Example sentences of "[v-ing] it in a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill cuts through the line after grabbing at thin air and landing it in an arbitrary process . |
| 2 | It worries the lawyers , and the insurance company were always fussing about keeping it in a private house . |
| 3 | In 1868 and 1879 the two ‘ Torrens Acts ’ made the owner of a house responsible for keeping it in a habitable condition , and gave powers of compulsion to the local authority . |
| 4 | Right : Protect your outdoor pool from the rigours of winter by enclosing it in a Norwegian log chalet . |
| 5 | I took the other half , inspecting it in a similar manner . |
| 6 | An adult , by itself , will be hard-pressed to repel a determined attack on its young , but in a massed colony , outraged parents join together and surround an intruder in a cloud , shrieking angrily , diving on it and harrying it in a continuous attack . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , she set about searching it in a methodical fashion , discovering in the process just what she had expected : nothing . |
| 8 | Anyway a plant , we think , for bigger gardens but if you can get away with growing it in a small space where cutting it back by all means do because it is quite a pretty thing . |
| 9 | The writer of the previous essay plan has demonstrated advanced skills by selecting the information or facts relevant to the question and presenting it in a logical argument . |
| 10 | Manipulations can vary from simple windowing of the video , presenting it in a small area of the screen , to sophisticated visual processing to produce the spectacular special effects familiar from broadcast television . |
| 11 | She added that the festival had been attended by more people than ever before , and that by celebrating it in a smaller town , away from the more sophisticated attractions of Bogotá , the festival had a more genuine , grassroots character . |
| 12 | When they measure your speed , they 're measuring your velocity really , they 're measuring it in a particular direction , along that road . |
| 13 | and I need to ensure that this experience erm well I I need to make sure that I will be evaluating it in a similar way as I went along . |
| 14 | The argument is clearest in its application to the theatre : recall Harsnett 's view that the theatre was a zone of pollution and licence , one capable of being managed by locating it in a designated place on the social periphery . |
| 15 | I kept examining it in a fond fever ) . |
| 16 | And we 're doing it in a second time . |
| 17 | ‘ By doing this , we 're simplifying the process of using a spreadsheet , and doing it in a consistent way . |
| 18 | Fiona and Fergus were making the bed , but doing it in a funny sort of way ; the bottom sheet had been doubled up half-way down the bed . |
| 19 | It just happened that I was doing it in a unique way through the business world of women . |
| 20 | I know when Carl was , was doing it in a modest way and he , he 'd seen this on , and he said it 's impossible that the way they do it ! |
| 21 | They 're talking about going with us certainly , but they 're doing it in a positive way because they see what the future is . |
| 22 | The Badlands spirit is swelling — catch this wave now , but do n't think about doing it in a Fat Willys T-shirt . |
| 23 | Maggie saw Lawler out , then returned to her tea , finishing it in a single swallow . |
| 24 | ‘ We have spent a lot of time explaining it and we think people are approaching it in an open way . ’ |
| 25 | If , for instance , the nurse is to develop a range of counselling skills there seems little point in her learning it in a theoretical sense . |
| 26 | We took the semi-rigid rubber boat and went south towards Dawson Island , finally beaching it in a little cove of black sand and gravel on the shore of the Brunswick Peninsula just before the dog-leg that took the Strait north-west through miles of narrow channels to the Pacific . |
| 27 | She remembered Doc Threadneedle suggesting she try sucking her finger and sticking it in an electric socket . |
| 28 | ‘ Nowadays somebody who uses the word nigger is seen as racist , whereas Biggles is using it in a neutral sense that 's no longer there . ’ |
| 29 | If you try to make life complicated for yourself by using the wrong tool or handling it in an inappropriate fashion then the result is solely your responsibility . |
| 30 | So we 're showing it in a peaceful way because in the end of course we can destroy by the ballot and not the bullet . |