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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Dropped a tile and it pierced it right the way through . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I got it twice the size , though . |
| 6 | It 's the way she said it Especially the smile like that . |
| 7 | As they tugged it straight the wind bellied it out , taut as a sail . |