Example sentences of "[vb past] it in [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This defence caused some difficulty for the Court of Appeal when two cases raised it in quick succession in the summer and autumn of 1988 . |
| 2 | Gerald Brennan , writing just two or three years after the war , says in The Face of Spain that the slow hand-clap to attract the attention of waiters had died out , but I heard it in several places in the north . |
| 3 | This is no fiction , but a report from the Daily Telegraph of 1864 which so impressed itself upon Ruskin that he reprinted it in red type in Sesame and Lilies : ‘ Be sure , the facts themselves are written in that colour , in a book which we shall all of us , literate or illiterate , have to read our page of , some day . ’ |
| 4 | One saw it in extreme form in the 1960s , with Alan Sharp and Archie Hind , and in a quiet way with William McIlvanney . |
| 5 | " It 's just a trick , really , it 's easy , " said Clara , and she took back the egg , and found that she could not put it together again either , so they decided to abandon it , and left it in little pieces in a glass dish on the mantelpiece with some dry and coloured gourds , and then they went downstairs and out into the park , and walked towards the bus stop , and Clara explained , lest the gourds and the egg should be thought to reflect in any way on herself , that they had been given to her by a friend the week before , to celebrate her twenty-second birthday . |