Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I cooked it over a fire or dried it in the sun . |
| 2 | Someone who has received an object in exchange is like a buyer ; and so is someone who has received it in payment or retained it after settlement of a law suit or obtained it on the basis of a promise otherwise than as a gift . |
| 3 | The United States , faced with an allocation problem , began a review of its defensive commitments that led it to the conclusion that in the event of a military confrontation with the Soviet Union in Europe , the resources it could commit to the fledgling NATO alliance would be insufficient . |
| 4 | the most important time aspect of a planation surface is from the latest possible time of initiation of the cycle that produced it to the earliest possible time that it ceased being shaped ( i.e. its terminal date ) because of either burial or uplift ; |
| 5 | Like someone in a trance , she gazed at the clasp that fastened it at the throat . |
| 6 | I was just going to mention the fact that if you have had breast cancer you can not go on H R T cos it was a hormone that caused it in the first place ! |
| 7 | On certain nights the mirror had a faint lustre that separated it from the deeper shadows of the corner in which it stood . |
| 8 | They covered a large tract of ground , quite deserted , but conveniently illuminated by the high powerful lights round the warehouses that separated it from the still-working mainline railway . |
| 9 | Course , what you 've got to think of , Conservatives are the one that started it in the first place . |
| 10 | Similar preoccupations dominated the issues that took It into the spring of 1967 . |
| 11 | She found the rabbit , chewing on a stubby cactus , and stabbed it in the neck . |
| 12 | She walked across to the dresser flattened the cheque out and laid it beside the bucket . |
| 13 | I was there when they took the Enchantment of the Beastline and laid it across the Silver Loom , and I was there as it fell to shreds in their hands . |
| 14 | He took off the heavy overcoat he was wearing and laid it across the top of the filing cabinet . |
| 15 | I took my gun out of the closet and put two bullets in the magazine and laid it on the table beside my bed . |
| 16 | Louis carefully folded his handkerchief into a square and laid it on the deck beside his chair . |
| 17 | He took the flare from its bracket and laid it on the top of the trap-door . |
| 18 | The teacher then took a length of string , cut it to the height of the child and laid it on the ground on top of the shadow of Leanne . |
| 19 | He frowned , pulled the napkin from his lap and laid it on the table as he stood up , shrugging apologetically to his mother , seeming to indicate that it was the kind of thing that had happened before , from time to time . |
| 20 | She took off her hat and laid it on the table , and he saw with a sense of shock that her hair was white down the line of the parting where the tinting had grown out . |
| 21 | She put out her hand and laid it on the book , then said : |
| 22 | Gentle took off his heavy coat , and laid it on the chair by the door , knowing when he returned it would be warm and covered with cat hairs . |
| 23 | Then , on 11 April 1951 , they drove the stone to Arbroath and laid it on the altar of the ruined abbey , draped in the saltire flag of St Andrew . |
| 24 | He took a 78 from the shelf in the cabinet , wiped it with a fat hand , and laid it on the turntable . |
| 25 | He hastily unfastened the shoulder holster , too , and laid it on the table , then crossed to the fridge , found a can of 7-Up and drank deeply . |
| 26 | Donna pressed the ‘ End ’ button on the phone and laid it on the table . |
| 27 | Donna took the envelope upstairs with her and laid it on the bedside table . |
| 28 | She made an offering of flowers and fruits , spurred pennants of scarlet heliconia from the rainforest , blue-blushed rue and sorrel vines with tendrils trailing , and laid it on the pit . |
| 29 | She took it through to the lounge and laid it on the rug and at first I was amused But I could see all was not well because she sat as she usually does , but for a long time — over half an hour — then she lay down like this and she has n't moved . " |
| 30 | From a drawer she took out a cardboard box , and laid it on the table . |