Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That sketch was written by Harold Pinter and he played it straight the way Pinter wrote it , with the nuances that Pinter intended , the pauses in the right place . |
| 2 | And he goes to me , he goes to me so have you thought about my , my suggestion of pottery , I went yeah , and I threw it out the window . |
| 3 | And it hu go And it was there and it was left all night , and next day erm the man came back again and he cut it down the back with a big saw , and divided it up and then it was taken to the house where it was er up and then salted in a big barrel . |
| 4 | Jean felt belittled ; for as long as the dance lasted she seemed no more to him than any girl there , but then he came round to her again and clasped her closely as they stepped it down the aisle between the lines of dancers . |
| 5 | Shales picked up one of the newspapers in front of him and pitched it down the table in Dowd 's direction . |
| 6 | Carefully took it off me and washed it himself cos last time I lost it down the plughole you know ? |
| 7 | The flying hairdryer hit him just above the eye , flex trailing like the tail of a kite , and as he swatted it away the plug whipped around and smacked into his teeth . |
| 8 | Handlers guided it down the ramp with ropes and then let it wander away rather unsteadily . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | People who were doing nothing in particular took up the cry and chanted it down the block , like priests in some strange pagan mass : |
| 11 | When she brought it down the hospital she said here you are nan er mum she said , nan she said it 's a present for you she said , so we did laugh . |
| 12 | Er took it up the field and took to the school then we got at it and it and bath full of feathers . |
| 13 | I took it down the jeweller 's , nine hundred and forty five pounds . |
| 14 | She said oh could have took it down the launderette and dried for you . |
| 15 | thought right , spanner took it out the starter motor |
| 16 | It bore the address of the garage also , and he relayed it down the phone to Sam . |
| 17 | Dropped a tile and it pierced it right the way through . |
| 18 | The corpse 's bracelet was beginning to squeal ; Fox dragged it off and flung it down the stairwell ; she did n't hear it land . |
| 19 | He flicked something on the gun and stuffed it down the back of his cords , then held a hand out to me . |
| 20 | Riven 's slung arm hampered him , and he pulled the sling off irritably and stuffed it down the front of his jerkin , moving his arm in circles . |
| 21 | Sally took the strip of paper and stuffed it down the front of her skirt . |
| 22 | The vitriol , talent and critical edge of NME made it indisputably the thinking kid 's po paper , especially after its nearest rival Sounds nailed its colours to the laddishness mast in the shape of Oi ! and New Wave Of British Heavy Metal . |
| 23 | A previous user of the review machine had tried to send some faxes which never made it down the wire . |
| 24 | Sometime after , pleasantly exhausted , I collected my horse from the stable , saddled it and led it down the causeway out of the manor gate . |
| 25 | And then I chucked it out the window . |
| 26 | I chucked it out the window and it landed on the ledge . |
| 27 | and then he got it up the back that far |
| 28 | I got it twice the size , though . |
| 29 | Yeah , well when I got it out the car but , just wash that down |
| 30 | Well you just got it out the cupboard did n't you ? |