Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something in his demeanour made a tremulous question form in Katherine 's mind , but it fluttered away at the distinctive sound of Violette 's infectious laugh . |
| 2 | Mattan and the yellow jersey were right in the middle of the pack as it peddled hard in the blistering heat . |
| 3 | Against the broad yellow light Cameron and Menzies could see the officer in silhouette , walking his horse forwards to meet a crowd in the road where it levelled out after the sharp rise from the bridge across to Grandtully . |
| 4 | Patronage did not die out with industrialization ; it lived on through the honorific offices of county clubs and national bodies . |
| 5 | It crept in amongst the ordered ranks of hieroglyphics in a simple line of graffiti , scrawled in French , on the hull of one of the royal barques : " You must not forget me . " |
| 6 | In the Far East , the Azahari revolt broke out in Brunei in December 1962 ; and , although it was crushed relatively easily by British and Gurkha troops stationed in Malaya , it led on to the Indonesian ‘ Confrontation ’ , which began in a small way in April 1963 . |
| 7 | At first the gospel of family limitation appears to have been spread most effectively among the middle classes before it percolated through to the working classes . |
| 8 | It headed away from the distant airport building , a single-storey edifice , away from the main road to Rovaniemi , heading east cross-country into the wilderness . |
| 9 | The sound of the engine starting up was a welcome intrusion , the smooth glide of the craft as it moved out into the main stream a gratifying feeling . |
| 10 | Slowly , it moved upwards among jagged folds of rock hanging like petrified curtains above their heads ; it swung to the right and travelled downwards , glistening on a myriad crystalline particles in the rock face ; it moved across to the left and traced a black line where the stone floor ended abruptly just short of the far wall . |
| 11 | One might think that this unpredictability would n't matter too much if it occurred only at the big bang ; after all , that was ten or twenty billion years ago . |
| 12 | When it drove away over the ochre expanse , it broke into pieces and dissolved in the air . |
| 13 | In return BBC Scotland received £27 million to make the programmes screened during the periods it opted out of the national network , and £14.5m towards the cost of making programmes in Scotland for the network . |
| 14 | The amber liquid shook in the glass and some of it spilled on to the tan cloth of her Burberry . |
| 15 | It roared back into the black last year to the tune of £6.8 million , compared with taxable losses in 1991 of £1.2 million . |
| 16 | If the Joseph story told of the healing of conflict among brothers , it told also of the proper fulfilment of the bond between father and son . |
| 17 | As it came away from the cold flesh , so she cut it into strips , and she wrapped each strip of skin around a piece of bone . |
| 18 | Milwall have the lead that 's the important thing here it came over at the far side of the penalty area , had got up for it Ray and the Kennedy there was also a Middlesbrough foot in there . |
| 19 | It came off on the playing field and so there was no way I could find the little screw . |
| 20 | The first intimation of it came out of the blue , but I can not ignore the fact that she has persisted in it . |
| 21 | It jolted up the lane , slowed down as it came out into the open area in front of the quarry gates , and stopped . |
| 22 | Fleming went on to describe how the nasal secretions of the patient ( himself , in fact ) were cultured , and how a round microbe or coccus first grew and then was destroyed where it came close to the nasal secretion . |
| 23 | The bus came and they boarded it , but to Erika it seemed less like the familiar old lumbering , lurching , yellow Berlin bus , and more a vehicle of romance , gliding through a night made mysterious by more than fog . |
| 24 | The waves around these rocks churn up a salty froth that is said to resemble cotton-wool , though to me it seemed more like the foaming spit of an angry sea-serpent . |
| 25 | His vivid persona might have been contrived , but it chimed in with the national mood . |
| 26 | By the time he had got clear of the dog fight the Albatros was a couple of hundred yards away , closing on the two-seater as it chugged westwards against the implacable wind . |
| 27 | The Irish tag was redeemed for a small reward and it was only when it arrived back in the Central Fisheries Board office , Dublin , that Sea Angling Officer , Peter Green , discovered that a new distance record had been set for their shark tag scheme . |
| 28 | At the end it climbed steeply onto the high ground on which the old Roman fort had been built . |
| 29 | Although the CNAA was not itself formally involved in this planning , it was involved in the consultations , and at various points it linked in with the continuing policy developments . |
| 30 | It differed considerably from the big brash construction currently on display at the town hall , which stood beneath a sign which read |