Example sentences of "it [vb past] [conj] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Armando Boetto , commanding officer of the 49 a Squadriglia , Blue 1 getting in the final burst before it disintegrated and fell into the sea . |
| 2 | It flickered and flew along the elding , and then burst into smoke , so thick and foul in the throat that I was fain to get on my knees behind a boulder , for the wind out of the cove sent it downhill … |
| 3 | The ferry was in ; it rose and fell on the swelling Grönsund . |
| 4 | Mrs Hollidaye 's voice was comforting as it rose and fell like the wind . |
| 5 | It accelerated and moved into the slow lane , as he passed . |
| 6 | There was a rough equality between them which pleased him since it ignored and slipped through the magical armour of those clothes , the possessions , the name , the title , the carriage and four , the weight of deference and the history of servility . |
| 7 | It came and sniffed around the edges , and gradually came all the way out . |
| 8 | But suddenly it turned and galloped at the house and to my horror it leapt gigantically up and straight at me with bared teeth . |
| 9 | It shone and danced in the darkness , and without it there would be nothing ; but one hand raised against it and it could lightly cease . |
| 10 | It was the last age when the railway station was an essential ingredient of every traveller 's itinerary : point of departure , point of arrival , point of contact en route with everyday life as it teemed and flowed outside the protective cocoon of the train . |
| 11 | She was shocked at the journalistic licence it exposed and appalled by the crime to which it referred . |
| 12 | Eventually , it tired and came to the pan . |
| 13 | ‘ Zissick , zissick , ’ it called and darted across the shingle after winged insects at the water 's edge . |
| 14 | It bounced a few yards ahead of the Hussars ' advance , then slammed into a wood where it tore and crashed through the thickly leaved branches . |
| 15 | It spun and shivered on the air , and the threads and the filaments began to descend on the Court , covering them with the strong powerful magic . |
| 16 | It dipped and fluttered in the chilly air , its wings drab and flaky . |
| 17 | Something moved on the farther side of the lochan , something hulky and dirty white , caught in the bog myrtle , where it shifted and billowed in the breeze . |
| 18 | Without discrimination they illuminated the sombre , monolithic blocks of the old city and the arrogant , hectic jumble of the new , observing without comment how it sprawled and spilled beyond the circumference of the dismantled dome . |