Example sentences of "it [vb past] [conj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Armando Boetto , commanding officer of the 49 a Squadriglia , Blue 1 getting in the final burst before it disintegrated and fell into the sea . |
| 2 | It caught and twisted at the heart , and there was no armour against it . |
| 3 | It flickered and flew along the elding , and then burst into smoke , so thick and foul in the throat that I was fain to get on my knees behind a boulder , for the wind out of the cove sent it downhill … |
| 4 | The ferry was in ; it rose and fell on the swelling Grönsund . |
| 5 | Mrs Hollidaye 's voice was comforting as it rose and fell like the wind . |
| 6 | I stood staring at the jeep as it bumped and swayed over the uneven ground of the orchard until it reached the road and then disappeared in a cloud of dust . |
| 7 | ‘ shall have effect as if it granted or provided for the grant of a tenancy for a term of 10 years , subject to a right exercisable either by the landlord or the tenant to determine the tenancy , if the war ends before the expiration of that term , by at least one month 's notice in writing given after the end of the war ; … |
| 8 | A hideously powerful blow on one of the boards sent it splintered and whirling into the basement . |
| 9 | It accelerated and moved into the slow lane , as he passed . |
| 10 | There was a rough equality between them which pleased him since it ignored and slipped through the magical armour of those clothes , the possessions , the name , the title , the carriage and four , the weight of deference and the history of servility . |
| 11 | It came and sniffed around the edges , and gradually came all the way out . |
| 12 | It writhed and curled in the fire as if it was alive . |
| 13 | But suddenly it turned and galloped at the house and to my horror it leapt gigantically up and straight at me with bared teeth . |
| 14 | It shone and danced in the darkness , and without it there would be nothing ; but one hand raised against it and it could lightly cease . |
| 15 | It was the last age when the railway station was an essential ingredient of every traveller 's itinerary : point of departure , point of arrival , point of contact en route with everyday life as it teemed and flowed outside the protective cocoon of the train . |
| 16 | She was shocked at the journalistic licence it exposed and appalled by the crime to which it referred . |
| 17 | Eventually , it tired and came to the pan . |
| 18 | Then he added : ‘ I 'll leave it packed and labelled to the left of the door in the painting shed . |
| 19 | It repeated and enlarged upon the treatment he used at the Board of Trade and Privy Council Offices , with the main entrance , under a large dome , into a grand hall 320 feet long by 150 feet wide ( 97.540 × 45.720 m ) on the site of the Foreign Office . |
| 20 | ‘ Zissick , zissick , ’ it called and darted across the shingle after winged insects at the water 's edge . |
| 21 | Then a body-bag was laid beside the corpse , and what remained of Simon Cormack was gently lifted from where it lay and placed on the spread-out plastic . |
| 22 | It bounced a few yards ahead of the Hussars ' advance , then slammed into a wood where it tore and crashed through the thickly leaved branches . |
| 23 | This Jacobinism was exceptional ; more significant was the gradual growth of the idea that the monarch 's power , however beneficent it appeared when directed against the strongholds of privilege , must be limited by a constitution in the event of its being exercised by an irresponsible favourite like Godoy . |
| 24 | It spun and shivered on the air , and the threads and the filaments began to descend on the Court , covering them with the strong powerful magic . |
| 25 | But it said that to get at the root of the problem the Government had to tackle the whole issue of deprivation . |
| 26 | It dipped and fluttered in the chilly air , its wings drab and flaky . |
| 27 | Something moved on the farther side of the lochan , something hulky and dirty white , caught in the bog myrtle , where it shifted and billowed in the breeze . |
| 28 | It prospered and expanded under the principalship of Sir William Dawson ; by the time he had completed 38 years as Principal ( 1855–1893 ) the student body had risen from 100 to over 1000 , and Dawson had had the satisfaction of seeing great strides made in both the building programme and the various curricula — not least in his own scientific fields . |
| 29 | Without discrimination they illuminated the sombre , monolithic blocks of the old city and the arrogant , hectic jumble of the new , observing without comment how it sprawled and spilled beyond the circumference of the dismantled dome . |
| 30 | The attempt to legislate on what was essentially moral behaviour proved a disaster , though it lasted until reversed by the 21st Amendment in 1933 . |