Example sentences of "[subord] [noun prp] [verb] it in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brideshead Revisited ( 1945 ) is a prime example , and , although Waugh wrote it in a spirit of retrospection , he also added in a preface of 1959 , ‘ It was impossible to foresee , in the Spring of 1944 , the present cult of the English country house . ’ |
| 2 | And if Robin gets it in the neck I shall get it in the neck and I shall be getting it in the neck because of you ! |
| 3 | We know that Stein had designed an escapement action by 1777 because Mozart describes it in a letter of that year . |
| 4 | As Shevardnadze put it in a speech to foreign ministry staff in 1987 , they represented a country which for the previous fifteen years had been ‘ more and more losing its position as one of the leading industrially developed countries ’ . |
| 5 | The music is lost , but Cavalieri 's contemporaries agree that it was he who , as Peri put it in the preface to his Euridice ( 1600 ) , ‘ before anyone else made our music ’ ( i.e. the ‘ nuova maniera di canto ’ ) ‘ heard on the stage ’ . |
| 6 | As Leonard expressed it in the poem which — in title and texture counterbalances the title of the book : |
| 7 | But you ca n't argue with the propulsion of ‘ No Hard Shoulder To Cry On ’ , the inventiveness of ‘ Slow Rider ’ and the odyssey inscribed in ‘ Safe Surfer ’ ( though you do worry when Cope loses it in the mid-section ) . |
| 8 | As Khrushchev camped it in a georgette gown . |
| 9 | As Palmerston put it in the mid-19th century , ministers , especially the Prime Minister , must be able to defend themselves in Parliament daily , ‘ and in order to do this they must be minutely acquainted with all the details of the business of their offices , and the only way of being constantly armed with such information is to conduct and direct those details themselves ’ . |
| 10 | As Bauer put it in a recent BBC television discussion of covert recognition , ‘ Our normal experience of perception , of seeing objects or faces as an all or none process , is a trick that the brain plays on us ’ . |
| 11 | As Wesley put it in an age stylistically more austere than that of Lyly : Style is the dress of thought ; a modest dress , Neat , but not gaudy , will true critics please . |
| 12 | As Crombach puts it in the foreword to Irvine and Berry ( 1981 ) ‘ the progress is as much in the psychology of the investigators as in the investigations being reported ’ . |