Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout his life Eliot brought the anguish of his difficult and divided nature to the surface of his poetry , just as in oblique form he analysed it in his prose . |
| 2 | She took off her shoe and put it on the table and modified it with her two index fingers . |
| 3 | Kragan moved his hand over the butt of his revolver and loosened it in its holster . |
| 4 | Under the umbrella they had to walk very close together and after a while he took her hand and hooked it through his arm . |
| 5 | If you drew it on your graph it would be quite steep and it would look as if you were going up ten centimetres for every centimetre you went along which is almost vertical . |
| 6 | ‘ But in May 1945 I did not know that they would be killed and I did not know until Count Tolstoy drew it to my attention in 1979 , 1980 and 1985 . |
| 7 | I had the opportunity to study the document because my hon. Friend drew it to my attention as we came into the Chamber . |
| 8 | I had a close look at that table , obviously a matter of some interest and that 's the reason I return to this , as I read the table , there is a very substantial amount of double counting within it , for this reason , that all outstanding er planning permissions are included once , and there are then separate categories of allowance for all types of sites , namely large windfalls , conversions , small sites , and allocated sites , those are all put in , er or most of them are put in at thirteen years worth , that being the remainder of the plan period to two thousand and six , it will not have escaped you that if you include thirteen years worth all the existing commissions are part of that thirteen years , and so simplest approach to correct that table would simply to discount the outstanding commitments , because they 're all counted again as part of the thirteen years , I do have a secondary point that the allowance for conversions is very much higher than what seems to be happening , and in what is in the tables that er Mr Thomas drew it to your attention from the York City er appendix eight , so that er on on two counts , but mainly the double counting one there is a great deal of er erm optimism , if I can call it that , in that table . |
| 9 | It clutched his tightly , and he drew it to his lips . |
| 10 | She took one of his hands and drew it towards her breast . |
| 11 | Nick looked bored but he licked his forefinger and drew it across his throat . |
| 12 | He took her hand , drew it across his body to the hardness of his sex . |
| 13 | She took her frilly cap out of the locker and skewered it to her hair with the pins , adjusting it until she was satisfied that it was absolutely correct . |
| 14 | The clothier who wrote in 1760 that high wages made his workfolk " scarce , saucy and bad " was seeking to impress no one , for he entered it in his private diary . |
| 15 | The band 's chief songwriters Calum and Rory Macdonald described it as their most outstanding to date . |
| 16 | An amusing parallel in the film business is an account given by the director Ken Russell of how he sold the idea of making a film about Tchaikowsky ; he described it to his potential backers as the story of a homosexual who fell in love with a nymphomaniac . |
| 17 | But the fight did not prevent the fundamental beliefs in the nation and ‘ the historic integrity of the island of Ireland ’ , as nationalist parties described it in their New Ireland Forum ( 1983 — 4 : i. 28 ) , from remaining basic to the perceptions of both parties . |
| 18 | As Patrick Buchanan , a pugnacious supporter of both North and the contras , described it in his autobiography , the world divided neatly in those years into ‘ us ’ and ‘ them ’ . |
| 19 | She raised her hand and stroked his face , and he caught it with his own , turning it over so that it was palm up , and kissing it . |
| 20 | Ralph Brand sent a looping header towards goal , and though the Scotland Under-21 goalkeeper caught it above his head , he stepped back one pace and over the line . |
| 21 | They caught it in their onrush . |
| 22 | ‘ It did not catch my foot , for I was already wheeling away , but it crashed down on my wing and caught it in its grip . |
| 23 | He must he must erm stooped down on his knees and caught it in his mouth and and got it into his pocket some way or another . |
| 24 | If it occurred to Ruth — and how could it possibly occur to Mrs Peterson — that there might be a good reason for this , she dismissed it from her mind at once . |
| 25 | The defendant may however have considered the possibility that the victim did not understand the nature of the act but have negligently ( given his own capacities ) dismissed it from his mind , although the risk was an obvious one . |
| 26 | She put her hand on the older woman 's shoulder and Aunt Margaret blindly grasped it with her own bird-claw . |
| 27 | Getting no response , she took his hand and moved it towards her bare dimpled knees . |
| 28 | He owned the nearby garage so the highways authority handed it over and he moved it onto his land |
| 29 | He moved it to his palace in Pavia , where in 1420 it was recorded as being in the ducal library . |
| 30 | Reached into her mouth with his tongue and moved it across her uneven teeth . |