Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Images of food drew it onwards to the tall , detached house at the end of the street ; thoughts of petting and cuddling from its playful , pleasant owners made it scamper through the shadows . |
| 2 | A firm hand caught hold of her left arm , drew it away from the female curve of her body . |
| 3 | Britain 's rescue drew it deeper into the American orbit , though with the introduction of Marshall Aid to promote the economic recovery of Europe by means of financing balance of payments deficits , this was to a degree common to western European countries [ Milward , 1984 ] . |
| 4 | We played with Gary player for the first two rounds and he was as miserable as sin about our luck with the weather because we caught it again for the second round . |
| 5 | Turning first to the stroke , Mozart used it deliberately in the following three ways : ( 1 ) to indicate an accent without a staccato ; ( 1 ) to indicate a staccato with special emphasis of either accent or sharpness , ranging from hail to heavy rain ; ( 3 ) to mark a staccato , usually without special emphasis , that serves to separate clearly a single note from a group of slurred notes . |
| 6 | He used it more on the unknown Hoffman than on the others . |
| 7 | At last he was freed , and gritting his teeth , Jack took the small forearm firmly in his hands and lifted it quickly off the last spike . |
| 8 | Like other elements of the left-wing movement , however , activists in this sphere were subjected to extensive government oppression , which prevented almost all activity until 1918 and hampered it severely from the late 1920s . |
| 9 | But Bosnich almost threw it away in the 38th minute when he fumbled a Jeremy Goss shot and was grateful to see Earl Barrett scramble the ball past the foot of his own post . |
| 10 | Mr Edgar tried to get hold of the key , but she threw it quickly into the hottest part of the fire . |
| 11 | Shutt got the ball about 15 yards out and hammered it low into the right corner ( Nice goal Carl ) . |
| 12 | She immediately opened it again from the other side . |
| 13 | She dosed the door softly behind her , took off her coat and folded it neatly on the small divan bed and snuggled down in the flowery corner armchair . |
| 14 | We heard it yesterday from the hon. Member for Dagenham , who referred to the community charge register as a threat to civil rights . |
| 15 | I loved it right from the off . ’ |
| 16 | It still ran away from him but he grabbed it again at the second attempt before it went over the line and the chance had gone . |
| 17 | I righted the wheelbarrow with effort , turned it round , and pulled it backwards up the same yard , but no further . |
| 18 | With both hands she pulled her right foot out from under her left thigh and placed it flat on the green carpet as a dancer will consciously reorganize his body . |
| 19 | Alone at his desk in the library , Henry Agnew put down his pen , blotted the page and placed it neatly atop the growing stack of paper at his side . |
| 20 | On the way back , I set down the grassbox , unplug the sprinkler and coil the hosepipe ( which Pa , being always so busy , has obviously forgotten ) in even circles around my hand and elbow , then go to the shed and lay it carefully over the two dowelling pegs . |
| 21 | On the second day after she first saw the white gleam she saw it again in the same place . |
| 22 | What we are seeing them is an acknowledgement that the gallery system as we knew it early in the eighties , has really changed . |
| 23 | Kalchu took it downstairs to the stable twice a day when he milked the mother . |
| 24 | This formalism has been extended to space-times with two space-like Killing vectors by Kitchingham ( 1984 ) , although he initially applied it only in the cosmological context . |
| 25 | The air intake scoops took their final shape ; the chrome trim that divided it longitudinally in the first two cars was finally eliminated . |
| 26 | It was true that the chains ' capacity for negotiating good deals made it hard for the family-run business to keep going , and they had many letters offering businesses for sale , and the price of shops was coming down all the time . |
| 27 | She stroked its neck , led it away from the interested crowd and over to the grass . |
| 28 | They had n't heard the scratching sounds since Daak had straightened out the protesting shuttle and lowered it serenely towards the whorled ridges that made up the top of the space station . |
| 29 | She was trembling as she bent down and inserted it carefully into the left-hand drawer of the desk . |
| 30 | Her partner lit the candle , and inserted it deep into the Arab girl 's vagina . |