Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] it in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , he is still obsessed with wood and eating it in the park . |
| 2 | ‘ There , ’ he said , claiming her achievement as his own and inflating it in the process . |
| 3 | He climbed to the upper level , and from the top of the stairs he could see a wide slice of moonlight telling him that he 'd not only forgotten to lock the door behind them , in his haste he 'd neglected even to close it ; he crossed the decking and closed it now , switching the key from the outside to the inside and turning it in the lock . |
| 4 | The plaintiff , by going to Eastbourne , obtaining the money , and remitting it in the manner suggested , made it a binding contract on the part of Mr. Kennard that he would not serve the bankruptcy notice . ’ |
| 5 | And here is the miracle wrought of changing mental thought into the material and enshrining it in the chemistry of the body for ever . |
| 6 | The mass rally in Florence by the Christian Democrats — who are increasing their support in the south and losing it in the north — to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the start of the Christian Democrat movement , and the appeal to ‘ trust those who know how to govern ’ , seemed curiously old-fashioned and out of key . |
| 7 | He begins without ceremony by pulling off the blouse and flinging it in the gully . |
| 8 | It made me think of a Bedouin taking out his prayer carpet and unrolling it in the vastness of the desert . |
| 9 | We talked earlier about reading a press release through and saying , ‘ So what ? ’ and dropping it in the bin . |
| 10 | The scientific approach to the world of nature developed as a way of looking to see what was actually there and interpreting it in the light of its own evidence instead of simply accepting received , traditional wisdom . |
| 11 | But it needs to be borne in mind that such connections are not an automatic or necessary consequence of the formal structure of the poetry ; they are the result of the reader 's bringing his own sensibility and experience to bear on the text , and interpreting it in the light of his own conscious or unconscious idea of the nature and function of literature . |
| 12 | and putting it in the leg . |
| 13 | But John Wainfleet would only confess to taking Sean 's knife and putting it in the pond as a joke . |
| 14 | He 's saving three pounds a week and putting it in the post office at hoe . |
| 15 | ‘ If they keep their bikes in garages , they should consider removing a wheel and putting it in the house . |
| 16 | Picking up rubbish and placing it in the bin is one small step in an ever-growing waste crisis . |
| 17 | I helped this along by taking some Flocor from an established filter and placing it in the vat filter . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's the severing of the head and placing it in the font which is so brutal , is n't it ? |
| 19 | This can become a real problem unless the situation is handled cautiously , because simply lifting the dog up and placing it in the car will be counter-productive . |
| 20 | ‘ Well ’ Peggy drained her glass before walking to the table and placing it in the tray , and her back to her mother , she , said , ‘ When one is an executive one must act like an executive , must n't one ? ’ |
| 21 | Although I keep pulling it up and throwing it in the dustbin , it keeps coming back . |
| 22 | Instead of taking it out to the back and throwing it in the bin . |
| 23 | Livid with rage , he grabs their cameras and rips the film from them , tearing it to shreds and throwing it in the fire . |
| 24 | The additional term may be obtained by substituting the vector potential for B in eqn ( 4.3 ) : unc and rearranging it in the form |
| 25 | Escaping is bad enough but doing it in the middle of the night is inexcusable . |