Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took it along to Stationers ' Hall on 2 November 1691 and entered it in the Stationers ' Register to establish copyright of a sort : |
| 2 | The captain of the Rebecca Sims described it in the ship 's log as a brownish-grey reptile at least 45 metres long . |
| 3 | Well , your mother came rushing in from the car with a rare display of energy and snatched it from the fellow 's hands . |
| 4 | He fetched a soiled length of plough cord which had obviously seen much service and fastened it round the cow 's hock . |
| 5 | Very probably he gave Arp the drawing , who used it with the artist 's consent . |
| 6 | I know that was you but y you do n't , I mean I remember u the fire we used to have here and it was n't till I gave it to a friend , I mean we kept here for a year alright , lucky enough , we did n't use it anyway I gave to a friend who doing car boot , I found it in the attic an he said to me Brenda , he said , did you ever use this fire ? |
| 7 | This is a rather strange piece of behaviour , which gave rise in the l9th century to the belief that the female cuckoo swallowed her egg after laying it and then regurgitated it into the host 's nest . |
| 8 | So he accompanied the engine to Brooklands and installed it in the owner 's aeroplane . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Steadying the hook , Mary negotiated it into the fish 's gill slit . |
| 11 | He reversed his grip on the blade and drove it through the daemon 's chest . |
| 12 | She picked up a knife lying on the draining board by the sink , and drove it towards the man 's hand . |
| 13 | At four o'clock Louise arrived on her scooter and parked it outside the Bristows ' council house . |
| 14 | Every hour after the operation , a nurse took his temperature and plotted it on a progress ' graph . |
| 15 | As Kopyion walked towards him , Carlson ordered him to stop , aimed his weapon and fired it at the general 's shoulder . |
| 16 | Eventually MacPhie found he could break the spell of the magic thread if he cut it with the woman 's magic hatchet . |
| 17 | Alan snatched up an osier basket and hung it on the cockerel 's rusty head to hide it . |
| 18 | He pressed it into the fellow 's grimy paw . |
| 19 | Walton created Wal-Mart and developed it into the nation 's largest stores chain with annual sales of $44 billion , but always maintained a down-to-earth approach . |
| 20 | He thrust it into the man 's hands and strode past him , making for the open doorway set in the centre of the long white portico that ran the length of the house . |
| 21 | Having discounted that source , Allen next heard it from the horse 's mouth . |
| 22 | I got a two-tine fork and shoved it into the bull 's neck and shouted . |
| 23 | Waiting a moment , he placed it to the boy 's mouth again . |
| 24 | Lifting the spoon from the bowl , Tuan Ti Fo placed it to the boy 's lips , tilting it gently . |
| 25 | So remorseful was Shiva that he took the head of the first creature he encountered and placed it on the boy 's shoulders . |
| 26 | Three guys hijacked it from the Company 's yard but I saw then and climbed into the refridgeration unit at the back . |
| 27 | Together they offered it to the world 's women . |
| 28 | ‘ I saw it at the doctor 's on the board — an ’ I wrote it down after last week — I did n't know what else to do . |
| 29 | He liked that contempt , that resentment ; the first time he saw it in the boy 's face he knew it reminded him of something , but it was weeks before it came to him what it was . |
| 30 | Saw it in the People 's Bookshop window on the way home . |