Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I leaned forward , put my thumb under my lip and jerked it up to give him a close-up view of the long gash and the trailing blood-stained ends of the stitches . |
| 2 | Mum snatched it up to see what we had got but Dad forestalled the outburst he knew was coming . |
| 3 | Although the recession was said to be the major cause , blame was also aimed at tycoon Gerald Ratner , whose father founded the firm and built it up to become Britain 's biggest jewellery chain . |
| 4 | If anything , they would have been better off contributing less prize money ( which they tried to do in 1991 but were not allowed to reduce what they had already promised ) and used it instead to go into the appearance money pool , which will still have to be funded . |
| 5 | Pyne used it ruthlessly to pursue royalists , harass political opponents , and bully witnesses and minor officials . |
| 6 | John Wesley edited an abridged edition and used it widely to support his sermons . |
| 7 | Patois was a success for the group insofar as they used it succinctly to communicate rejection of authority . |
| 8 | And you 'd say , right , and you 'd go the , after the baby was born you , you 'd go back again to what we call the nur nursing , nursing up and you 'd want the bowl again for the baby and you 'd say wh where 's the bowl and they 'd say , oh well I think it 's downstairs , we used it yesterday to make a pudding in . |
| 9 | She used it initially to fan her face with . |
| 10 | I thought she was going to hit me : her hand which was already formed in a fist , went up — but she used it only to swipe at a cat scuttling from under a bush towards the door . |
| 11 | I found it best to suspend the tube containing the eggs as soon as the embryo could be seen inside . |
| 12 | As it turned out , parents found it best to ask Olwyn which one of the four rewards on the menu she preferred on any successful night . |
| 13 | It was the time of their lives when they found it hardest to make ends meet . |
| 14 | The other aspect is there are a large number of people a large number of these countries depend on their forest industries for producing foreign exchange which is particularly scant , a lot of the world , particularly Africa is suffering from debt problems , erm I worked in Uganda for 14 years and I found it really to get back there : the salary of a forest officer now is something , is worth in real terms something like 1 percent of what it was in 1962. erm His salary in 1962 was something in the region of six thousand a year in present terms , it 's now worth £60. erm He has to go out and get most of his livelihood from some other source , and Uganda 's an extreme case , but there are many other African countries where the position is similar . |
| 15 | I am not sure now if I ever proceeded to knock ; it is quite possible , given the alarming nature of what I heard , that I judged it best to withdraw altogether . |
| 16 | Robert wanted to go over to him , but judged it best to stay where he was . |
| 17 | Owen judged it best to make no reply . |
| 18 | So anyway , we booked it in to have it done Sunday . |
| 19 | Willie lifted it up to find Tom standing on the steps , with a large tray in his hands . |
| 20 | He brought the minion he had under his arm out , lifted it up to look into its blank face . |
| 21 | When they got near the large boxes , Christopher stood up inside the car and lifted it round to turn it . |
| 22 | Luke took her hand , but instead of shaking it lifted it to his mouth and turned it over to press his lips to the very centre of her palm , watching the shock that widened her grey eyes at the tingling contact . |
| 23 | He scrutinised the picture and then turned it over to study the postmark , or possibly , thought Lydia , to read the message . |
| 24 | He bent from his great height to take her right hand into his own large one , turned it over to look at the scars and callouses hard manual labour had inflicted on its once pink and white delicacy . |
| 25 | She reached out and took the bottle from his hand and turned it around to examine the label , while he simply looked at her in amazement . |
| 26 | I just turned it up to stop . |
| 27 | The man of the house told us that he had to repaint his boat every few weeks as the chemicals stripped it back to bare wood.And his wife complained of burns all up one arm from washing her clothes in contaminated water . |
| 28 | Mr Popple unravelled some toilet-paper and threw it down to cover up the spider as it was thrown against the ceramic sides of the bowl . |
| 29 | I felt around for a switch and threw it down to reveal a stone staircase with iron handrail . |
| 30 | Four Warrior armoured vehicles spent the night guarding the convoy and 12 more joined it today to help negotiate its safe progress through Croatian-held territory . |