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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He used it more on the unknown Hoffman than on the others . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Mr Edgar tried to get hold of the key , but she threw it quickly into the hottest part of the fire . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Shutt got the ball about 15 yards out and hammered it low into the right corner ( Nice goal Carl ) . |
| 19 | She immediately opened it again from the other side . |
| 20 | IN Britain the development of the railways followed the Industrial Revolution , accelerated its impact , and pressed it forward into a new phase . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In his dramatic resignation statement before a huge press conference in the Ministry of Defence on the afternoon of Thursday 9 January 1986 , Heseltine explained his sudden walkout at that morning 's Cabinet meeting in terms which raised it high above a small , troubled helicopter manufacturer in the West Country . |
| 23 | We heard it yesterday from the hon. Member for Dagenham , who referred to the community charge register as a threat to civil rights . |
| 24 | I loved it right from the off . ’ |
| 25 | Alfie Stewart cleared it off the line , but only into the path of Johnny Jameson who steered it home from an acute angle . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I righted the wheelbarrow with effort , turned it round , and pulled it backwards up the same yard , but no further . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | On the way back , I set down the grassbox , unplug the sprinkler and coil the hosepipe ( which Pa , being always so busy , has obviously forgotten ) in even circles around my hand and elbow , then go to the shed and lay it carefully over the two dowelling pegs . |