Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] it in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bert Burnell sees it in the number of passengers travelling on each of his routes . |
| 2 | The captain of the Rebecca Sims described it in the ship 's log as a brownish-grey reptile at least 45 metres long . |
| 3 | As David Lodge put it in the first issue of The Birmingham Magazine : |
| 4 | If that is how Cardiff High School was when Goronwy Rees knew it in the year of my birth , then it was not very different eleven years later . |
| 5 | Viscount Dunedin expressed it in the following words : |
| 6 | Tom knight sees it in the occupancy levels in his hotels . |
| 7 | Mr Karim said : ‘ After being served with a writ , Mr Lamb threw it in the dustbin . |
| 8 | Mrs Wright put it in the vase that she 'd filled with fresh water . |
| 9 | Those schools allocated to use the SAM project taught it in the early part of the second school year ( November 1988 to February 1989 ) and the first follow up study was conducted in March 1989 . |
| 10 | As Arthur Koestler put it in The Act of Creation : |
| 11 | Their work was still circulating in the 1940s when Simone de Beauvoir criticised it in The Second Sex ( 1949 ) . |
| 12 | Sandy Selhurst sees it in the shelf-space her product is getting across the region . |
| 13 | In particular , a decision on the meaning of a word or phrase in a standard form commercial agreement will generally be followed because , as Lord Denning put it in The Annefield [ 1971 ] P 168 , " Once a court has put a construction on a standard form , commercial men act upon it . |
| 14 | Lord Cardigan found it in the Balkans where proper roads petered out and pot-hole dodging enlivened the journey . |
| 15 | News of the black snow did not leak out until Scots journalist George Rosie reported it in the Sunday Times on 19 September . |
| 16 | This particular guitar is a bit of a video star ; Dave Stewart used it in the promo for The Eurythmics ' The City Never Sleeps . |
| 17 | Bowhill , much as Sir Walter Scott saw it in the ‘ Lay of the Last Minstrel ’ is there for all to enjoy . |
| 18 | As Sir John Simon put it in the Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the City of London 1849–50 , ‘ It is no uncommon thing , in a room of twelve foot square or less , to find three or four families styed together … in the promiscuous intimacy of cattle . ’ |
| 19 | James Bond gets it in the neck from Korean goon Oddjob |
| 20 | As Thomas Becon put it in the sixteenth century , it was a ‘ duty of children ’ whose parents were ‘ aged and fallen into poverty , so that they are not able to live of themselves , or to get their living by their own industry and labour ’ , to work and care for them and ‘ provide necessaries for them , ‘ just as in their own childhoods ‘ their parents cared and provided for them . ’ |
| 21 | The teaching of deaf children by oral methods alone was not new ; the earliest teachers of the deaf such as Dr. William Holder and Dr. John Wallis tried it in the 1660s with ( as evidence shows ) far less success than they wrote about in the publications which earned them fame . |
| 22 | John Moncur put it in the back of the net . |
| 23 | As Michael Benton puts it in The Importance of Poetry in Children 's Learning : ‘ The development of a methodology that is based upon informed concepts of reading and response rather than upon conventional , narrowly-conceived ideas of comprehension and criticism is now the priority ’ ( p. 150 ) . |