Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [vb past] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actually what is now taken to be the normal and basic meaning of the English word " family " is far removed from the meaning it carried in earlier times when the economic basis of English society was different . |
| 2 | It need not , however , have had the significance it acquired in tenth-century documents when it did come to express claims to a kingship of all Anglo-Saxons . |
| 3 | But as Elisabeth stood watching she noticed that where the sea met the shore it broke in lively foam . |
| 4 | Fleming had called it a ferment , or enzyme , but that did not take matters very far , and gave no hint of what it might ferment , or of what substance it attacked in susceptible microbes . |
| 5 | The New York-based Hungarian Telephone & Cable Corp plans to invest up to $300m in the development of local Hungarian telephone companies , installing up to 200,000 new telephone lines , and it also plans to invest the money it raised in long-distance telephone ventures . |
| 6 | Perhaps , too , the darker minds , full of rancour and disharmony , anger , lust , egotism , greed and intense attachment to the things of this world , takes the hell it experienced in physical life into its own world of mental hell when deprived of the physical form . |
| 7 | Some of the things a good caddie was expected to know included a good knowledge of the game , to be able to advise the player on which club to use at any given moment ; a knowledge of the course , the length of its holes , its geography from tee to green and the subtleties and borrows of those greens , as well as the way it played in all weather conditions . |
| 8 | The office of collector attracted that type of candidate , and throughout the century it remained in high demand , occasioning many notable political battles in the counties . |
| 9 | Cos I 've the bill for the hotel it came in one lump as two hundred and four pound . |