Example sentences of "[verb] it [prep] [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | May Roberts Rinehart used it to excellent effect in The Circular Staircase . |
| 2 | Place it in some water in a saucer and it will soon grow new feathery leaves . |
| 3 | Another instance of disrespect involving the refusal of verse concerns Hotspur , reading the letter from a fellow rebel who has had cold feet — the letter is in prose , and Hotspur interrupts it with angry comments in prose , an unusual effect in Shakespeare — and then being confronted with his wife . |
| 4 | Whereas previously each local authority had access to its own business rate revenue , now the central government collected all this revenue and redistributed it to local authorities in proportion to the local population . |
| 5 | Encouraged by these findings we have formulated a bismuth enema and compared it with 5-ASA enemas in patients with active distal colitis to examine the therapeutic effect . |
| 6 | Eating the cake , he had felt it like tasteless dough in his mouth , every mouthful an act of shared indecency . |
| 7 | The individual experiences of recovery are so varied and the learning opportunities so diverse that there is a general maxim , " Where you are is where you are meant to be " , which implies that one can learn from any experience and put it to good use in recovery . |
| 8 | But why should speakers or writers actually plan to say something in one way and then put it in other words in order to ensure the intended interpretation ? |
| 9 | They got ta do it with one hand in their pocket . |
| 10 | Yeah but they 're , but they 're not they 're gon na do it in some time in June I think that 's the target . |
| 11 | It was no longer possible for casual thieves to take an animal for their own use , or to sell it for agricultural purposes in a village five or ten kilometres distant . |
| 12 | At other times they would collect along the river bank and the younger Martyn was to write many years later of Crocus vernus , ‘ I remember , when a boy , to have seen it in considerable quantity in Battersea meadow , near the mill ’ . |
| 13 | It had appeared for a while that Coronation Street 's rival EastEnders , boosted by a weekend omnibus , would oust it from top spot in the ratings . |
| 14 | Just over half of the teachers claiming to have seen the booklet said they had used it for in-service training in their school . |
| 15 | They take the infantile mewing and they modify it to each situation in which they wish to express a need for something . |
| 16 | Alternatively , the exporter could seek a loan against it or negotiate it to another party in settlement of a domestic trade debt . |
| 17 | The Capitulary of Thionville in 805 , for instance , forbids usury , the kind of usury which involved buying cheap corn in quantity and selling it at excessive profit in times of scarcity . |
| 18 | So you want to avoid it at all costs in release three of four . |
| 19 | The Brazilians are producing lapachol for oral administration as part of a drug therapy for cancer , and the authorities have approved it for clinical trials in humans . |
| 20 | I 'll keep it in this tin in this draw . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , I would advocate studying some subject in depth , not necessarily as an undergraduate , so that you can feel you have really mastered it at some stage in your career . |
| 22 | Thomas Cook himself , whose name was to become a by-word for organised tourism in the next twenty-five years , had begun his career arranging such outings and developed it into big business in 1851 . |
| 23 | Even so , Faldo , with a 71 , still finished top European , overtaking Ian Woosnam , who had shared the lead after two rounds and was still sharing it after three holes in the third on Saturday when a storm interrupted play for three hours . |
| 24 | The International Herald Tribune of April 28 reported that the US government had for more than two years had evidence that Iraq had diverted food purchased under a US$5,500 million aid programme and exchanged it for Soviet-made arms in Jordan , Turkey and the Soviet Union , including nuclear technology according to a confidential US document dated Oct. 13 , 1989 . |
| 25 | This defence caused some difficulty for the Court of Appeal when two cases raised it in quick succession in the summer and autumn of 1988 . |
| 26 | Gerald Brennan , writing just two or three years after the war , says in The Face of Spain that the slow hand-clap to attract the attention of waiters had died out , but I heard it in several places in the north . |
| 27 | It is finished in black leather , has an ABS breaking system and a 158 bhp engine that shifts it from 0–62 mph in 7.7 seconds , and from there to a top speed of 134 mph . |
| 28 | This is no fiction , but a report from the Daily Telegraph of 1864 which so impressed itself upon Ruskin that he reprinted it in red type in Sesame and Lilies : ‘ Be sure , the facts themselves are written in that colour , in a book which we shall all of us , literate or illiterate , have to read our page of , some day . ’ |
| 29 | The original Model X ( NR49V ) was known also as the Cirrus Derby Racer and Lowell Bayles flew it into second Place in the 1930 All-America Derby . |
| 30 | The US Food and Drug Administration announced earlier this month that it was likely to initiate a ban against farm use of the antibiotic — known as sulfamethazine in the US — because two laboratory studies linked it to thyroid cancer in rats and mice . |