Example sentences of "it [coord] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As one of my comrades put it : " One bloke tried it and finished up in the Glasshouse . |
| 2 | When the Sergeant returned with steaming liquid in a tin container , Charles warmed his hands round it and gazed out across the flat expanse of his new command . |
| 3 | And the worst part was , everyone else seemed to understand it and strode out to the quay full of knowledgeable confidence . |
| 4 | and left it and walked off in the kitchen . |
| 5 | Eventually I left them to it and went off into the night , the bells keeping me company through the streets . |
| 6 | Sara left her to it and went out to the kitchen to begin the dinner . |
| 7 | His fingers were bloody and in his eyes there was such despair that I could not stand it and went out into the filthy courtyard ’ . |
| 8 | Dalgliesh left him to it and went out into the passage . |
| 9 | I pushed the black case deep into the hanging space again , stood up outside the door , closed it and went back to the scenes of jollity to the rear . |
| 10 | Garry answered it and came back into the kitchen with two policemen . |
| 11 | ‘ And I threw back the bedclothes before I had any more time to think about it and burst out of the bed ; threw myself into the middle of the bedroom , screaming and roaring and thrashing about . ’ |
| 12 | He dropped the diary into the drawer , closed it and fell back on the pillows . |
| 13 | Laidlaw drove past it and pulled up at the end of the dirt road . |
| 14 | ‘ When the show started everybody jumped on it and picked up on the things that were n't working . |
| 15 | He leaned close to it and peered out into the night , trying to see what was out there … |
| 16 | On a nod from Richie , Patrick left them to it and moved over to the first tee . |
| 17 | I was bored stupid by it and moved on to the marketing department of an American conglomerate . |
| 18 | Er , most officers would have accepted it and moved on to the next subject . |