Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the GIs called for a pen from his friend , caught it deftly in the air and planted his huge boot on the handlebar of Tony 's tricycle to write the address . |
| 2 | He threw the deadly , humming weapon into the air and caught it deftly by the shaft . |
| 3 | In that instant , I brought up my branch , so that he caught it right in the face . |
| 4 | It 's heartening to realise that you have taken the Sinead interview seriously and not just dismissed it totally as the meanderings of a bonkers woman . |
| 5 | Oliver coiled it slowly in the palm of his hand . |
| 6 | She shook her head , moved it closer to the glass , and the image changed . |
| 7 | He applied the flannel repeatedly , then wound it around her tender joint and fastened it again with the safety-pin . |
| 8 | ‘ When that failed I stuffed my right hand down its throat to stop it biting and then smacked it twice between the eyes with my left . ’ |
| 9 | The other U-boat , brought from Norway , rests on the sands of Kiel Roads , close to the gloomy German naval museum ; and Chicago being rather far , we used it extensively in the making of our film . |
| 10 | The hurdles in the dissemination race are : H0 — ‘ seeing ’ — saw advertisement H1 ‘ getting ’ — obtained material H2 — ‘ browsing ’ — learned to drive the program H3 — ‘ trying ’ — used it once in the classroom H4 — ‘ using ’ — used it regularly in the classroom H5 — ‘ absorbing ’ — sustained use . |
| 11 | The hurdles in the dissemination race are : H0 — ‘ seeing ’ — saw advertisement H1 ‘ getting ’ — obtained material H2 — ‘ browsing ’ — learned to drive the program H3 — ‘ trying ’ — used it once in the classroom H4 — ‘ using ’ — used it regularly in the classroom H5 — ‘ absorbing ’ — sustained use . |
| 12 | Fifteen of the 27 CABx who were on-line , used Lawtel several times a week and seven used it daily in the period of piloting . |
| 13 | He invariably believed completely in his own case and pursued it relentlessly to the end . |
| 14 | He was developing self-control in the classroom , but found it harder on the playground where it seemed that he was easily influenced by other children to behave badly . |
| 15 | He scrawled it quickly on the back of his card . |
| 16 | Deane waddled about seemingly distracted by something ( not the ball I might add ) and when he had a clear chance he headed it safely into the arms of Grobblebum . |
| 17 | They identified it afterwards as the seat off the chemical lavatory . |
| 18 | During the night I cut firewood for them , and added it secretly to the wood which the young man had cut during the day . |
| 19 | In my diary I recognised it almost from the beginning , probably because I made no connection between it and non-eating , but seemed to have ascribed it to being overworked academically or being hounded into sporting activities which I resented for their profound pointlessness . |
| 20 | I dropped it somewhere near the door . |
| 21 | A long clearence from defence , eventually picked up by Gary Bull , who slid past a slippery Anderson , judged it well past the keeper to poke home his 18th of the season . |
| 22 | They surveyed it together in the dressing-table glass , heavy , thick stuff falling to her elbows , the colour of barley sugar . |
| 23 | We shared our resources for lunch — the girls ' picnic sandwiches and a cold pie and some fruit I had bought that morning — and ate it comfortably in the cottage kitchen , with its grandstand view of the bay . |
| 24 | He ate it alone in the police canteen . |
| 25 | The men took the digger from a nearby building site and drove it straight through the supermarket wall , shortly after four this morning . |
| 26 | Mr Cooper drove it straight into the barn and stopped next to Nebbins |
| 27 | I drove it straight round the corner and installed it in a costly carpark on Lexington and Forty-Third . |
| 28 | Someone drove it right to the door and charged me nothing . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't know , but it would appear that someone took an axe and drove it hard against the wall , with such force the stone was marked and the wooden handle of the axe shattered . ’ |
| 30 | We happened to pass a woman pushing a pram , who for some reason produced a torch , no doubt in order to locate something , and directed it straight at the baby 's face . |