Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [verb] [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.

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1 It knew somehow that it belonged there , not here , and when thunder boomed in the sky it heard that thunder in its newly transmogrified body .
2 4(5) This Act applies in respect of births after ( but not before ) its passing , and in respect of any such birth it replaces any law in force before its passing , whereby a person could be liable to a child in respect of disabilities with which it might be born ; but in section 1(3) of this Act the expression ‘ liable in tort ’ does not include any reference to liability by virtue of this Act , or to liability by virtue of any such law .
3 ‘ This Act applies in respect of births after ( but not before ) its passing , and in respect of any such birth it replaces any law in force before its passing , whereby a person could be liable to a child in respect of disabilities with which it might be born ; …
4 This type of remembering , which comes unbidden , through the sense of taste or touch or smell , is what Marcel of course calls ‘ involuntary ’ or ‘ affective memory ’ , and in contrast to intellectual memory it recaptures past experience in its lived immediacy .
5 This outlook emboldened Iran to repudiate the military provisions of the 1921 Soviet-Persian Treaty at the time it abrogated Iranian membership in CENTO .
6 ‘ The plaintiff admits for the purposes of this action , that on 2 March 1988 it agreed to accept a surrender of the lease from the first defendant and that by its agents G. Moore , certified bailiffs , and as advised by the third party it recorded this surrender in a memorandum of 2 March 1988 .
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