Example sentences of "[vb past] it [subord] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lunged for the meth. bottle and caught it before it hit the floor . |
| 2 | She tossed it up and caught it as it came slowly down . |
| 3 | Rose left it on the coffee table by her husband 's chair , and when he had had his usual mixed fry-up and was preparing to have his snooze , his eye caught it as it lay there . |
| 4 | He moved his hand and touched her breast through the robe she wore , found the nipple and stroked it until it hardened and she stirred . |
| 5 | The barber took a knife to the thicket , weighed it when it was off , and gave her 2½ lb of hair wrapped up in tissue paper which the nurse briskly took from her as soon as they were outside because she did n't believe in being morbid . |
| 6 | And if she ever used it where it was overheard , the eavesdropper would consider the activity admirable ; for George Hudson was still the Railway King . |
| 7 | It was reduced because it was a discontinued pattern and James used it until it was about four months old . |
| 8 | Under the English system of parishes every diocese had variety ; that is each parish had the Prayer Book but used it as it thought , with simple or elaborate ceremonial , and with variations of language sanctioned by the ( illegal ) Prayer Book of 1928 if it wished . |
| 9 | General , and later President , Eisenhower visited it when it became the American second General Hospital . |
| 10 | To his credit , Lord Whitelaw having been forced to bring in the short sharp shock , dropped it when it was proved not to work . |
| 11 | Ultimately , he says , he opposed it since it would mean terminating the 386BSD project , an action CSRG has taken , as well as having him renege on a published promise to produce freely accessible 386 code . |
| 12 | Thus , despite all the effort he had devoted to the cause of German unification , he opposed it when it came through the force of Prussian arms and Bismarckian diplomacy . |
| 13 | a matter will be er that we going to fight er , easily er so I mean i , it meant that the er , that er er some more should be brought out so that it er does er adhere to what er these er er government departments er expect as a response rather than er er as this considered issue raising er , we can er facilitate that er quite er easily but er I think er the the main point is what Hugh has said , that er we opposed it because it 's not going to help in my view it 's not going to help er the patients , the patients are not going to come off any better as a result of er , these er er what I would say and I feel and er the , I I I 'd like to know what er the GP 's think about cos GP 's usually erm er , advise their patients if they have to wait a long time from one hospital , they would advise them to go into London and er , if that 's been stopped as been er that 's been stated erm then erm , er the GP 's are not going to feel very happy about their patients er , getting er erm a lesser service . |
| 14 | Unlike his mother and Rose-Ann he did n't object to burnt toast , so he buttered it as it was , not pausing to toast the other side of it . |
| 15 | I sat cross-legged just by the blaze , staring into it from up-wind until it was out and only the metal of the Black Destroyer remained , then I took the sooty skeleton and buried it where it had been ruined , at the bottom of the hill . |
| 16 | He imagined it as it would be , centred in red and gold on a black flag , high on a standard , waving in the wind over the stadiums where they would hold their rallies , a symbol of a proud and new Germany , the Fatherland in its true glory . |
| 17 | A fist flew towards him on the screen , filled it as it made apparent impact and then vanished away . |
| 18 | As Kipling complained , they hardly noticed it when it was there ; and since its conversion into a Commonwealth of Nations in 1947 , with Indian independence , they have hardly noticed that a Commonwealth is not the same thing . |
| 19 | I measured it when it died and confirmed it was the correct species by carrying out various ichthyological classification data , such as scale counts and rin ray counts . |
| 20 | The cold was intense , but I welcomed it because it gave us an excuse to lie close together for warmth . |
| 21 | The spring rain soaked him but it was warm and he licked it as it trickled down his lip . |
| 22 | He withdrew it when it was agreed to omit the paragraph in its entirety . |
| 23 | Ballesteros took world golf by the scruff of the neck and shook it until it reformed into patterns more nearly to his liking . |
| 24 | She kept hold of his arm and shook it till it became elastic and extended out of its socket like a conjuror 's string of handkerchiefs . |
| 25 | Into these they put a few handfuls of the clay and cow-dung mixture and then , adding water , kneaded it until it was liquid and as pale and frothing as freshly-churned cream . |
| 26 | Luckily we killed it before it became a full-blown institution and today no one seriously expects that food , or clothing , or even that overriding necessity , a television set , should be subsidised for all consumers , still less for a minority . |
| 27 | Comfort agreed and enjoyed it when it came , but the sparkle and fun had been taken out of their conversation by the unfortunate choice of the word ‘ gossip ’ . |
| 28 | I think some of them do , yes , I know s er some of them have said how much they enjoyed it when it started off first , but er but now it 's just got that wee bit more serious . |
| 29 | As for me , I enjoyed it because it was companionable and because Christmas is a sore on the conscience unless you minister to it . |
| 30 | I remember how he signed it because it sounded so impressive : ‘ T. Buckland Kettering ’ . ’ |