Example sentences of "and [vb past] it in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was quite a long passage for us , but we were lucky with the weather and made it in one leg . |
| 2 | He stirred a pot of paint , dipped a brush in the paint , bent forward and applied it in slow strokes to the sheet of card in front of him . |
| 3 | This group were aware of the injury and described it in neutral terms of sensation . |
| 4 | Sometimes a descendant has resurrected the bookplate of an ancestor and used it in later books , if necessary cutting off the original name . |
| 5 | He could mend any broken toy , and make things too — I remember he made a great big rocking-horse for Hilary , and painted it in all sorts of marvellous colours . |
| 6 | She made coffee in a dented silver pot and served it in dark-green cups with gold rims and gold handles , cups she 'd stolen from home . |
| 7 | Sister Cooney stood and watched it in mild amusement , before turning and walking thoughtfully inside . |
| 8 | Casually it beat the fish into stillness on the branch and swallowed it in one gulp . |
| 9 | Cadfael stooped and took it in both hands , and lifted it , and it parted from its setting without trailing a blade of grass or a torn edge of moss . |
| 10 | He reached for the case and took it in both hands . |
| 11 | The other crew members all felt the same and said it in different ways . |
| 12 | And had it in any case anything to do with Francis Garland being shot through the head ? |
| 13 | This consolidated the legislation of the previous half century concerning the treatment of children by the law in both criminal and civil cases , and extended it in important ways . |
| 14 | " It 's just a trick , really , it 's easy , " said Clara , and she took back the egg , and found that she could not put it together again either , so they decided to abandon it , and left it in little pieces in a glass dish on the mantelpiece with some dry and coloured gourds , and then they went downstairs and out into the park , and walked towards the bus stop , and Clara explained , lest the gourds and the egg should be thought to reflect in any way on herself , that they had been given to her by a friend the week before , to celebrate her twenty-second birthday . |
| 15 | We found that a number of enterprises had defined this model and published it in internal documents for managers . |
| 16 | The coroner smiled at the wine , lifted the cup and downed it in one gulp . |
| 17 | I 've spotted it in lots of people and suspected it in most others . |