Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She put out a hand and touched the prostrate woman — and drew it away in distress . |
| 2 | While the older families derived their wealth from trade , the newer ones drew it more from investment in property , after coming to prominence initially through service to the Crown , as controllers of customs or victuallers for armies , or by serving as town clerk . |
| 3 | Mimms went for a cross he was never going to reach , Jason Dozzell helped it on to Kiwomya , and the in-form striker calmly lobbed home the winner past the despairing lunge of Nicky Marker . |
| 4 | And I had to my satisfaction traced it back to Jules and Boris [ Yul 's grandfather and father , both of whom deserted their families ] . ’ |
| 5 | Marie and I agreed that she would train the chicks at La Trobe , using exactly the protocol that she herself had modified from Cherkin , which is essentially how we still do it even today , as I described it back in Chapter 2 . |
| 6 | If he found that the archbishop disliked a nomination , he coolly referred it back to Downing Street . |
| 7 | and what they did , and you were there , and you must 've been listening , what they did , percent for people , they moved it up to Policy and Resources , Policy and Resources percent for people came around , Councillor spoke . |
| 8 | For a time it was held at Bologna , in the papal states , but the imperial representatives protested and the pope moved it back to Trent . |
| 9 | For the last hour or so Lewis ground it out with Smith , the Notts man restrained to the tune of eight runs in 19 overs , Smith reaching a 101-ball fifty . |
| 10 | ‘ I reported it twice to Kilburn police station in London and the Salvation Army but I never saw her again . |
| 11 | My nose had long since lost all feeling and I massaged it back into life . |
| 12 | ‘ Ever since I was a little boy it was my dream to have a tree house , ’ says Mark , 40 , who built it out of materials from his timber yard business . |
| 13 | What did they do built it out of concrete or sand ? |
| 14 | The secret says Asahi Glass , is to built it out of ceramics . |
| 15 | She had £50 in her purse when she and Horatia took ship to Calais where she brazened it out until January 1815 when she died — not in disgrace but hardly gracefully . |
| 16 | I think you mentioned it once about taxi driving |
| 17 | This is now widely accepted , but Mr.X , strangely , never pursued it further with reference to the anatomy of the individual golfer . |
| 18 | Ellwood pursed his lips round a bean and sucked it in like spaghetti , then touched his mouth and hands with his napkin before taking a sip from a full glass of red wine . |
| 19 | When I tried it on in Harvey Nichols it looked all right , but now I see it out here I realize how stupid and childish it looks . ’ |
| 20 | I tried it out on Kenneth , who talks like Prince Charles , and he was quite impressed . |
| 21 | I mean I tried it out at work I show you the this is what they used at work . |
| 22 | We found it over at Scano 's . |
| 23 | A council inspector was called in to test the beer at the club in Bury St Edmunds , Suffolk … and found it up to strength . |
| 24 | Y-you … ’ she spluttered , and , loving him , found it absolutely beyond belief that he should believe that she and his cousin had just been having a fine old time . |
| 25 | With the placing valuing the company at £153m , anyone who had invested £100 found it suddenly worth £4,000 . |
| 26 | Florey continued his interest in lysozyme and furthered it both by collaboration with the professor of organic chemistry , Sir Robert Robinson ( 1886–1975 ) and by recruiting an enthusiastic and skilful biochemist E. B. ( later Sir Ernst ) Chain ( 1906–1979 ) . |
| 27 | In a section entitled ‘ The British decline ’ he criticises the construction of essentially five prototype AGRs , the industrial arrangement of five , later three and now one construction consortia , and the abortive reassessment of reactor choice in 1972 where protagonists of the steam generating heavy water compared it favourably with AGRs and PWRs . |
| 28 | Satisfied that it was , he slammed it back into place and holstered the weapon , sticking his own pistol in the belt of his trousers . |
| 29 | ‘ Yeah , on Master Of Puppets we dropped it down to D and live we took it down to C sharp . |
| 30 | So I hired it out to people and work night and day when the weather was bonny , combining their barley and that . |