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 | The weight of the shot drew it down through the grating and out of his sight like a skittering lizard . |
| 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 | 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 |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He collected and threw it back to the pursuing fielder with an easy gesture-then suddenly clutched at his left side . |
| 14 | Shutt got the ball about 15 yards out and hammered it low into the right corner ( Nice goal Carl ) . |
| 15 | She immediately opened it again from the other side . |
| 16 | Then I took the oldest of the wasp cadavers from its little tray and tipped it on to the white pile of granules . |
| 17 | Mary Rose took off her mink and handed it to a large redheaded girl , who looked at it and stroked the silky fur before she hung it up on the back door among the muddy anoraks . |
| 18 | But to reach the third , Nicholas bent low and , crossing the ditch like a lizard , reached the base of the wall and , in its shadow , followed it round to the left , John and the other two following . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She held the feeling in tight , she squashed it down under the heavy pasteboard covers of the recipe book . |
| 21 | We heard it yesterday from the hon. Member for Dagenham , who referred to the community charge register as a threat to civil rights . |
| 22 | I loved it right from the off . ’ |
| 23 | I think they showed that one Christmas or something and were watching something else and we turned over and the instant we turned over , this girl wobbled across the screen , and my mum straight away switched it back on the other side me and me brothers right in the other room watching there . |
| 24 | He pushed her aside and unclipped the 331b launcher from the tripod then carried it to the back of the van where he dumped it on to the grey blanket which they had used to cover it . |
| 25 | They hammed it up in the spectacular 17th century building unaware that smoke from the candles was blacking up the beautiful hand-painted ceiling . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He hated it especially now as he dragged it out of its corner in the garage , squeezed it between his Vauxhall Viva estate car and the twins ' tricycles , and rolled it on to the uneven surface in front of the garage doors . |
| 29 | He eased it on to the narrow road and it coughed and spluttered along . |
| 30 | Thérèse flew at the washing-up while Léonie clattered coffee and tisane on to the silver tray and took it through into the white salon . |