Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [adv] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two small boys ran from the damp gloom of a back close , closely pursued by a third , who raced after them , swinging something over his head , then hurling it high in the air . |
| 2 | While you 've been living it up in the lap of luxury — ’ |
| 3 | A second very late gene , p10 , which is responsible for the synthesis of a non-structural protein , has been successfully utilized to express foreign proteins either by replacing the resident p10 gene ( 5 , 6 ) or by duplicating the p10 promoter and inserting it elsewhere in the AcNPV genome , eg , in proximity to the ph gene site ( 4 ) . |
| 4 | The writer , on the contrary , may look over what he has already written , pause between each word with no fear of his interlocutor interrupting him , take his time in choosing a particular word , even looking it up in the dictionary if necessary , check his progress with his notes , reorder what he has written , and even change his mind about what he wants to say . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll bring th'some fresh , ’ she said , pouring it back in the jug . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's for unfreezing car locks , ’ said Robyn , hastily stowing it away in the glove compartment . |
| 7 | What about having it outside in the shade ? |
| 8 | The main shape of the landscape — mountains , rolling hills , and flat plains — is based on the geological rock formations , but has been severely modified by the movement of glaciers which carried vast quantities of rock , grinding it down in the process , depositing it in the form of boulders , gravel , sand , and silt , often many miles from its original outcrop . |
| 9 | ‘ We shall be viewing it later in the week , by kind consent of the owner , ’ Sir Thomas continued , ignoring this contribution . |
| 10 | And that 's not really opera , it 's theatre , musical theatre , and we 're experimenting quite considerably with the theatre in that case and doing it almost in the round . |
| 11 | I saw you doing it yesterday in the kitchen . ’ |
| 12 | Dad paid over the four shillings and while he was entering it up in the book said , ‘ Mr Priest , I was wondering if yer could give me permission to build a small wooden shed facing the house ? ’ |
| 13 | And when we remember what Eliot did with the gibe , taking it over in the title of Old Possum 's Book of Practical Cats , that collection of whimsical fireside charades in verse , we may well think again about Auden 's comment that in English family life ‘ it is becoming to entertain each other with witty remarks , hoaxes , family games and jokes ’ . |
| 14 | her new neighbour from next door came out to give us a hand he was off taking it back in the house again ! |
| 15 | Now if you 'd got grudge against the bloke who was taking it off in the shop , in the farmyard , after when you got back home , of course you had to come I mean they did n't stick it in the field , like they do now . |
| 16 | Amdahl Corp believes that its Huron applications development and production system is a winner , and rather than leave it stranded on the mainframe under MVS , it is taking it along in the direction the market is moving with two new versions , one that runs under its UTS implementation of Unix System V on its mainframes , the other for Unix workstations , the first version of the latter being for 80486-based machines under Unix . |
| 17 | Lāla Bahādur started to play with its stringy tail — twirling it round in the air , twisting and tugging it back from the socket — trying to provoke a reaction that would jar it to life . |
| 18 | Keep your foot flexed and start slowly circling your right leg , at the same time bringing it up in the air . |
| 19 | But he was a proper But it was in his back yard , he was killing it and hanging it up in the window there . |
| 20 | She walked into the flat , and shrugged wearily out of her jacket , hanging it up in the closet . |
| 21 | The stock car racing proved to be a huge success with the top nine fighting it out in the final . |
| 22 | they 're putting it down in the paper that |
| 23 | ‘ Nice one , Greg ! ’ chortles the yellow shirt , folding a bra and putting it back in the drawer . |
| 24 | This has the value of removing prophecy from the realm of the mysterious and placing it firmly in the practical . |
| 25 | Remembering her host 's clever trick of the night before , she had made a sandwich of the remaining ham and wrapped it carefully in one of her pocket handkerchiefs , placing it securely in the pocket of her pelisse . |
| 26 | One of the humans reached down gingerly and picked up the box , lifting it up in the air as though Masklin was something very rare and delicate . |
| 27 | The transaction seems to embarrass him because he insists on carrying it out in the corridor out of sight of his secretary , whose fluffy blue feet have just slipped and slid back through the door of his office . |
| 28 | So I am just throwing it out in the air , I do n't think it 's that s |
| 29 | ‘ If I were coining it down in the bull market , ’ I reminded him , ‘ and you were my oldest friend and out of work and you came up with two corking girls like that , I 'd be honoured to pay the bill . ’ |
| 30 | The rug should then be carefully and systematically dried , making sure that there are no pockets of dampness in either the foundation or pile , by leaving it out in the sun and then methodically going over the entire area , both back and front , with a hand-held hair dryer . |