Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] it in the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Post-GLC and with Third Term Thatcherism staring it in the face , Labour did , in a sense , revert to type .
2 Mr Fox said that original fittings , including Winston Churchill 's hotline and the phone booth housing it in the Admiral 's offices , will be installed early next year .
3 Seasons : At an altitude of 2,475′ ( 750m ) , this mountain crag faces NE and gets morning sunshine , with the top third of Titan 's Wall receiving it in the evening .
4 I know that they 've stopped people doing it in the past because they would n't , did n't want .
5 The savings on operating costs alone were immense , some experts putting it in the order of £2 million a year .
6 What can be asserted is that the benefits are too marginal to warrant the attention the subject has aroused — and the undertaking too complex to be able to withstand the political controversy surrounding it in the West .
7 Although the laws governing the different orders are not strictly reducible to each other , Comte felt that the basis for sociology could be found in biology , the science preceding it in the hierarchy .
8 I admit my man was out of order tackling it in the way he did , for which he will be disciplined , I assure you . ’
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