Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] it in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was just going to mention the fact that if you have had breast cancer you can not go on H R T cos it was a hormone that caused it in the first place ! |
| 2 | Course , what you 've got to think of , Conservatives are the one that started it in the first place . |
| 3 | She took off everything that could identify her , and stowed it in the bottom layer of her jewellery box . |
| 4 | He felt for Thomas 's hand and wrung it in the momentary blindness after the torch was quenched against the rock . |
| 5 | He won East Bristol in 1900 and retained it in the general elections of 1906 and 1910 . |
| 6 | He had brought his telescope ashore with him and mounted it in the little dormer window high up under the eaves of the steep-pitched east-facing gable of his house . |
| 7 | As they longed for a spiritual assurance of Christ 's presence and received it in the Holy Spirit which literally inspired in them knowledge and love of God so the meditator may grow in inner spiritual knowledge ( c.33 , 36 ) . |
| 8 | He lifted it up and dropped it in the white plastic bag which lines the litter bin . |
| 9 | Once they took one away from the woodpile and hid it in the stable and the mother searched everywhere , growing more and more distressed . |
| 10 | She could n't abide the thought of it , sitting there grinning , it gave her bad dreams she said , so she took it one morning and hid it in the stable loft . |
| 11 | He screwed the note up and threw it in the general direction of the wastepaper basket . |
| 12 | So I used a large plastic storage box , and filled it with rooted but loose watercress and placed it in the main pool fed by the return flow from a gravity-fed filter . |
| 13 | Parliament never voted enough money for a naval war with the Netherlands to be decisively successful , so the most substantial result of the anti-Dutch policy was that in 1664 the English seized New Amsterdam , and kept it in the 1668 peace negotiations by handing over in exchange the English colony of Surinam in Guiana . |
| 14 | The Japanese translator of the English book seems to have recovered the original Japanese text ( written in Classical Japanese ) and quoted it in the Japanese translation . |
| 15 | He pulled the local daily paper from under his arm and brandished it in the blue air as if it were a short sword . |
| 16 | The Scots , who led 12-3 overnight , needed only one more point to secure overall victory and clinched it in the first match to finish yesterday when Jim Muir beat Mike Marsden in straight sets . |
| 17 | Brussels had a river but buried it in the 19th century when it began to stink . |
| 18 | Women prisoners in Armagh had political status until 1975 but lost it in the following year and the numbers in Armagh rose dramatically during the late seventies . |