Example sentences of "and [vb past] it in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She hoped he would approve of her smart black dress and the way she had pulled her hair back from her face and pinned it in a classical knot at the back of her head . |
| 2 | She took off everything that could identify her , and stowed it in the bottom layer of her jewellery box . |
| 3 | He felt for Thomas 's hand and wrung it in the momentary blindness after the torch was quenched against the rock . |
| 4 | He won East Bristol in 1900 and retained it in the general elections of 1906 and 1910 . |
| 5 | I drove it straight round the corner and installed it in a costly carpark on Lexington and Forty-Third . |
| 6 | He had brought his telescope ashore with him and mounted it in the little dormer window high up under the eaves of the steep-pitched east-facing gable of his house . |
| 7 | As they longed for a spiritual assurance of Christ 's presence and received it in the Holy Spirit which literally inspired in them knowledge and love of God so the meditator may grow in inner spiritual knowledge ( c.33 , 36 ) . |
| 8 | Later on Marcus came in , took a bag from inside the noise-maker and dropped it in a large crackling black bag . |
| 9 | He lifted it up and dropped it in the white plastic bag which lines the litter bin . |
| 10 | Once they took one away from the woodpile and hid it in the stable and the mother searched everywhere , growing more and more distressed . |
| 11 | She could n't abide the thought of it , sitting there grinning , it gave her bad dreams she said , so she took it one morning and hid it in the stable loft . |
| 12 | He screwed the note up and threw it in the general direction of the wastepaper basket . |
| 13 | Ever since 1986 , when the Wyoming Game and Fish Department took the last black-footed ferret from the wild and placed it in a captive-breeding programme , the intention has been to reintroduce the species to the prairies of Wyoming as soon as enough individuals had been bred . |
| 14 | So I used a large plastic storage box , and filled it with rooted but loose watercress and placed it in the main pool fed by the return flow from a gravity-fed filter . |
| 15 | He heard Lady whine her disappointment as the taller , quicker dog snapped another piece of Frankie 's sandwich from the air and swallowed it in a single gulp . |
| 16 | However , now we have remade that table top and re-finished it in a different way I am much more certain about what had , until now , been an instinctive feeling . |
| 17 | Parliament never voted enough money for a naval war with the Netherlands to be decisively successful , so the most substantial result of the anti-Dutch policy was that in 1664 the English seized New Amsterdam , and kept it in the 1668 peace negotiations by handing over in exchange the English colony of Surinam in Guiana . |
| 18 | The other Rex took a slug of Old Bedwetter and spat it in a flaming plume at the both of them . |
| 19 | Increasingly , the authorities became concerned about the adverse effects of this trend and viewed it in a dimmer light . |
| 20 | The gentle breeze managed to cool down the heat of the sun a little but sustained the dust raised by the passing vehicles and deposited it in a thin film on the white tablecloths and the empty seats of the outdoor café . |
| 21 | The Japanese translator of the English book seems to have recovered the original Japanese text ( written in Classical Japanese ) and quoted it in the Japanese translation . |
| 22 | I always cleaned the stove after use and wrapped it in a tough plastic bag . |
| 23 | Then , after the old guy has examined , weighed and wrapped it in a turquoise napkin , we get our gold , in little ingots the size of collar studs . |
| 24 | He pulled the local daily paper from under his arm and brandished it in the blue air as if it were a short sword . |
| 25 | The Scots , who led 12-3 overnight , needed only one more point to secure overall victory and clinched it in the first match to finish yesterday when Jim Muir beat Mike Marsden in straight sets . |