Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] in [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I did circulate a brief note to everyone before Christmas because it became clear in our autumn debrief meeting that there was some confusion about suggestion forms , and whet . |
2 | British Aerospace has to reach world standards of productivity and efficiency , as it made clear in its press release . |
3 | Erm actually it 's about the same , but it looks better in my accounts . |
4 | Blyth had taken off the hollow plastic leg and left it lying tangled in its straps and the long grass blades . |
5 | And it cuts right in my fingers . |
6 | When it ended in the mid 1960s , to be replaced in quick succession by sociology , anthropology , and linguistic theory , it turned introspective in its defeat , wasting its energies on the grimly unavailing task of seeking , and never finding , a theoretical basis for what it did or had once done . |
7 | It gets political in its indictment of the corrupt railroad — it ‘ leaves two shiny , slimy tracks like a snail ’ — that is the representation of a rapaciously capitalist civilisation , and dares to traduce Fonda , Monument Valley and sundry rather icons of the Ford universe . |
8 | And it gets stuck in your eye and you go , you go ah ! |
9 | The whole system is believed to be surrounded by streamers and shells of gas , and if seen from close range would be truly fascinating , though from its distance of 300 light-years it appears single in our telescopes . |
10 | As they reached the front door , it flew open in their faces . |
11 | It seems alive in my hands . |
12 | As honourable members will recall , Sir Thomas was persuaded to this view by in part a conclusion of the treasurer and civil service select committee , that although the existing permissive nature of section forty seven had worked well it seems desirable in his words , to tighten the wording of the act so that there can be no doubt , either from the point of view of the auditor , his client or the regulator , as to the auditor 's duty to report . |
13 | Sometimes it just rushed round things ; other times it flattened all in its path then picked up the debris and flung it away . |
14 | She allowed it to be taken , and it grew warm in his grasp . |
15 | well it went all in me lap |
16 | The Netherlands had been happy to accept the supranational principle in advance , but insisted on retaining the right to withdraw from the discussions should it prove impossible in its eyes for the ideas to be turned into economic practice . |