Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adv] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few seconds she drew it down again and strained her ears . |
| 2 | He moved it gently forward and saw that the grate had , in fact , been recently used ; someone had tried to burn a diary . |
| 3 | He dropped his briefcase on the chesterfield , and Mrs Stych snatched it up crossly and took it into his den , while he went to the refrigerator in search of ice cubes for a drink . |
| 4 | It was but er the market was so low that he decided not to well I do n't think he could get a buyer actually , it 's just stood there so he he he let it out rather than have it stood there with the option for us to buy it but I say now the prices are lower he 's not keen on selling it at that price . |
| 5 | But Duvall smacked it dismissively aside and jabbed two steel-hard fingers at the base of Jimmy 's throat with a cold and precise disdain . |
| 6 | He looked accusingly at the cigar between his slim fingers , stubbed it out quickly and attacked the salami which , in the Captain 's opinion , could n't be the ideal food for a bad liver , but the expected complaint did n't come . |
| 7 | He used it sometimes rather than go into the factory at Newbury . |
| 8 | It is exactly the sort of corkscrew I always use but the room was so dark and I so flurried that I drove it in sideways and broke the cork . |
| 9 | Tony replaced the receiver , then lifted it once more and listened . |
| 10 | Evelyn opened it up idly and began to read . |
| 11 | Meryl switched it off again and stared across the room , her heart thudding . |
| 12 | She pulled it abruptly away and felt herself blush . |
| 13 | Scathach led the way to the gate , pulled it down again and mounted his own horse . |
| 14 | She placed it down again and sank a little into herself . |
| 15 | Mrs Geary understood it quite well and disagreed with it often . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ I took it in yesterday and asked for it to be repaired as soon as possible . |
| 17 | So he , took it back before and put brand new bonnet that they 've put on . |
| 18 | I took it back afterwards and wear it partially in his memory , partially because I 'd never have spent the money on myself . |
| 19 | The liverpool supporters , although a tadge irritated by all these cheering Yorkshiremen took it very well and gave as good as they got when they equalised . |
| 20 | It was so much the sort of remark one could only make to a girl friend , but Rupert took it very nicely and said with only slightly forced heartiness , ‘ Jolly good , and it 's an excuse for me to have a better meal than usual , too . |
| 21 | They did indeed put the kettle on , but then the Bishop took it off again and said he needed a drink more , oh , that poor fellow ; and his wife said , ‘ And his poor wife . ’ |
| 22 | I made it up there and scrabbled through into the bathroom . |
| 23 | Then he laid it down again and sat back in his seat , resting his dark head lightly against the cushions . |
| 24 | He removed it quite gently and drew her stocking off . |
| 25 | Later they gave it up entirely and went to live in their home in Ascot . |
| 26 | She put it aside now and helped Breeze to prepare the very simple meal that Roger Kenyon would share . |
| 27 | If you thought what the people said possessed an intrinsic interest , if you wrote it down verbatim and pictured yourself as a sort of secretary to the outside world , recording something which had its own imaginative value but would otherwise have been lost , then you are one sort of writer — a naturalist . |
| 28 | I said it too loudly and felt people looking at me . |
| 29 | He picked it up immediately and looked at it closely , his hands shaking . |
| 30 | A copy of Return Safe from the Wilderness lay on a workbench , and I picked it up idly and looked through it . |