Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cambridge liked undergraduates reading theology to have two years over the work and believed that if they tried to do it in fourteen months they would do it superficially , or else they would be sure to hurt themselves by overwork . |
| 2 | So Patsy tried dipping it in cold tea first . |
| 3 | We forgot to put it in last night anyway . |
| 4 | He had my note , but he kept putting it in safe places then forgetting where he 'd put it . |
| 5 | The elements may have seemed brutal to the documentary makers ( and some had roughed it in various parts of the world ) but to someone like Hannah who had experienced the winters of 1941 and 1962 that November was child 's play . |
| 6 | The others realised the error at precisely the same moment , and the subsequent racing back along the track towards each other could have been useful in Doctor Zhivago if someone had shot it in slow motion . |
| 7 | She had seen it in any case and she was not Sairellen Thackray who would look down her granite nose at him and sneer . |
| 8 | We felt that Navan Resources should have made earlier contact with us to let us know that there was gold here , before we had to hear it in that way , ’ Mary Catherine Heanue said . |
| 9 | He had watched it in early May , as the tiny breaking leaves spread a pinkish haze over the magnificent skeleton . |
| 10 | Some changes , however , were made in the draft to satisfy those who had challenged it in this way : union republics were given eleven rather than seven seats each in the Supreme Soviet 's Council of Nationalities and ex officio places on the Committee of Constitutional Supervision , and changes of wording were made in order to remove what Gorbachev described as the ‘ misunderstanding ’ that the rights of republics had been infringed . |
| 11 | And the mothers had to do it in those days , half a crown to do all the washing for this woman . |
| 12 | Leith , having popped along to her bedroom to take her hair out of the knot she had worn it in all day , was having serious thoughts about her actions — inviting him for a meal , for goodness ' sake ! |
| 13 | He had a soft face and a long white beard with red , yellow and blue bits at the end where he had dipped it in strange chemicals by mistake . |
| 14 | The boys heard the crash and they ran as fast as they could to get help from the police and ambulance , but when the police and ambulance got there they only found the boys ' fishing tackle where they had dumped it in such haste . |
| 15 | The metal-winged VH-BAF joined the Airworld Collection in 1988 , who continued to maintain it in airworthy condition . |
| 16 | Noting that Communists were either sharing power or had lost it in several countries , he promised Moscow would not interfere in the internal affairs of any east European nation , since it believed in the free right of all states to choose their own system . |
| 17 | Lowering the tender took care and patience if they wanted to keep it in one piece . |