Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He drew it out where it rested on his palm . |
| 2 | A silver cup whizzed an inch wide of her father 's ear ; her eldest brother caught it just before it sailed out of an arrow-slit window . |
| 3 | I tried it on and it fitted well enough . |
| 4 | yeah , the , that 's the awful part I tried one of them with a big bit here and I tried it on and it looked like a tit on a pimple , I said god what am I gon na do ? |
| 5 | At last , wonder of wonders it was finished for the second time , I tried it on and it drowned me . |
| 6 | Furious , Wilson went down into the freezing kitchen , where the well banked-up fire had not quite died down , and poked it vigorously until it began to burn up . |
| 7 | Smiling , he ran a finger quickly down the curve of Caroline 's hip , then danced it around until it rested lightly against her thigh , just at the start of the slit that ran the length of the gown . |
| 8 | Leaning forward , he took her hand , smiling , and turned it so that it lay , the back upwards , in his strong square hand . |
| 9 | Wurlitzer originally wrote a quite different last chapter to his novel but threw it away because it seemed too analytical . |
| 10 | I 've got a database of what it looked like before you touched it so if it fucks up |
| 11 | The camera followed it down as it walked across her breast ( thirty foot wide ) and past her nipple ( five foot high ) . |
| 12 | I ENJOYED it most because it made me laugh so much . |
| 13 | Waddell says a blanket was thrown over the old man and several times the old man knocked it off and it had to be replaced . |
| 14 | We positioned it so that it faced away from the doorway , to avoid draughts and to give the future inhabitants a little privacy . |
| 15 | The Queen and Prince Philip survived it only because it came upon them in middle age — when any youthful indescretion or misbehaviour had long since been enjoyed and then forgotten in the mists of time . |
| 16 | ‘ I pulled it off and it bled . ’ |
| 17 | The water 's been flowing so fast it 's just dug up the tree by its roots and it pulled it along and it 's got wedged in the bridge look . |
| 18 | and then and then I s and then in me head I did erm seven take away ten and then I worked it out and it turned out to be three . |
| 19 | I recall from when I saw it later that it made excellent footage . |
| 20 | ‘ It will be a stormy night , ’ Michael said , and Crane , leaning forward , took Allen 's dagger from his belt and flung it outside where it clattered on the stones . |
| 21 | He granted an injunction restraining the defendant from using and/or disclosing confidential information but qualified it so that it did not apply to communications made by the defendant either to FIMBRA or the Inland Revenue in respect of the matters identified in the defence . |
| 22 | There were n't , we did it singly and it made more people did n't it ? |
| 23 | ‘ I did it once and it has made me afraid . |
| 24 | Jinny remembered it clearly because it had been quite different from all the solemn newspaper cuttings Keith had shown her , and she had stopped to make fun of one or two of Harriet Shakespeare 's more nauseating remarks . |
| 25 | But only the occasional shafts of sunlight gave it away as it worked slowly downwards , making the most of its daily exercise . |
| 26 | Well did the Book of Common prayer put it succinctly when it spoke of the relationship between us and God : ‘ Whose service is perfect freedom ’ . |
| 27 | Well it was off before and , and he put it back and it seemed to be alright did n't it Joan ? |
| 28 | You can hear that one on Planet Cannonball and it had the most incredible effect ; the voltage on it would sag so much when you cranked it up that it sounded like a volume swell pedal . |
| 29 | She unflapped her holster , and shifted it round so it hung behind her waist , out of sight . |
| 30 | UniTree , used primarily in the scientific world — Convex Computer Corp has an implementation and Floating Point Systems Inc picked it up before it turned up its toes — is an implementation of the IEEE Mass Storage Reference Model and automatically migrates files among disk and tape libraries . |