Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 He opened it up at the last minute , came flying over and it was a terrific shot .
5 Number one was Bob Dylan and she cut it off after the first sneering words of despair .
6 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 .
7 You should take it in but you did n't — just rolled it on to the next beat .
8 Well he brought it up in the first place .
9 The Nazis took it over during the Second World War and made it into a museum of the German Army .
10 The air intake scoops took their final shape ; the chrome trim that divided it longitudinally in the first two cars was finally eliminated .
11 It 's 45 years since Cheltenham Town made it through to the second round of the cup .
12 Bangor Reserves , though , made it through to the second stage with a 2– win over Chimney Corner at Allen Park .
13 Dundela made it through to the second round with a 4– win over Armoy at the weekend , but they needed extra-time to do it .
14 David Stewart and Fiona Thornton-Norris , from Corsham School , made it through to the third Gold Run and the really big prizes .
15 Only one of this year 's Crufts group winners made it through to the last forty !
16 I remember that she asked me to guess what was inside a sort of pasty served to her on Thásos , and that I got it right at the first guess : macaroni .
17 Dundela got it together in the second half and it was Dean Smyth 's turn to save his side .
18 MORE than 1,000 runners disturbed the lazy calm of a country Sunday morning as they battled it out in the 11th Crosby 10k event .
19 The champion jockey had been waving the whip in his left hand and when he put it down inside the last furlong , I must say that the clear impression from behind my glasses was that he thought the race was over .
20 Police folklore tells of one officer who , having found a dead body on the street at the end of his duty , shifted it on to the next beat .
21 Rickie seized Thessy 's can , pulled open its top , and hurled it messily after the first .
22 The phone on the wall close to her rang and she picked it up at the second ring .
23 She picked it up at the third ring .
24 Leaving , Nicholas crashed the door open and then , remembering , closed it soundlessly in the last inch of its movement .
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