Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adv] [prep] [art] [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 | I drew it downwards with a clean cut . |
| 4 | 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 ] . |
| 5 | The weight of the shot drew it down through the grating and out of his sight like a skittering lizard . |
| 6 | I noticed that she was very modest in front of me , going through mild contortions putting on her undies beneath her dressing-gown , and once when it fell off , revealing her shabbily but quite decently clad in a mauve rayon slip , she snatched it up with a quick " Sorry dear " . |
| 7 | Naturally , I can resist anything but flattery and lapped it up like a hungry cat does milk . |
| 8 | You all know what Strats sound like and what 5-position selectors do , but to get an overall picture of this guitar I lined it up against a regular office hack ( a Tokai hybrid with an old ‘ 58 Fender neck and Alnico Pro II 's in the middle and bridge positions ) and can report that the SRV came out well . |
| 9 | You and Mum built it up from a seedy little run-down nothing ! |
| 10 | Michael Green , its creator , built it up from a small photo-processing company . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He used it more on the unknown Hoffman than on the others . |
| 13 | I tried it out on a modest 386SX and it still felt fast on a big test database . |
| 14 | they sent it back , I think , I thought the twelve was , was quite good actually , I thought the twelve when they went up at twelve , but then when they changed it back to the junior and infants it was the elev , the eleven and it was a bit , I think it , you know eleven might be perhaps too young , I think twelve is a reasonable |
| 15 | The Livre des Coutumes of Bordeaux contains a note that ‘ [ In 1259 ] king Henry did homage for Bordeaux , Bayonne and all the land of Gascony [ Gasconha ] which was [ then ] free allod [ franc en alo ] to Louis , king of France … but let it be known that this Gascony was the most free allod that the king of England had , before … king Henry received it back from the French king in homage ’ . |
| 16 | Instinctively anxious for its welfare ( he had not needed Jack 's admonition ) he drove it carefully at a modest pace , resisting the temptation to press hard upon the accelerator . |
| 17 | The Side , an unlovely , but beloved spot was where the miners met to squat and smoke and gossip : Burton recollected it warmly as a fraternal masculine club , much cherished . |
| 18 | Phil was so anxious to get to sea that I was finishing typing my report as we entered the lock , and handed it up to the local officer as the seaward lock gate opened . |
| 19 | When the great man was exiled to Elba the diamond was returned to his father-in-law , Francis I of Austria , who duly handed it back to the French authorities . |
| 20 | The process of demystifying the monarchy , necessary if it was to survive the second half of the twentieth century , turned it instead into a grand soap-opera , in which some minor members of the family seemed only too happy to play a demeaning part , one of the more absurd examples occurring when several of the Queen 's children took part in the television party-game show It 's A Knockout ! |
| 21 | She took the paper napkin from her lap and crunched it up into a tight ball , dropping it on to her plate . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Whitlock mounted one of the police motorcycles , kick-started it , then slewed it violently in an ungainly one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn and took off after the getaway car . |
| 24 | Libby would not watch ; she hated the high-pitched squealing as the rabbits panicked , hearing a stick thump or a shot ring out , seeing the warm fur parting in the breeze as someone threw it down beside the other corpses . |
| 25 | He collected and threw it back to the pursuing fielder with an easy gesture-then suddenly clutched at his left side . |
| 26 | ANGLER David Moor , 31 , hooked a 64 pound carp — British record is 51 pounds — then threw it back into a French lake . |
| 27 | She hid it away behind a bright , brittle insouciance which plainly worried Elise to death , but for several nights wept silently into her pillow , utterly shattered to find she 'd wanted Penry 's child quite desperately without even realising it . |
| 28 | In his public statements on the dispute Lal portrayed it both as a factional struggle , between himself and members of Janata Dal who had come from the Prime Minister 's Jan Morcha group , and as a conflict between urban politicians and a representative of rural India . |
| 29 | Shutt got the ball about 15 yards out and hammered it low into the right corner ( Nice goal Carl ) . |
| 30 | She immediately opened it again from the other side . |