Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adv] to 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 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He collected and threw it back to the pursuing fielder with an easy gesture-then suddenly clutched at his left side . |
| 6 | Then I took the oldest of the wasp cadavers from its little tray and tipped it on to the white pile of granules . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He eased it on to the narrow road and it coughed and spluttered along . |
| 11 | Kalchu took it downstairs to the stable twice a day when he milked the mother . |
| 12 | They took it down to the burning gha where two rivers meet in a rolling pool of green and white , and where at night the restless spirits of the dead wall to the roar of the crashing waters . |
| 13 | Sophie finished draining the abscess and injected a liquid antibiotic into the cavity , then she handed the rabbit over to Helen , who took it out to the small boy in the waiting-room . |
| 14 | I am sorry not to have replied to your fax sooner but I passed it on to the wrong person for answers to your questions on promo videos . |
| 15 | At the time he made a report to the then Keeper of the Indian Section , Robert Skelton , who passed it on to the Indian authorities . |
| 16 | A long clearance from one the Leeds defenders found it 's way into the Crewe half where upon rolling out into touch the linesman controlled it neatly with his left and passed it back to the returning Crewe player with a neat right foot pass . |
| 17 | But others are less impressive and I wonder how and why they made it through to the final selection . |
| 18 | Everett made it through to the final Qualifying School last year where six rounds are played in successive days . |
| 19 | ‘ One more thing ! ’ his voice stopped her before she made it through to the other side . |
| 20 | Of the other ranks , it was the desert veterans who made it back to the British lines , including Reg Seekings and Ted Badger , both of whom had been attached to B Squadron . |
| 21 | The spokesman for United Engineering Steels said Irish firm Malone Parkinson Project Design had bought the furnaces and associated equipment and sold it on to the Chinese . |
| 22 | WHEN THE Romans built Ermine Street , their great road from the south coast to the Humber , they deliberately aligned it close to the ancient university town of Stamford , then called Doorebriff At this strategic river crossing they established a town called Durobrivae , from which the Saxon word ‘ Welland ’ later derived , meaning ‘ raging , boiling , bubbling . |
| 23 | Donita attributed it directly to the feminist line : ‘ Because this is the first generation that 's grown up with the women 's revolution . |
| 24 | In the early 1980s , the editorial board of the Morning Star adopted a philosophy which allied it closely to the Soviet Union . |
| 25 | I gave it away to the wrong person . |
| 26 | She put it down to the dismal sound of the thaw . |
| 27 | Lee slipped off the bike and Philip wheeled it over to the other side of the road . |
| 28 | She unhooked the chair , dusted it off and carried it back to the front lawn . |
| 29 | And then she checked Well anyway the week after he 'd phoned there was no what you call in it so he wrote it in to the damn thing and said why is it when some people puts adverts in they not only put it in once they put it in three or four times the same week |
| 30 | They faxed it , I T N faxed it just to the Big Breakfast . |