Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] it in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the politicians are looking for it in the wrong direction . |
| 2 | Ralph Meeker snapped an old man 's priceless Caruso record in half in Kiss Me Deadly , Richard Conte tortured Cornel Wilde by turning up a hearing aid and shouting into it in The Big Combo , Ingrid Bergman drank the poisoned Brazilian coffee in Notorious , Charles Laughton plunged down a lift shaft in The Big Clock , Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth shot it out in a hall of mirrors in Lady from Shanghai , Edmond O'Brien lurched into a police station to report his own murder in D.O.A. , Tony Curtis was brutally beaten by a corrupt cop in Sweet Smell of Success , Laurence Harvey jumped in the lake in The Manchurian Candidate . |
| 3 | The boy was holding a magnifying glass over a postcard and writing on it in the tiniest hand . |
| 4 | I seem to remember looking at it in the other one . |
| 5 | you 're not looking at it in the same way at all . |
| 6 | Dann turned the gun in his hands , still staring at it in the passing flares of street lighting . |
| 7 | Reading about it in the popular press is no substitute for the scrutiny that follows the disclosure required by technical journals . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been reading about it in the Veterinary Record and I 've cut out an article which deals with it . |
| 9 | Maybe , but I can also , if I like , talk to my car , but yelling at it in the approved Basil Fawlty manner is hardly treating it as rational . |
| 10 | It might be suggested that it is only through the presence of the frame that we recognize the work of art for what it is , perceiving it and responding to it in the appropriate way . |
| 11 | There is a kind of confidence , typified in the prayer to Christ the source of sweet honey-cells of devotion , which is at odds with the stark mood provoked by a revulsion from sin in the whole piece and which is very different from the whole thrust of the short version : The profound realisation of Jesus as a source of grace at the heart of this passage in the long version colours the meditator 's longing for it in the other expanded meditations that open out of this sequence of prayers . |
| 12 | The emerging Turkish foreign ministry , a case in point , had about 200 salaried officials working in it in the early 1870s , at the end of the Tanzimat period of attempted administrative and legal reform . |