Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] it [adv] in the " in BNC.

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1 One father who lives in Harley Grove , Darlington , said : ‘ I threw it straight in the bin .
2 I discovered it today in the pocket of a jacket I had n't worn since then .
3 I took it seriously in the middle of the night .
4 I took it personally in the end , very personally .
5 To stop its silent nagging I pushed it away in the bottom drawer of my desk ; went to bed , thought about Bourani , drifted into various romantic-sexual fantasies with that enigmatic figure ; and failed entirely , in spite of my tiredness , to go to sleep .
6 No , my guess is that he or she hid it somewhere in the undergrowth .
7 She raised it high in the air and brought it down with a crash right on the top of the wretched Bruce Bogtrotter 's head and pieces flew all over the platform .
8 On the second day after she first saw the white gleam she saw it again in the same place .
9 I even thought of trying to grab it from her but she put it away in the drawer where she kept it and stood in front of it .
10 With great reverence we laid it here in the Treasure House .
11 The other U-boat , brought from Norway , rests on the sands of Kiel Roads , close to the gloomy German naval museum ; and Chicago being rather far , we used it extensively in the making of our film .
12 What we are seeing them is an acknowledgement that the gallery system as we knew it early in the eighties , has really changed .
13 They were in the wrong , and they admitted it later in the day in one of those special P.G.A .
14 They surveyed it together in the dressing-table glass , heavy , thick stuff falling to her elbows , the colour of barley sugar .
15 In that instant , I brought up my branch , so that he caught it right in the face .
16 He ate it alone in the police canteen .
17 ‘ The defendant clearly did not see the bicycle because he hit it firmly in the rear , ’ Mr Reid said .
18 So many times he had padded across this bedroom to go to Abigail that he knew it perfectly in the dark , only requiring to hold his hands out before him and , like a blind man , feel the bevelled comer of the wardrobe , the lacquered wicker of a chair back , the top of the radiator , cold at this hour , the glass sphere of the door knob .
19 He sprinkled it freely in the gate opening and beyond in the passage , then turned to me .
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