Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 The air intake scoops took their final shape ; the chrome trim that divided it longitudinally in the first two cars was finally eliminated .
6 I remember that she asked me to guess what was inside a sort of pasty served to her on Thásos , and that I got it right at the first guess : macaroni .
7 Dundela got it together in the second half and it was Dean Smyth 's turn to save his side .
8 Rickie seized Thessy 's can , pulled open its top , and hurled it messily after the first .
9 Leaving , Nicholas crashed the door open and then , remembering , closed it soundlessly in the last inch of its movement .
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