Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] it in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Might have been my idea — well , it was , but I only said it in a fit of temper ! — but she carried it out . |
| 2 | Aye , so she says I do n't think I 'll bother I just put it in a bargain |
| 3 | But she was still smiling at me , so I just tied it in a knot and left it . |
| 4 | As I lay on O 's chest something moved me to snap the locket open , and I remember I asked , who is that ? thinking maybe this was the solution to the mystery , and he said , in the same voice that he talked with later in the night , a sleepwalker 's voice , without taking his eyes off the ceiling he said , I do n't know ; I just found it in a magazine . |
| 5 | I just won it in a |
| 6 | This piece of information is , as far as I am aware , hitherto unrecorded in the extensive annotations which have been inflicted on the novel ; and I herewith offer it in a spirit of humility for use by professional scholars . |
| 7 | I always keep it in a tin , but even so … . ’ |
| 8 | I cherished that dolly , kept on altering the face with new stitching from time to time and I still have it in a drawer somewhere . |
| 9 | well it 's like Elly , you know , I mean even she said she 's , I can really see , she said I even said it in an argument the other day , cos none of them could see at the time |
| 10 | And I actually did it in a plastic basin . |
| 11 | As it happened I too found it in a list of drives the day after answering the letter . |
| 12 | You only spread it in a square no bigger than the width of the roller . |
| 13 | And if you just put it in a slightly more formal way on radio , that 's what you 're doing is , you 're not shifting the buck , you 're answering the question , you 're just , you 're giving yourself a bit of leeway . |
| 14 | You do n't take me up on anything — you just repeat it in a different order . |
| 15 | Erm I was , I , I thought that , when you covered all the policies you then went through and summarized all the needs and I thought you were n't going to go back and , and er explore further so what you did is you covered all the policies and then you summarized everything and then explored all the needs and s and at one point I thought that you were n't actually going to do that but you did come back and do it , you just did it in a different way . |
| 16 | Yes , but you probably use it in a slightly different context , do n't you . |
| 17 | Once before I told you something that Angela Thirkell said , and you sold me to Edna [ E. Box , the painter ] , who sold you to Olivia , who told someone else , who straightway wrote it in a letter to Angela herself . |
| 18 | You never had it in a fucking |
| 19 | However , we 'll see about that — it 's one thing jumping well in your own gym , but it 's another one altogether doing it in a stadium — in a championship — with thousands of people looking at you . |
| 20 | Well why do we then shove it in a stupid s four o'clock job ? |
| 21 | they just scoop it in a bag and there 's loads in it , probably make loads of dumplings with it it 's got the flour and suet with it , you just mix it up |
| 22 | You will have seen , with as much surprise as pleasure , a child of nine play the harpsichord like the great masters ; & what will have astonished you even more was to hear from trustworthy persons that he already played it in a superior manner three years ago ; to know that almost everything he plays is of his own composition ; to have found in all his pieces , and even in his improvisations , that character of force which is the stamp of genius , that variety which proclaims the fire of imagination & that charm which proves an assured taste ; and lastly , to have seen him perform the most difficult pieces with an ease and a facility that would be surprising even in a musician of thirty … . |
| 23 | When Adam had a document for Miranda to sign that he thought she might argue about , he always included it in a sheaf of other papers he handed to her at the end of the day , when she was exhausted . |
| 24 | Occasionally he retaliated with his own efforts about the relative sweetness of something his guest had brought , but he usually said it in an unconvinced , muddled way . |
| 25 | He then enclosed it in a transparent box which he provided with a mechanism for straining the specimen in bending . |
| 26 | erm There 's a kind of assumption that if something , if somebody does something on a Sunday afternoon , for lack of better , something better to do or because it 's raining and golf is therefore , therefore off , that he therefore does it in a truer , sincerer way than a man who might be doing it as his career , for his income , to keep his family alive and so on . |