Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [adv] to [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bowing down everything and driving it back to its cave . |
| 2 | We 're just a few miles away from the Meadowses ’ place , ’ he added , reaching forward to extract a map from the glove compartment , and tossing it on to her lap . |
| 3 | Then , unexpectedly , he reached up and covered her hand with his own , pressing it firmly to his shoulder . |
| 4 | Is he fetching it round to your house or |
| 5 | The assistant began banging his calculator on the ground and holding it up to his ear |
| 6 | He let go of Leila who rubbed her wrist , holding it close to her chest . |
| 7 | Holding it close to his face between two big hands , speaking to the picture , he said , ‘ Sweet child . |
| 8 | He slid the table into the centre of the room , tipping it on to its side , and dragged over the couch with Mariana still on it , so that the furniture formed a fort . |
| 9 | She took the paper napkin from her lap and crunched it up into a tight ball , dropping it on to her plate . |
| 10 | Genius is the bust of Beethoven and Keats dying and Shelley dying and the size of War and Peace and poor old Sartre banging away at his trilogy and Hemingway paring it down to its essence and Monet unable to distinguish colours any more and Picasso staring out at the camera with his chest bare and his eyes blazing and Cézanne snarling like a dog and then walking out of Aix with his canvas and paints on his back to paint that mountain and Byron dying and Pushkin dying and all the rest of it . |
| 11 | Bringing it back to my point , though , there are people , if you have a typewriter , you do n't have to know how to work the typewriter , erm it seems to me , that we 're actually , the more we do , we make matters worse for ourselves . |
| 12 | He glanced at his watch , bringing it close to his face because of the poor light . |
| 13 | It is vital to find the essence in the traditional idea by tracing it back to its origin . |
| 14 | Doctor Anderson was tying her hair back , pinning it tightly to her head . |
| 15 | North also managed to slip a piece of paper ( ’ Next time you are in Washington please contact me , my name is Oliver North ’ ) into the hand of Alfonso Robelo , a contra leader , in a reception line ; Robelo then had the problem of transferring it invisibly to his pocket . |
| 16 | About 100 yds after passing confluence of streams cross right-hand path to river where safe , and ascend a few yards to reach well-defined path which leads parallel to right-hand stream , following it up to its source . |