Example sentences of "[verb] it in a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These become almost like rituals as the cat grows older — little routines that reward the animal because they involve it in a social interaction with its owners or their guests . |
| 2 | When in the " sick Chicken " case of 1935 the Supreme Court ruled against the act , declaring Federal code-making an unconstitutional interference with the authority of the separate states , Roosevelt made no attempt to revive it in a new form . |
| 3 | It worries the lawyers , and the insurance company were always fussing about keeping it in a private house . |
| 4 | In 1868 and 1879 the two ‘ Torrens Acts ’ made the owner of a house responsible for keeping it in a habitable condition , and gave powers of compulsion to the local authority . |
| 5 | To recognize the value present in a situation ( he urges ) is not merely to have an attitude which someone else who conceives the ‘ factual character ’ of the situation in exactly the same way might lack , but to conceive it in a particular kind of way which could not be duplicated in someone not thus drawn to it . |
| 6 | Measure for Measure takes this basic pattern and develops it in a new direction . |
| 7 | He could quite easily accomplish it in a public place of that sort because everyone 's attention is drawn away from the area where you were sitting . |
| 8 | That 's when the Caterham goes , eight months after five of us struggled for a weekend to built it in a cramped studio behind the office . |
| 9 | Other patients give a negative skin-prick test but respond positively to an intradermal test ( see p 288 ) , which is more ‘ sensitive ’ because it uses more antigen and places it in a deeper layer of the skin . |
| 10 | TRIPOS ' extensive experience and expertise in conformational searching , activity prediction , and 3D visualisation places it in a unique position to produce a single system that unites 3D searching , molecular design and analysis with proprietary activity and property prediction techniques into an effective information analysis environment . |
| 11 | In the US , DEC 's abrupt volte-face involved it in a furious row with press and analysts — see page two . |
| 12 | In R v Mehmed [ 1963 ] Crim LR 780 where the accused had an air pistol which he produced in another 's private house , it would be reasonable to assume that he must have carried it in a public place to get it there or to take it away . |
| 13 | He found it in a stoneflagged side passage , a door bearing a small brass plate : ‘ Garland ’ . |
| 14 | They have been left behind by the economic restructuring of the 1980s , shunted off on a branch line of history and left back in the twilight of the 1970s along with flares and skinheads , a time when demagogues made last-ditch efforts to salvage working-class pride and channel it in a fascist direction . |
| 15 | These choices inevitably narrow its vision and place it in a certain niche in the media market . |
| 16 | If the trouble has started and does not look like stopping , the best solution is to provide an immaculately clean tray of fresh litter , place it in a quiet corner , and then shut the animal up in that particular room , releasing it only when it has used the tray in the approved manner . |
| 17 | Or they place it in a busy part of the house , near the back door , where people are always walking past . |
| 18 | Take a cat and place it in a special room with a circle of passages and doors . |
| 19 | But even if the note was deleted ( and Ramsey deleted it in a later edition ) , Raven could not have voted for Ramsey with enthusiasm . |
| 20 | The Labour Party regained its self-confidence , lost after it had been deserted by its leaders , who formed a National government and then heavily defeated it in a general election in 1931 . |
| 21 | It is unclear just when this happens one is unlikely to be able to observe it in a casual experiment at the kitchen sink — but Fig. 24.7 shows observations made by varying the pressure behind a suitably shaped nozzle . |
| 22 | I think that it ought to be self-evident , erm if we 've done our programme in a way which er , is clear or if we 've presented it in a clear fashion , then I think sequence and clashes er and safety , to a large extent , become self-evident . |
| 23 | I drove it straight round the corner and installed it in a costly carpark on Lexington and Forty-Third . |
| 24 | In order to discuss the analysis of Musgrave and Musgrave , it is helpful to set it in a four-quadrant diagram , similar to that used by Sandler and Tschirhart ( 1980 ) . |
| 25 | A well-established tradition holds owners to be morally entitled to their property where they have obtained it by way of an uncoerced transfer from someone who received it in a similar manner , subject to the property having been originally taken into private ownership by a legitimate process of acquisition . |
| 26 | It is difficult to speak of popular religion or to define it in a satisfactory way , because it included an amalgam of magic and superstition , belief and doubt , the pagan and the Christian . |
| 27 | The sleight of hand had not been performed to show off ; he had done it in a matter-of-fact way , as though it were no more unusual than scratching his ear . |
| 28 | Kangaroos have the same need to move rapidly , but they have done it in a different way . |
| 29 | ‘ She would have done it in a preordained way , of course , ’ mused Henry . |
| 30 | Nevertheless the constructive work of Communists in the Blitz and the war factories kept the Party alive and put it in a good position to exploit the opportunities for expansion that followed Hitler 's invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 . |