Example sentences of "[vb past] it [vb infin] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moving the light round the half-circle , he let it rest on the third stone from the mouth of the chamber on the right hand side — the one which had been so prominent in his ‘ photograph ’ . |
| 2 | The torch she hardly used at all ; only once or twice , shading it within her palm , she let it flash upon the paler gravel of the path , to align her passage alongside the faintly glowing water , and then snapped it out again quickly , to avoid reliance upon its light as much as to conceal her presence here . |
| 3 | The longer she gazed down , through the tendril of tobacco smoke , the more the meeting merged into the older , stronger established patterns and colours of the valley floor until , eyes half-closed , she saw it disappear into the ancient landscape … |
| 4 | As I said last week , he c he er made it appear to the British that he s sought to control the channel ports and with a large navy was then capable of interfering with our trade and in in indeed mounting an invasion , and that brought Britain into a war which could not be ended until the Germans sued for surrender and vice versa . |
| 5 | How did it develop in the sixties ? |
| 6 | But how did it look to the light beams ? |
| 7 | Indeed why did it flourish in the first place ? |