Example sentences of "[adv prt] [pos pn] [noun sg] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 His mouth crushed and coaxed in turns , his tongue subtle and importunate , before he moved lower , sliding his mouth down her throat until it reached her breasts .
2 The injury is half way down his off-fore and it looks as though he will be out for the rest of the season .
3 It presupposes that either this government has all the authority it claims over its population or it has none .
4 I am sick of people arguing over their colour because it affects so many children and they have to suffer the consequences .
5 Mary fell off her horse when it bucked .
6 He attacked one Ju87 from behind , breaking away as the tail broke off his victim and it crashed into the sea .
7 It was better this way ; somehow she would manage to see Dana before Roman did , and then she would leave and take up her life as it had been before she had met Roman almost a week ago .
8 oh , she could n't make up her mind and it come out squircles
9 Outside a car revved up its engine as it changed up a gear only to screech to a halt at the corner and roar off again .
10 Layfield ( 1976 ) criticised this confusion and said that the centre must make up its mind whether it wanted to adopt a centralist or localist view .
11 And it has to make up its mind where it stands in the matter of the European Community .
12 How can an electorate be expected to make up its mind until it has seen all the smears ?
13 It would also give time for Rune to inveigle her into taking up their affair where it had left off .
14 The Captain picked up his telephone before it had time to ring .
15 He screwed up his face so it seemed to hide behind his huge nose .
16 Searing , excruciating agony ripped through his hand and up his arm until it seemed to engulf his entire body .
17 I dug a comb out of my bag and adjusted the driving mirror so I could sort out my hair before it dried frizzy .
18 When he thought of India in later years he would always see these two men and two bullocks and the leather bag flooding out its water as it settled on the ground .
19 She had taken off the ribbon that kept back her hair and it hung about her shoulders , much longer than Seb had realised .
20 She pushed back her hair where it had slipped from the bandanna , then tried to shrug off the tension with a sigh .
21 Shaw said : ‘ It 's difficult to work out his programme but it seems that he analysed his subjects and classified their attributes , their doings , and the major events in their lives by coded numbers .
22 I thought of the corruption of the North American Indians ' dress and the sullen dejection Robert Louis Stevenson had observed in the ragged groups of defeated Indians which gathered around his train as it moved through the Great Plains .
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