Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adv] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We termed it thus because the depression arose from role performance and not from their psychopathology . |
| 2 | Holly bent to the floor , picked up the knife , admired the workmanship of the weapon , reversed it so that the string whipped handle was towards the man , passed it back to him . |
| 3 | That she achieved it just when the company was set for major expansion , was an accident of timing that Bernard was determined to exploit to the full . |
| 4 | He took the crank-handle , inserted it in the hole at the bottom of the radiator and , encouraged by a chorus of ‘ One , two , three , heave ! ’ , swung it energetically until the engine sprang to life . |
| 5 | ‘ King Robert never rebuilt it fully after the English wrecked it and he went to Lochmaben and Turnberry . |
| 6 | The power of the Establishment came not from the fact that a few dozen people imposed their will on the rest of us , but from the fact that for a long time we felt it right that the opinions of such people should have respectful attention paid to them . |
| 7 | All three thought it right that the fight continued in the eleventh round when McDonnell 's right eye was all but closed , though the fighter admitted he could not see from that eye . |
| 8 | As there is every advantage to a team cheating , I thought it right that the sporting authorities had stomped on McLaren for an avoidable mistake , and I retain that view . |
| 9 | I told my mother that as Thomas would be in strange surroundings and might wake in the night I thought it better if the two of you shared a room . |
| 10 | I found my penknife and kept it close as the shadow of a vulture wheeled over the tent . |
| 11 | Corbett devoured it hungrily while the gaoler watched impassively but , when Corbett tried to ask him a question , slapped him in the mouth , grabbed the bowl and waddled out of the cell . |
| 12 | If on the other hand if they got it genuinely after the policy was enforced , that 's the risk that we take . |
| 13 | He did it automatically when the girl attacked the man who 'd been fighting with her father , recognizing it as a natural reaction to shock and grief . |
| 14 | But I did it deliberately because the |
| 15 | Germans did more of this work and did it better than the British . |
| 16 | He did it twice before the bottle broke . |
| 17 | I think the best in England gave it away and the lines in the grass . |
| 18 | A red carpet was laid out on the runway by soldiers — they only just had it straight when the official parties arrived . |
| 19 | Apart from anything else , this project is worth a great deal financially and I 'd be a fool to myself if I forfeited it just because the client is an obnoxious , egotistical swine . |
| 20 | One theory I came up with was that the down beat of its wings pushed it upwards and the up beat pushed it downwards and the two cancelled each other out so that the kestrel stayed where it was . |
| 21 | He pushed it away but the more he pushed the more it stuck to him . |
| 22 | One theory I came up with was that the down beat of its wings pushed it upwards and the up beat pushed it downwards and the two cancelled each other out so that the kestrel stayed where it was . |
| 23 | Part of her embraced it gratefully whilst the other , the sad , secret part , rejected and resented it , all the while clinging blindly to what had been . |