Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pron] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the event , it got nothing of the kind . |
| 2 | But it got him in the end . |
| 3 | The Virgin bent her head to the dove in pictures of the Annunciation , and it pierced her through the ear , bringing her the Word that was life itself , down into her womb ; that was what Rosa wanted , Tommaso 's mouth next to her ear , until she , like the woman with her lover in the doorway , would wriggle and gasp . |
| 4 | She 'd loved the stones it smoothed , and its wildness when it flung itself over the promenade wall , scattering gravel and driftwood . |
| 5 | Here is a passage of Thoreau which both demonstrates the creative process and also shows that it led him to the peak experience which he termed being charmed . |
| 6 | And it produced nothing like the furore that the almost contemporary list of ‘ Great British Novelists ’ did . |
| 7 | I saw again the one that escaped the Grounds and died just before it made it to the stream . |
| 8 | Certainly , it regarded itself as the leader of the Six : the British proposal would weaken that position . |
| 9 | Yanto Gates broke through the blackthorn hedge which separated the Severn bank from the adjacent Berkeley to Gloucester canal towpath , and surveyed the scene before him He loved this river , but tonight , bathed in this unusually bright moonlight , it moved him to the point of goose pimples . |
| 10 | It caught her on the elbow of her right arm and sliced right through the botched teflon sutures that held the forearm below it in place . |
| 11 | His beloved father , Jack , had no especial love for cricket , although later on young John would delight in a recollection that when cricket began to seek better playing surfaces it found them in the graveyards . |
| 12 | This was built for United Air Lines as DC-3A-197B NC 18942 in April 1948 and served with series of US operators until it found itself in the Sudan ( as N8044 ) in 1976 , before going to South Africa and joining Caprivi Airways in 1978 as ZS-KEX . |
| 13 | It found itself amongst the stockwork of veins and rich ore was being found continually . |
| 14 | That gesture was so unexpected and beautiful that it remained in Agnes 's memory like the imprint of a lightning bolt ; it invited her into the depths of space and time and awakened in the sixteen-year-old girl a vague and immense longing . |
| 15 | At one time I had this scrubbing brush and I used to spend the whole day scrubbing and I used to have a big pan and I used to boil my clothes up in it — it drove me round the bend … |
| 16 | Subtitled Diana Unclothed , it compared her to the Lady of Shallott , Greta Garbo , Sleeping Beauty and Mother Theresa . |
| 17 | And after several attempts to break the shell open by picking it up and dropping it onto the rocks , well that did n't work , so the bird picked it up and then from a about a height of twenty feet it dropped it onto the rocks below . |
| 18 | So it would start the timing mechanism running at the moment it dropped it over the side . |
| 19 | It unravelled itself across the page . |
| 20 | the goal of the week … has to be the United winner against Stoke … it lifted them off the bottom of the table … |
| 21 | We all do things together and it lifted us for the game on Saturday . |
| 22 | Founded 1259 , open to visitors during daylight hours , it proclaimed itself with the modesty of an institution whose confidence in its purposes was rock-solid . |
| 23 | Jordan had turned to Saudi Arabia for its oil supplies when it committed itself to the UN embargo on trade with Iraq and Kuwait [ see p. 37639 ] . |
| 24 | It detached itself from the thicket and reached rose-thorn fingers into the hard earth . |
| 25 | It joined me for the rest of the holiday , much to the annoyance of my fellow passengers . |
| 26 | ‘ It hauled me to the ground with a thump and started mauling me on the back and neck . ’ |
| 27 | It showed itself at the turn of the century in a rash of gang fights , stabbings and street robberies , and in some parts of London there were excited rumours of youthful gangs armed with guns . |
| 28 | I smiled a smile that was meant to signify interest in this excursion , but Carla was far too intelligent to believe it showed anything of the sort . |
| 29 | ‘ My father says that you 're an architect , ’ she volunteered , determined to be pleasant even if it killed her in the process . |
| 30 | She would stay out here until evening , if it killed her in the process . |