Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The constitution of the independent Latvian republic in existence from 1918 to 1940 was declared reinstated , following the example given by Lithuania on March 11 [ see pp. 37299-300 ; 37360-61 ; see also below ] , but the Latvian Supreme Soviet immediately suspended it in almost all respects , thus seeking to avoid the key issue in the current conflict between Lithuania and the Soviet Union . |
| 2 | The perversest desire came into her head , and she cast it out instantly . |
| 3 | Once his head began to fall onto his chest but he jerked it up again . |
| 4 | That erm instead of saying ng they pronounced it as just N. |
| 5 | After a few seconds she drew it down again and strained her ears . |
| 6 | Pausing for the effect to register , Vic took the apex of the handkerchief between two fingers and drew it upwards delicately , laying bare a fist holding a green creature with bulging eyes . |
| 7 | And he drew it out actually , remember he 's only six , seven years old and what he 'd done was to put this spring loaded hanger into the back of the tube and he 'd made a kind of trigger with a little , little plastic peg , and he said here 's your gun ! |
| 8 | In the eighteenth century the Devon began to spread from its western kingdom and the well-known livestock engraver , Garrard , described it as almost the most perfect breed in Britain . |
| 9 | The model for Marx himself was the Paris Commune of March-May 1871 , though he subsequently dismissed it as merely an uprising , and not even a socialist one ( Lichtheim 1964 , pp. 112–21 ) . |
| 10 | Throughout this , Esther maintained the fiction that she was in love with her older brother Saul , and maintained it so well that not even Alix and Liz knew the truth of the matter . |
| 11 | Suddenly he crashed it down again . |
| 12 | We fixed it up as well as we could — which was n't well but it did give us both somewhere to live away from our parents , a first real taste of independence . |
| 13 | As Izzie dredged it up again , her growing hair flopped forward over her face and hid what she was thinking . |
| 14 | If , on the other hand , you judged the conversation you heard to be trivial and inconsequential and found yourself only selecting certain parts of it : if you changed it , rewrote it , rethought it completely so that it accorded with your own notion of how that conversation should have proceeded , then you are another sort of writer . |
| 15 | While in screwing the top , I moved it over slightly to give clearance for my jigsaw blade , and started to cut off the overlap . |
| 16 | Because I had one in the garden here and we moved it actually when we , we took the er hedge out er to put the fence and the gate on er and we moved it somewhere else and it er it just died off . |
| 17 | Each time Fabre moved it even slightly away from the entrance , the re-emerging wasp insisted on repositioning the cricket precisely , and inspecting the tunnel again . |
| 18 | Urquhart lifted his chair with both hands and moved it round so that he could cross his legs . |
| 19 | He moved it gently forward and saw that the grate had , in fact , been recently used ; someone had tried to burn a diary . |
| 20 | Cornelius snatched it up again . |
| 21 | He dropped his briefcase on the chesterfield , and Mrs Stych snatched it up crossly and took it into his den , while he went to the refrigerator in search of ice cubes for a drink . |
| 22 | He snatched it up instinctively , as his ancestors might have snatched up a stone when faced with a marauding tiger . |
| 23 | I snatched it up halfway through the first tinkle . |
| 24 | He snatched it away anxiously . |
| 25 | He snatched it back hastily and then looked up to where Cardiff and Barbara were hanging on to each other under the storm 's onslaught , coughing and choking in the shower of plaster . |
| 26 | Now realising that his gloved hand was touching a wall , he snatched it quickly away in alarm . |
| 27 | And it had on painted hose of black and white , so cunningly painted that no man who saw them would have thought but that they were grieves and cuishes , unless he had laid his hand upon them ; and they put on it a surcoat of green sendal , having his arms blazoned thereon , and a helmet of parchment , which was cunningly painted that every one might have believed it to be iron ; and his shield was hung round his neck , and they placed the sword Tizona in his hand , and they raised his arm , and fastened it up so subtilly that it was a marvel to see how upright he held the sword . |
| 28 | It was but er the market was so low that he decided not to well I do n't think he could get a buyer actually , it 's just stood there so he he he let it out rather than have it stood there with the option for us to buy it but I say now the prices are lower he 's not keen on selling it at that price . |
| 29 | She let it out gently , not wanting to do anything sudden or jerky . |
| 30 | She took hold of the doll and bent it slightly forward . |