Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] it in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The others will come looking for it in the morning , ’ Grimma warned . |
| 2 | ‘ The newsboys were shouting about it in the street , ’ |
| 3 | Why , he was boasting about it in the prop-room . |
| 4 | I stood looking at it in the darkness , just aware of its bulk in the feeble light of a broken moon , and I thought it looked even bigger than it really was , like a stone-giant 's head , a huge moonlit skull full of shapes and memories , staring out to sea and attached to a vast , powerful body buried in the rock and sand beneath , ready to shrug itself free and disinter itself on some unknowable command or cue . |
| 5 | In the long term we 'd like to go on , and build a workshop , make our own recycle refurbish electrical goods , because , obviously , this is something a bit more in capital intensive , and it 's something we 're looking at it in the future . |
| 6 | Given that Scotland has little going for it in the way of geography , nothing special in the natural resources department compared with the seriously oil-rich countries and now a minimal industrial base , he argues that the asset in which we have consistently under-invested is our people . |
| 7 | One day I was browsing through it in the shop . |
| 8 | The librarian handed it to Roland Michell , who was sitting waiting for it in the Reading Room of the London Library . |
| 9 | Next day Gabriel took the form of a monk and returned to the tree ; this time he found all three brothers lying under it in the shade and talking together , while the white blossom fell on them like snow . |
| 10 | But do n't you worry , eh ? , you 'll be going across it in the dark . ’ |
| 11 | Well I 'm finishing me tape she 's coming for it in the morning . |
| 12 | They 'll be reading about it in the paper then , trying to find out , spreading the word , and you know every every time someone drove past the picket line , there was a bit of bad publicity for the quarries and helpful for us . |
| 13 | Farmers produce between five and six million tonnes of surplus straw a year — with the ban on stubble-burning , they 're going to be spending alot more of their time dealing with it in the future . |
| 14 | He writes : ‘ If we are pressed to see in the doctrine of the Trinity some clue to the sense that gender … must have something corresponding to it in the God-head , one would find in the unconditioned Unity of God something like the feminine in creation , while the differentiated Persons , on the other hand , have each a masculine denomination . ’ |
| 15 | The thing is , the thing is , the thing is I can see where everyone 's coming from , but it 's , it 's thinking about it in the future , |
| 16 | Anyway , I have no access to it , and have to cart metres of black metal piping back from the town and sweat and labour over it , bending it and cutting it and boring it and crimping it and bending it again , straining with it in the vice until the bench and shed creak with my efforts . |
| 17 | There 'll be plenty of atmosphere , even just flogging round it in the cloud , ’ we agreed , pulling into the clammy , deserted car park at Pen y Pas with hearts in boots . ’ |
| 18 | The filling mechanism is broken and there was much sighing over it in the pen shop . |