Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] it [prep] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took off the first slice , you know the rather well-done , brown bit at the end , and laid it on one side of the serving dish and then he cut the next slice off for the first lady and so on . ’ |
| 2 | Zach and George dragged the case up to the bedroom and laid it on one side . |
| 3 | And things like Time Out and so on , and City Limits , tried on the listings in the culture front seem to be seduced by , on the one hand , the need to simply provide information in terms of the listings , or then they felt some kind of twinge of conscience and had to be counter-balanced by radical politics on the other side , which produced a completely split , a paper that you could tear in half and read it as two sort of separate things , and erm and they always erm and something like that always felt |
| 4 | This was quite a long passage for us , but we were lucky with the weather and made it in one leg . |
| 5 | UN relief flights to Juba — known as " Operation Lifeline Sudan " — were halted temporarily on July 21 , after Sudanese government troops had boarded a UN plane and used it for one week to transport troops and military equipment . |
| 6 | He peeled it off and threw it to one side then sat facing the three Americans . |
| 7 | She found she could n't tear her eyes away , and when he managed to get his second boot off and threw it to one side , then lifted his head , she was still staring . |
| 8 | Casually it beat the fish into stillness on the branch and swallowed it in one gulp . |
| 9 | The soldier was able to pick out his target in Copperfield Street from a distance of several hundred yards — and hit it with one shot . |
| 10 | The heavy door frame caused it some minor difficulty , which it overcame with a swing of its shoulders that tore the timber out and tossed it to one side . |
| 11 | Over a year ago she had written another book , The Professor , and sent it to one publisher after another . |
| 12 | The coroner smiled at the wine , lifted the cup and downed it in one gulp . |
| 13 | She rested the child she was carrying on the parapet , the child being asleep , and held it with one hand as she used the other to search at her breast purse for her money . |