Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] it in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On her way out Mrs Bradshaw again suggested that I phone the police , and I promised to think about it in the morning . |
| 2 | When the council threatened to raise the rents some of the local men started arguing about it in a local pub . |
| 3 | She had thought about it in the dark hours of the night . |
| 4 | Nevertheless he did not base his decision upon section 25 , but held that the sellers ' lien was defeated because the sellers , who knew in advance of the sub-sale , had assented to it in a way that indicated their intention to forego the lien . |
| 5 | Institutionally it was shaken almost to pieces , and certainly out of the torpor that had descended upon it in the long aftermath of the Counter Reformation and the seventeenth-century wars of religion , by the reverberations of the Revolution with their deeply anti-religious and anti-traditional note . |
| 6 | How lovely it would be to find the garden , and see what had happened to it in the last ten years ! |
| 7 | ICI had worked on it in an attempt to make motor fuel from coal , a project with which Fawcett had been involved . |
| 8 | I stood looking at it in the darkness , just aware of its bulk in the feeble light of a broken moon , and I thought it looked even bigger than it really was , like a stone-giant 's head , a huge moonlit skull full of shapes and memories , staring out to sea and attached to a vast , powerful body buried in the rock and sand beneath , ready to shrug itself free and disinter itself on some unknowable command or cue . |