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 | We have n't really er when it got up to the bigger businesses we used |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Patronage did not die out with industrialization ; it lived on through the honorific offices of county clubs and national bodies . |
| 6 | 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 . " |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Practice Richard Ashworth and ors v Berkeley-Walbrook Ltd ; CA ( Russell , Stuart-Smith LJJ ) ; 27 Sept 1989 As a general rule , where a counterclaim could properly be relied on as a set-off and where it arose out of the same subject matter as the claim , the counterclaiming defendant ought not to be required to give security for costs of that counterclaim unless there were exceptional circumstances . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | For you the tape measure did n't shrink — it just followed the wonkyness of the two-dimensional surface as it hollowed out into the third dimension . |
| 11 | Then it headed straight for the nearest suitable planet and effected a landing . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The fundamental issue , however , was not disposed of by this , and we shall see in chapter 7 how it erupted afresh in the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 17 | When it drove away over the ochre expanse , it broke into pieces and dissolved in the air . |
| 18 | The audience included pupils , parents and guests — some of whom thought it compared favourably with the nineteen thirty-nine classic starring Laurence Olivier ; |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The amber liquid shook in the glass and some of it spilled on to the tan cloth of her Burberry . |
| 21 | Some of it spilled inadvertently on the nearest congregation , particularly Carmella and Joey . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ Do you think I 've lost a fortune only to see it salted away in the same nip-cheese fashion as before ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Inevitably it came down to the same couple of answers — her mortgage , her job . |
| 28 | It came back to the same thing . |
| 29 | It came off on the playing field and so there was no way I could find the little screw . |
| 30 | The first intimation of it came out of the blue , but I can not ignore the fact that she has persisted in it . |