Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adv] in 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 | In that instant , I brought up my branch , so that he caught it right in the face . |
| 3 | Oliver coiled it slowly in the palm of his hand . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They surveyed it together in the dressing-table glass , heavy , thick stuff falling to her elbows , the colour of barley sugar . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He ate it alone in the police canteen . |
| 11 | She threw the mess after him and then thought , I 'm cracking up , and retrieved it and buried it deep in the refuse bin . |
| 12 | One father who lives in Harley Grove , Darlington , said : ‘ I threw it straight in the bin . |
| 13 | No , my guess is that he or she hid it somewhere in the undergrowth . |
| 14 | Following their usual custom the accused kept the medal until the victim collected it later in the day when the latter would pay for it . |
| 15 | I discovered it today in the pocket of a jacket I had n't worn since then . |
| 16 | She raised it high in the air and brought it down with a crash right on the top of the wretched Bruce Bogtrotter 's head and pieces flew all over the platform . |
| 17 | ‘ The defendant clearly did not see the bicycle because he hit it firmly in the rear , ’ Mr Reid said . |
| 18 | Delaney jerked the pin from a grenade , tossed it blindly in the direction of the tracer . |
| 19 | So many times he had padded across this bedroom to go to Abigail that he knew it perfectly in the dark , only requiring to hold his hands out before him and , like a blind man , feel the bevelled comer of the wardrobe , the lacquered wicker of a chair back , the top of the radiator , cold at this hour , the glass sphere of the door knob . |
| 20 | ‘ I took it seriously in the middle of the night . |
| 21 | I took it personally in the end , very personally . |
| 22 | With great reverence we laid it here in the Treasure House . |
| 23 | They were in the wrong , and they admitted it later in the day in one of those special P.G.A . |
| 24 | And around this same period , an Englishman reading in the public library at Bagnères came upon an account of the battle of Toulouse in the Napoleonic wars which he thought too favourable to the French , and annotated it accordingly in the interests of accuracy . |
| 25 | I even thought of trying to grab it from her but she put it away in the drawer where she kept it and stood in front of it . |
| 26 | Bracknell 's youth team keeper , Dean Simmons was soon under pressure and as early as the ninth minute , Abingdon took the lead ; having forced a corner , Keith Appleton swung the ball into the area , Steve Aries won it well in the air , and knocked it down to Liam Herbert who crashed his shot past Simmons to make it one nil . |
| 27 | He sprinkled it freely in the gate opening and beyond in the passage , then turned to me . |
| 28 | He locked his fingers around the joystick again and gripped it tightly in the angle of the dive , hearing the engine-note climb and the wing bracings develop a piercing whistle that merged into a slow shriek . |
| 29 | Alice ended with a flourish of her bow , held it high in the air and found herself laughing in triumph . |
| 30 | Once , he licked his finger and held it aloft in the airstream before lowering it to point decisively along a corridor that appeared to Bernice no different from the other two that also ran from the junction . |