Example sentences of "it [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The early light was damp and fresh as the clay when she slipped the wedding band from her finger , putting it carefillly on the shelf , where it could not be lost . |
| 2 | A glance at the latest list published in Fortune magazine shows it to be not just silly but ludicrous : the list purports to show only US industrial companies — but it classifies AT&T Co as a service company and eliminates it altogether despite the fact that with NCR Corp added in , AT&T 's non-service businesses alone would give the firm a ranking in the 50s . |
| 3 | In common with most papers of the time , the NME was only very cautiously supportive of this new teenage music , seeing in it little of the virtues of musicianship , family entertainment , versatility and maturity . |
| 4 | During the night I cut firewood for them , and added it secretly to the wood which the young man had cut during the day . |
| 5 | Perhaps it was her own pride reawakening after all these weeks which prompted her to defy Luke 's distaste , albeit only after she was sure he was asleep , moving up close to his back again , lifting an arm and curving it loosely over the side of his body . |
| 6 | She slid her arms into her silk robe and tied it loosely at the waist . |
| 7 | Gravity is so strong that space is bent round onto itself , making it rather like the surface of the earth . |
| 8 | ‘ D' you know , Jessica , it 's impossible to do it badly on the coast of Ireland . |
| 9 | With that dulled little blade in his right hand , he began drawing it slowly across the inside of his left wrist . |
| 10 | The slow fuse uncoiled like a snake , the assassin pulling it slowly across the floor until the end appeared under the door . |
| 11 | The hunchback takes the chair and begins to push it slowly across the grass . |
| 12 | The machine had begun , and three horses pulled it slowly along the field . |
| 13 | He took up a cloth by the side of the cash register and started to move it slowly over the surface , looking up just once as I left the shop , saying , ‘ Goodbye , then . ’ |
| 14 | It can only be dried out by diffusing it slowly through the tube walls . |
| 15 | The wooden fingers of his false left hand were bent and damaged and he turned it slowly under the light . |
| 16 | Slowly curl the barbell to shoulder height , and then lower it slowly to the starting position . |
| 17 | Oliver coiled it slowly in the palm of his hand . |
| 18 | She toyed with it with her fork , pushing it slowly around the plate , swirling it into patterns . |
| 19 | Does n't look a brilliant day does it weatherwise at the races clouds . |
| 20 | right , tie it off in a reef knot , if you 've got bits that are left dangling they 're too long and you ca n't go round again because it 's gon na make it too tight , you can either tuck them in or else you can fold them down , a nice clean plaster and put it right over the top , okay ? |
| 21 | yeah , I could n't believe it I mean you go back five years he 'd never done things like that , he erm , missed the most easiest reds and left it right over the pocket and then Stephen Hendry went on and cleared up the whole frame , got a break of over a hundred |
| 22 | It looks like they 're going to announce it by stealth , one pit at a time and take it right through the review procedure at three month stages . |
| 23 | Why did they put it right down the bottom ? |
| 24 | I had built him up to play it right to the heart of the green but he played it like a nervous three handicapper . |
| 25 | Do not spread it right to the edge or it will ooze out . |
| 26 | You 'd spend one hour boning all his big bones they he 'd already took the joints off and your job was to bone it right to the bone , which he sold separately , and today you would call minced beef . |
| 27 | The suspect temperament of the volatile Ivanisevic had cast a huge question mark over his ability to make it right to the No. 1 spot and to dominate the Grand Slams . |
| 28 | Someone drove it right to the door and charged me nothing . |
| 29 | She left it right to the end of the evening . |
| 30 | The way to deal with the international support system at the moment is to reduce it right across the board — for all support systems to be reduced at a speed which farmers can bear and which bears on different types of farmers equally , both within the Community and as between the Community and our competitors in the United States . |