Example sentences of "[adv prt] [subord] it [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tighten the wheel down until it touches the pipe |
| 2 | Suddenly , it growled at her , bent its great shaggy head , picked up the carcass in bloody jaws and padded away to settle on the grass , paws holding the meat down while it tore the flesh with its teeth . |
| 3 | The train slowed down as it reached the next station and the Punk stood up and came down the aisle towards them . |
| 4 | It will still bob up and down as it hits the successive wavefronts . |
| 5 | It seems that a butterfly simply automatically backs down when it meets an owner . |
| 6 | But the Escort did n't stop , it came on until it blocked the road completely and before I could react , my door had been pulled open and a warrant card thrust in my face . |
| 7 | Butt up a whole panel against the skirting and mark off where it overlaps the last fixed panels . |
| 8 | First its propeller blade broke off after it hit a rock , then it got caught in currents so strong it could n't move in a straight line . |
| 9 | Despite the restyling , underneath the RV8 is still an MGB ; the car the company killed off when it closed the MG factory at Abingdon 11 years ago . |
| 10 | You let the temperature come up until it reaches the boiling point |
| 11 | Anglo-Welsh was a relatively new consortium of previously independent regional breweries put together during the later 1970s by a shrewd and aggressive operator named K. Midas , who made no secret of his ambition to build it up until it rivalled the major national breweries . |
| 12 | It was an ever increasing thing that blew up because it got a little too big , but it did make David a star and he has dealt with it really well , and is a man who does wonderful work . |
| 13 | ‘ He says the whole army is unsettled because it 's known that Famagusta will never give up while it expects a relieving ship to arrive . |
| 14 | It rained in the sky , in long streaky sheets , but the rain dried up before it reached the ground . |
| 15 | From point-blank range the first bullet hit him in the stomach , doubling him up as it punched a hole just to the left of his navel , ploughing through intestines before lodging close to his spine . |
| 16 | One can only speculate that the GMC took the easy option and avoided testing the issue of clinical ecology head on because it feared a lengthy presentation of evidence on both sides , with the risk of an inconclusive result . |
| 17 | But her Pakistan people 's party must wait until tomorrow to find out if it has the power that comes with control of the key state of Punjab . |
| 18 | Then a green light would stab through the gloom and he 'd be roaring down the narrow concrete strip , faster and faster , holding Sugar back until it seemed the boundary fence was hurtling to meet them . |
| 19 | … imagine a fairy chain stretched from mountain peak to mountain peak , as far as the eye could reach , and paid out until it touched the ‘ high places ’ of the earth at a number of ridges , banks , and knowls . |
| 20 | Sitting there they could see the whole world spread out until it reached the sky , and whatever there was all the world over was with them in Galleons Lap . |
| 21 | It 's a sort of triangle , spreading further and further out till it reaches the sides of the river . |
| 22 | The Royal Bank of Scotland said it had pulled out because it saw no continuing need for its participation . |
| 23 | Luckily they were near the B-H-S store and put the fire out before it had a chance to catch hold . |
| 24 | I possess a letter from one of his crew who was the last to leave the stricken Halifax whilst his Commanding Officer struggled to keep the aircraft " airborne , losing height rapidly and beseeching all the crew to get out before it struck the ground . |
| 25 | Sound entering the tube from the side cancels out before it reaches the sensor because waves arriving through different holes are out of phase . |
| 26 | Our retina is sensitive to ultraviolet radiation , but the eye filters it out before it reaches the light detectors , so we miss out on much of the visual information available to other animals . |
| 27 | He stood off from the left-hand window and kicked the big bottom pane , pulling his foot back before it interrupted the fall of glass , then kicked again to clear the residue . |
| 28 | Yet the ‘ S ’ is more than capable of flying , kicking out as it does an impressive 145bhp . |
| 29 | The track wound past one last stand of trees , then petered out as it reached a wide , open space at the top of the hill . |
| 30 | He released a catch , springing open the bonnet , and twisted a metal cap , stepping back as it made a loud hissing sound . |