Example sentences of "[vb past] it [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 I moved it a little way away .
2 okay Right you mentioned it a few minutes ago you suggested that this thing was formed .
3 I weighed it a few minutes later and was delighted , to say the least , when it pulled the needle round to 10lb 3oz .
4 When police found it a few minutes later they looked inside expecting to find the baby but the back seat was empty .
5 While Sergeant Bird was in the lecture hall , Montgomery walked over to one of the other statuettes and lifted it a few inches .
6 A man with dark hair and thick eyebrows opened it a few inches .
7 One of Alejandro 's sons playing back rode him off for the backhand and hit it up the field to his brother who dribbled it a few yards , then sliced it to Perdita .
8 Below it flows the Dorn , known to the Saxons as the Milk , from the cloudiness of its water after rain : and one still sees it as the Saxons saw it a thousand years ago , as I saw it a few minutes ago in the thin rain drifting down from the Cotswolds .
9 And we saw it a few times did n't we ?
10 No , you do n't : for the simple reason that I suppressed it a few pages ago .
11 So I thought it no less than my duty to book us into somewhere special on the west coast for a week .
12 Cadfael felt it , but thought it no more than the tension of the sortes .
13 And I kept it the same and that 's When we bought this in nineteen fifty four , there was a lot of alterations to be done .
14 He took it a few feet out , so now he was on the edge of the 18 yard box … near the corner ( so approx 25 yards from goal ) , he pulled it back the other way , turned and curled the ball into the top left corner with his left foot .
15 Surely the Minister feels some embarrassment about the fact that a former Minister at his Department bought a Guyanese asset for £9.7 million and sold it a few months later for £62 million worth of shares ?
16 He bought it a few days ago .
17 I bought it a few months ago and I was assured they were waterproof . ’
18 They also did it a few years ago with their then hottest act , Alexander O'Neal .
19 Reliability is much to , much more to do with replicability , it 's , it 's another if another researcher went in and did it the same way , would they get the same results ?
20 He gave it a few pumps and collected an armful of logs for the stove before going in through the back door .
21 She gently eased it off his lap , gave it a few licks and pushed it over to me for first bite .
22 All Connor did was to add a preservative to this enzyme that gave it a few months ' shelf life .
23 He gave it a few more seconds to get him through the next traffic signals and then killed it again .
24 He gave it a few more minutes .
25 I thought , I mean I , the fire people gave it the all clear .
26 Playing the tape , I paused it every few seconds to translate .
27 Sandy and Dave had it the same .
28 People walked round it , a pram wheel caught it and dragged it a little way .
29 He closed it a few months after Maxwell 's paper folded — with a circulation of only about 100,000 .
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