Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] it [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Away he goes Lawrence again to the right-handed and that 's short on the back foot plays it down with a dead bat , ball bounces little more than a yard or two . |
| 2 | Friend the Member for Aberdeen , North said that when an attempt was made in Committee to create a consumer body with a wider remit , the Chairman ruled it out of order on the ground that it went beyond the scope of the Bill . |
| 3 | Oh I cried when Penny went I really did , I said you with a temper and that last day you know , we all got a bucket filled it up with ash trays , dog ends , bits of paper , oh I do n't know what was in it |
| 4 | He was busy in the bottom of the second punt , and when he climbed out of it he cut the rope securing the first punt with his sword , and then used his foot to launch it out across the water . |
| 5 | You and Mum built it up from a seedy little run-down nothing ! |
| 6 | Although the drawing made it back to civilisation the pickled head , along with the rest of the ship , was lost . |
| 7 | Revenue from normal trading fell , but the club made it up from the transfer market . |
| 8 | Pay out just enough line to have the kite clear of the ground when holding the handle high and , as the wind fills it out to its proper shape , then lifts , allow the line to unwind from the handle ( or reel if you have one ) . |
| 9 | Twelve years after the Republicans moved into the White House and 13 months after the Arkansas governor launched his long-shot bid to win it back for the Democrats , the man on the defensive was Mr Bush . |
| 10 | The lawyer turned it over on its back and saw the face of Edward Hyde . |
| 11 | Research links it back to poverty and housing . |
| 12 | It could n't do any harm to put it off until tomorrow . |
| 13 | A puff of wind swung it round on its vane , and snatched a bunch of twigs from its beak and sent them twirling slowly down the steeple to the ground at Carol 's feet , where they sank into the snow . |
| 14 | Sex on Sweeney 's cannibal isle is said to be a business of being ‘ bored ’ , but the horror of the perception takes it out of mere ‘ boredom ’ , which was killing the Melanesians and , Eliot thought , the modern world . |
| 15 | Fearing pre-election jitters would make things worse for French collectors this year , organisers Daniel Gervis and Florence Benhaim also changed the dates of the Salon to put it on after France 's two-round General Election on 21 and 28 March . |
| 16 | Might it have happened that she met a horse drawn set on its way to day , and that she squeezed herself against the tunnel wall in a vain attempt to let it by without harm to herself ? |
| 17 | Shiona thought disapprovingly , as she crossed to the coffee-maker to switch it on for herself . |
| 18 | And er the sparrow thought he would maybe make it back to the mainland now so the peedie fairy climbed on his back and the sparrow flew it back to the mainland . |
| 19 | Some sailors were trying to put up a small sail , but the wind blew it out of their hands , away across the sea into the night . |
| 20 | She tried to open the door to the storage-room , but twice the wind blew it out of her hands . |
| 21 | In the meantime , the hole in the road is reopened , and at 6pm the men line up by the side of the maypole , the band starts to play and the command to hoist it on to shoulders is given . |
| 22 | he is okay at kicking from back passes , especially when he side foots it back to Dorigo or Kelly instead of hoofing it . |
| 23 | I spoke to the people , analysed the fault sent it back down the line . |
| 24 | There 's a little tiny bit to tinker with , but it 's not if we were to , we , we 're canvassing at pressed about altering the length of the lunchtime break to break it down from an hour and a half and an hour and a quarter to an hour and a quarter to an hour which is being we would save some money on not paying our |
| 25 | He pointed to the university 's successful three-year programme to steer it out of serious financial problems without compulsory redundancies . |
| 26 | CONSOLES STREETFIGHTER 2 ( SNES , £64.99 ) : The celebrated Capcom coin-op makes it on to the SNES with more head-to-head action than Lennox Lewis could handle . |
| 27 | transformer to bring it down to a lower voltage . |
| 28 | We shall then take action to follow it through with the EC authorities . |
| 29 | A repurchase agreement provides a means for the short to lend money to the futures market : the short agrees to buy a bond with a provision to sell it back to the market at a predetermined price and to receive a rate of interest , the repo rate . |
| 30 | The Russian twisted it out of his grasp as they rolled over and over , locked in a kicking , butting embrace . |