Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] [vb past] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | She also had strong opinions and found it hard to " brook any delay or frustration . |
| 2 | He said it 's not an offence he said if you 've broke down , you ca n't help , he said but you 've got ta really move it so I went round to Paul and there was about seven or eight blokes that pushed it all the way round to Bernie 's . |
| 3 | It was as if two palms had been placed against the frail skin and forced it upwards so that he saw with a shock of premonitory recognition the shine of the skull beneath the skin . |
| 4 | And while such mundane things as fluctating interest rates and ever-increasing gas , electricity , water bills remain on the scene , it 's a strong possibility that ‘ wider and deeper ownership ’ will be hampered by thevery economic policies that spawned it . |
| 5 | The proximity of Tribschen to Basle obviously made contact easier , but it was undoubtedly Nietzsche 's new professional eminence that made it particularly welcome to Wagner and led to a rapid development of the relationship between the two . |
| 6 | Coun Richmond then called on the Tory group to support the Labour measure but claimed it would never have been proposed without the prompt of his motion . |
| 7 | ‘ It was that advert that did it , I think . |
| 8 | One of them reached over to search out the right tape and handed it to his Sheikh . |
| 9 | He shrugged the shirt from his broad shoulders and threw it casually on to a chair . |
| 10 | That evening , while the rest of the family watched Dixon of Dock Green , I gathered together the total ensemble and placed it upon my person . |
| 11 | And it 's earning the chocolate-coloured Labrador that wrote it a worldwide reputation . |
| 12 | Mr Popple unravelled some toilet-paper and threw it down to cover up the spider as it was thrown against the ceramic sides of the bowl . |
| 13 | She pushed him into a seat on the stone beside the fire , and brushed the moisture from his hair , taking care not to be too gentle about it ; and when he made no move to stop her she unfastened his damp cloak and hung it to dry . |
| 14 | Michael felt sick suddenly , the choking kind that made it difficult to swallow . |
| 15 | She opened another chart and handed it to him . |
| 16 | Here was a person who took a faculty in another university and turned it into the most famous faculty in the land . |
| 17 | I pulled out some money and laid it on the bar , followed by a pair of black leather driving gloves with the tops of the three middle fingers cut off the right hand , a tube of mint-flavoured lip salve and a metal hip-flask engraved with the words : ‘ I am not a diabetic ; in case of accidents please rush me to the nearest public house . ’ |
| 18 | I took out some money and gave it to him . |
| 19 | They proved much easier to collect than direct taxes and made it possible for government revenue to keep pace with the swift rise in production . |
| 20 | ‘ Christopher got this money and spent it on a holiday skiing . |
| 21 | She dragged off another blanket and pushed it around his legs . |
| 22 | He then took the rope through her front and back legs and tied it firmly to the back bumper of the Mercedes , which Angel had backed into the yard . |
| 23 | and I went in shop I said a sack of dog food I said German Shepherd and got it home and I thought this looks different , it were ginormous chunk things in it and he were going ptew , ptew and they were all over garden |
| 24 | The bewitchment , if any , had evaporated as soon as those black eyes had extinguished that first interested glance and substituted it for one of rampant dislike . |
| 25 | Gedge joked to music writers that he had accidentally played the original Orange Juice song at the wrong speed and thought it sounded great . |
| 26 | Whereas previously each local authority had access to its own business rate revenue , now the central government collected all this revenue and redistributed it to local authorities in proportion to the local population . |
| 27 | The nurse came to the bed to fix it and as she bent her head down the woman threw her left hand round the warm brown neck and pulled it to her . |
| 28 | It 's like I took a completed album of all kinds of different songs and threw it up in the air and it came crashing down . |
| 29 | Although everyone was a bit wary of an undeserved Soton equaliser , Beeney mopped up any semblance of an attack , and after good work by Strachan in not letting Benali shepherd the ball out for a goal kick , he dispossessed him , took it past another defender and played it across the goal for Speed to slot it into the bottom left corner . |
| 30 | On impulse he felt in his pocket for a tenpenny piece and dropped it in the box . |