French , somehow , that carried with it a particular poignancy for me . |
| 27 | In fact all matter had within it a divine spark of life . |
| 28 | It had on it an enormous photo of Bernard in hot pursuit of a cartoon of two bikini clad girls . |