Example sentences of "[prep] it [vb past] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A couple of weeks later , just as most of the officers and men of the Allied Screening Commission in Verona were preparing to go off for the weekend to the country , an enormous , chauffeur-driven Fiat motor car with a flag on the front of it rolled up in the drive . |
| 2 | The amber liquid shook in the glass and some of it spilled on to the tan cloth of her Burberry . |
| 3 | Some of it spilled inadvertently on the nearest congregation , particularly Carmella and Joey . |
| 4 | Research has markedly redressed the unfounded and ill-wishing treatment of it dished out by the zealots seeking to bring about the hardened approach to poverty eventually enacted in the harsh workhouse-based act of 1834 . |
| 5 | Advertising revenue would certainly help , or would boost profits , but much of it went simply on the paper and production costs of printing the advertisements . |
| 6 | The first intimation of it came out of the blue , but I can not ignore the fact that she has persisted in it . |
| 7 | At Fenella 's side , Caspar said softly , ‘ They are unable to stand , poor things , ’ and Fenella felt the pity of it hit hard at the base of her throat . |
| 8 | This , called the Thulean Province , covered much of what we now call the north Atlantic Ocean , but over thousands of years , much of it sank again beneath the waters . |
| 9 | Down below , a car with a flashing blue light on top of it pulled away from the excitement around the train , crossed the main road and headed slowly up the lane . |
| 10 | Miranda cut her toast with such force that a corner of it flew on to the floor . |
| 11 | He was full of all the gossip and rumours , most of it picked up from the ships he visited and seamen he talked to . |
| 12 | And out you 'll go , take it from me , especially after the fiasco you made of the press conference and the results of it spread all over the papers this morning ! ’ |
| 13 | yeah , but that in which case I think you should try and tie the story in with it became in like the canteen |
| 14 | To begin with it came exclusively in the form of pebbles and boulders from the Kachin hills of north Burma . |
| 15 | The smell of the barbecue was at its most tempting , and the smoke from it writhed upwards towards the villa where Rosie and Francisco were . |
| 16 | Her body without it walked away towards the house , staggering from side to side , blood flowing from the stump that had been her neck . |
| 17 | Backing for it increased further after the accident at the Three Mile Island reactor in the United states in March that year . |
| 18 | Anyway , it has a spacious and homely feeling about it left over from the bad days of British Imperialism , and this is epitomised in my bathroom , which has an enormous ( though now cracked ) Shanks sink , made in Scotland ! |