Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adv] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She shook her head , moved it closer to the glass , and the image changed . |
| 2 | He invariably believed completely in his own case and pursued it relentlessly to the end . |
| 3 | During the night I cut firewood for them , and added it secretly to the wood which the young man had cut during the day . |
| 4 | Someone drove it right to the door and charged me nothing . |
| 5 | GUIL : We played it close to the chest of course . |
| 6 | I had explained this to Aunt Louise , who enjoyed her bath and filled it almost to the top ; but she took no notice , becoming affronted and resentful if I reminded her . |
| 7 | She had been on the very edge of the steep hills which surround the basin in which Orvieto sits ; and the basin itself was alive and moving , swirling with smoke , with smoky white mists which filled it almost to the brim . |
| 8 | He handed it across to the Colonel who noticed with some satisfaction that it was addressed to him by name and not merely as commanding officer . |
| 9 | The text of Lumen Gentium had been more or less left alone , but it was now prefixed by an ‘ Explanatory Note ’ ( Nota praevia ) which , it was clear when Archbishop Felici communicated it formally to the Council two days later , had come from Pope Paul himself . |
| 10 | Who remembers or cares that it was he , who as minister of local government , introduced the poll tax and defended it passionately to the death ? |
| 11 | Dyson swung the wheel to the left , then swung it sharply to the right again to avoid a lorry which was overtaking him on the inside . |
| 12 | He then took the rope through her front and back legs and tied it firmly to the back bumper of the Mercedes , which Angel had backed into the yard . |
| 13 | Someone swiped one of little Alec Davidson 's gym shoes and tossed it ahead to the front of the uneven column . |
| 14 | She was sent the script for one of the episodes — she has never said by whom — and was so enraged by one scene in which the councillor was to have been seen leaving a prostitute 's room doing up his trousers , that she sent it straight to the Postmaster General , the Minister responsible . |
| 15 | Most of the early studies on the causes of union growth related it primarily to the influence of the business cycle and its key components , including employment , industrial production and price changes . |
| 16 | This encourages logging companies to send over plain logs , but it would be more profitable if the countries themselves designed and built furniture and fitments and sold it direct to the West . |
| 17 | She whisked Nicandra 's large linen napkin off her knees and tied it round her waist , then joined her own to it and knotted it securely to the back of Nicandra 's chair . |
| 18 | He was the first to concede that on occasions a judge got it wrong to the extent that a sentence was passed which was wholly unacceptable . |
| 19 | She left it right to the end of the evening . |
| 20 | Carson hooked his fingers under the phone base and carried it across to the Chesterfield . |
| 21 | He picked up the lamp and carried it across to the picture . |
| 22 | Then he dragged it away to the drawing-room . |
| 23 | I said it afterwards to the clergyman . |
| 24 | You pushed it away to the back recesses of your mind , but it crept and crawled about and then annoyingly broke through the surface again . |
| 25 | Carefully she drew it out through the folds of the eiderdown and held it close to the flame of the nightlight . |
| 26 | She remodelled it with careful fingers , then held it close to the flame . |