Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adv] [subord] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We termed it thus because the depression arose from role performance and not from their psychopathology .
2 That she achieved it just when the company was set for major expansion , was an accident of timing that Bernard was determined to exploit to the full .
3 He took the crank-handle , inserted it in the hole at the bottom of the radiator and , encouraged by a chorus of ‘ One , two , three , heave ! ’ , swung it energetically until the engine sprang to life .
4 I found my penknife and kept it close as the shadow of a vulture wheeled over the tent .
5 Corbett devoured it hungrily while the gaoler watched impassively but , when Corbett tried to ask him a question , slapped him in the mouth , grabbed the bowl and waddled out of the cell .
6 If on the other hand if they got it genuinely after the policy was enforced , that 's the risk that we take .
7 He did it automatically when the girl attacked the man who 'd been fighting with her father , recognizing it as a natural reaction to shock and grief .
8 He did it twice before the bottle broke .
9 Apart from anything else , this project is worth a great deal financially and I 'd be a fool to myself if I forfeited it just because the client is an obnoxious , egotistical swine .
10 Part of her embraced it gratefully whilst the other , the sad , secret part , rejected and resented it , all the while clinging blindly to what had been .
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