Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest of the Mackintosh building is beautiful , the corridors twisting inside it like a folded castle in coloured stone , the light from the stained glass in the inch-thick doors … ’ |
| 2 | l he vehicles entered the western end of this northern bay , and the coach body was lifted off its bogies and placed on moving carriers , the wheels removed from the bogies , the bogies then also placed on carriers parallel with its body and moved alongside it through the shop at the same pace , that of one vehicle every forty minutes . |
| 3 | Alice put the telephone down carefully , and looked at herself in the small , oval mirror hanging above it on the wall . |
| 4 | He eyed the sword-point warily before peering past it to the body on the floor . |
| 5 | Or does he refuse to go near it for the rest of the session and become unsettled ? |
| 6 | In the village he had noticed an old crumbling building with the word ‘ SCHOOL ’ outside it , and he had seen children a little younger than himself disappear inside it in the mornings then reappear sometime in the afternoon . |
| 7 | The receptionist at the hotel had given him a key to the front door and his mind was a chaotic mixture of emotions and thoughts as he walked past it towards the shore . |
| 8 | In theory ( I have never seen this done ) you can also slap the incoming punch upwards and then go underneath it with a reverse punch . |
| 9 | It 's such a wonderful thing and gives out such heat that I spend quite a lot of my time sitting alongside it in the kitchen . |
| 10 | Of the Paternoster Square development , what he wanted to see , he said , was ‘ a roofscape that gives the impression that St Paul 's is floating above it like a great ship in the sea ’ . |
| 11 | I knew the first time was seldom ideal and I wanted to get past it to the second and third times , and all the times after that , when our love could go forward and mature and develop . |
| 12 | It was all sorted out after some confusion and a lot of ill-feeling ; the BMW people moved their boat forward so cars and trailers could get past it to the road . |
| 13 | Just let anyone come near it with a sprayer ! |
| 14 | The brown teapot with a slightly broken spout sat like a cold little sentinel on the hob , jackdaws rustled above it in the chimney . |