Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] it in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever it was , he 'd served me with his final invoice and I 'd paid it in full . |
| 2 | I was to do the counting — up to a hundred ( I could n't count up to a hundred , I had to do it in tens ) and when I opened my eyes he 'd have disappeared . |
| 3 | I did n't know exactly where Leicester Square was , but 1 did know it was n't far from Piccadilly , I had seen it in one of those tourist maps I had in my hand a short while ago , did n't know where it went , probably left it in the cinema showing the explicit sex film which was n't . |
| 4 | It would perhaps have been entirely adequate if I had received it in any normal circumstances . |
| 5 | Which was good for me ; if I had directed it in 1979 it would n't have had a chance . ’ |
| 6 | The others realised the error at precisely the same moment , and the subsequent racing back along the track towards each other could have been useful in Doctor Zhivago if someone had shot it in slow motion . |
| 7 | It came into force for those states which had ratified it in 1953 . |
| 8 | As for the evidence of the by-elections , Attlee himself had discounted it in 1943 : |
| 9 | She had seen it in any case and she was not Sairellen Thackray who would look down her granite nose at him and sneer . |
| 10 | The ‘ magic ’ as she had called it in those exciting days when it had all begun , had become a curse . |
| 11 | Leith , having popped along to her bedroom to take her hair out of the knot she had worn it in all day , was having serious thoughts about her actions — inviting him for a meal , for goodness ' sake ! |
| 12 | Some changes , however , were made in the draft to satisfy those who had challenged it in this way : union republics were given eleven rather than seven seats each in the Supreme Soviet 's Council of Nationalities and ex officio places on the Committee of Constitutional Supervision , and changes of wording were made in order to remove what Gorbachev described as the ‘ misunderstanding ’ that the rights of republics had been infringed . |
| 13 | You had to fold it in half to get it on . |
| 14 | The actual cost of the loan , over 15 years , would be nearly £50,000 by the time you had paid it in full . |
| 15 | The metal-winged VH-BAF joined the Airworld Collection in 1988 , who continued to maintain it in airworthy condition . |
| 16 | We forgot to put it in last night anyway . |
| 17 | It was supposed to take three to five days , but we aimed to do it in two . |
| 18 | A kolkhoz to the east of Smolensk city in the Dorogobuzhskii raion complained that in 1921 its two shefi , a nearby hospital , and a regiment , had helped with the harvest , but no one had visited it in 1922 . |
| 19 | We felt that Navan Resources should have made earlier contact with us to let us know that there was gold here , before we had to hear it in that way , ’ Mary Catherine Heanue said . |
| 20 | Cambridge liked undergraduates reading theology to have two years over the work and believed that if they tried to do it in fourteen months they would do it superficially , or else they would be sure to hurt themselves by overwork . |
| 21 | they 'd got it in right , cos she was showing my how it worked and that , all |
| 22 | The boys heard the crash and they ran as fast as they could to get help from the police and ambulance , but when the police and ambulance got there they only found the boys ' fishing tackle where they had dumped it in such haste . |
| 23 | Lowering the tender took care and patience if they wanted to keep it in one piece . |
| 24 | He had my note , but he kept putting it in safe places then forgetting where he 'd put it . |
| 25 | Furthermore , it had to regulate it in such a way as to ensure that it would ‘ contain a suitable proportion of matter calculated to appeal to tastes and interests not generally catered for by Service 1 ( i.e. ITV 1 ) ’ . |
| 26 | Now , after several hours of teasing pursuit , he had lost it in these hell-lit tunnels . |
| 27 | He had watched it in early May , as the tiny breaking leaves spread a pinkish haze over the magnificent skeleton . |
| 28 | Haverford was clear on the answer to that one ; he had mentioned it in several of his ‘ Jottings ’ . |
| 29 | He had a soft face and a long white beard with red , yellow and blue bits at the end where he had dipped it in strange chemicals by mistake . |