Example sentences of "[prep] it [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below it stood the childhood doll 's house she had intended to renovate for posterity and the guitar whose broken strings had halted her on the path to world fame as a singer of gypsy ballads , in a costume of scarlet and yellow sewn with little mirrors . |
| 2 | She imagined she was cupping this white-hot power in her womb , and that the walls of it contained the fire . |
| 3 | Spots of it stained the thighs of her robe . |
| 4 | The shock of it surprised the dog , when then bit the farmer ( modestly forbids me to mention where , but do give it some thought ) . |
| 5 | Some years ago the teachers of one language pronounced themselves satisfied that at the end of a year the students of it had the capacity for literary reading ; the equally competent and concerned teachers of another language were convinced that their students had achieved no such capacity , and that the process was rather a waste of time . |
| 6 | The shock of it choked the scream that tried to form in her throat . |
| 7 | The skirt developed for the Super 4 was more efficient than its predecessors : less of it touched the sea , so less power was wasted in overcoming water resistance . |
| 8 | The man who got out of it left the headlights full on and the engine running . |
| 9 | Indeed , a significant part of it concerned the relevance of depreciation accounting . |
| 10 | She loved her childhood with him , and the memory of it survived the misfortunes of her adult life . |
| 11 | But none of it contradicted the evidence Defries had seen , and some of that had been equally unbelievable . |
| 12 | The pliable rope rose and fell a little , and the bottom of it hit the oak floor with a hard and hollow sound . |
| 13 | In the centre of the room there was a portrait of a very beautiful young man , and in front of it stood the artist himself , Basil Hallward . |
| 14 | Because of the ambiguity in interpreting data of this type and the relatively small amount of it encountered the analysis will concentrate solely on descriptions which were scored as correct recalls . |
| 15 | None of it held the magic of her communication with Friend ; even here , jacked into the shadows , she ached for him but reason told her she would n't find him , long before she stopped looking . |
| 16 | It was the most delicate shade of creamy blue and out of it floated the masts and superstructures of fishing boats , riding silently at anchor . |
| 17 | ‘ The government is trying to fiddle the figures in an attempt to curry political favour just like it fiddled the unemployment figures . ’ |
| 18 | Behind it lay the woods called The Chase , an ancient forest . |
| 19 | The offer was rejected but behind it lay the assumption that a new relationship will have to develop between north and the south in a wider European context . |
| 20 | Er er it was like a Molotov co bo cocktail , a thing like that and you put it in the , in the tube and you put a wad of cotton , gun cotton behind it closed the flap at the back onto er just a latch , like a , a door a gate latch which locked it , then fired the cap which fired the gun cotton which sent the well then we we 're trying this out on the waste ground where the , that was then , where the waterworks ' offices are now in Green Lane , well there that was , at that time , that was a glue factory that was the glue factory there ooh . |
| 21 | The composition of the crowd altered and with it went the surveillance and supervision of the young . |
| 22 | With it went the need to govern and administer lands thus acquired , and the demand that the inhabitants of those lands should recognise the legitimacy of English rule by taking an oath of allegiance to Henry . |
| 23 | She released her breath , and with it went the tension her body had been locked in . |
| 24 | It seemed to me that the stench of Billingsley 's cigar smoke clung to the boat like the sulphurous reek of the pit , and with it lingered the realisation that I had been twisted into dishonesty as easily as a length of rope could be coiled into hanks . |
| 25 | The early experience of industrialisation ( prior to mechanisation ) in both Britain and the USA and the emergence of skill patterns associated with it saw the rise and consolidation of craft unions . |
| 26 | With it came the sense of the words Benedict 's tongue had scorched into her skin : ‘ you 're mine ’ . |
| 27 | With it came the realisation of the meaning of the horrifying dream about the little muttering peasant . |
| 28 | But with it came the recognition that the ability of the system to facilitate this process is limited . |
| 29 | Throughout the 1960's the Club continued to increase its membership and with it came the demand for better facilities backed up with plenty of suggestions ! |
| 30 | Giovanna 's husband acquired a long garden cane , which had been supporting a tottering mallow , and with it established the depth . |