Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [verb] it in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He shows that the maize is an important political symbol ; that people use it in ritual exchanges ; that its by-products are useful in ways unique to it ; in short , that it is effective in areas of life other than nutrition . |
| 2 | It was already deep in debt , after repeated maladministration and corruption amongst its earlier inmates , and Wolsey seized it in 1525 . |
| 3 | One particularly violent swerve took it right off the counter and Finn caught it in mid air , upside down , wheels spinning . |
| 4 | When Bill and Jenny bought it in 1977 , it was in need of a lot of tender loving care — today , much restored and refurbished it has a wealth of beams , stripped pine and attractive brick fireplaces . |
| 5 | Epstein had one of the most important collections of African and Oceanic sculpture ever assembled in this country and introduced a number of contemporaries to non-European art ; most recent scholarship puts the beginning of his collecting activity in 1912 when it is documented but Gardiner places it in 1904 , ( i.e. before Derain and Picasso ) when Epstein was a penniless student in Paris . |
| 6 | This appears reactionary because Freud states it in such general , ahistorical terms . |
| 7 | When Pennant visited it in 1772 there were three farmers living in it with their stock and crops and at times in the summer months as many as twelve families were known to stay in it at once and it was the headquarters of those employed in the manufacture ( if kelp . |
| 8 | Ever Ready , a battery maker , was losing market share to Duracell and made pre-tax profits of only £4.2m when Hanson bought it in 1981 . |
| 9 | As Roosevelt put it in one of his homely comparisons : Say the New Deal is a tree which , as it grows , continually produces rot and dead wood . |
| 10 | The NHS had failed to produce ‘ a uniform standard of service for all ’ , as Bevan put it in 1945 . |