Example sentences of "he [verb] it [adv prt] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knocked it back in one gulp . |
| 2 | He knocked it back in one and gasped with the pleasure of it . |
| 3 | Until he cut it down in later years , his run-up was extremely long — and his saunter back to his mark extremely slow — but the speed that it generated undoubtedly justified the length , and the grace of it all was an aesthetic delight . |
| 4 | Also , he 's supposed to have had an insurance policies but General Accident said it 's only for a year and he took it out in seventy seven to nineteen seventy eight . |
| 5 | You know he borrowed the hairbrush from me , he brought it back in this |
| 6 | I 've always owned apartments because I was born in a tenement in Glasgow and I like flat-life. , If he has one regret it is that government never saw fit to offer him another major job as challenging as his chairmanship of British Steel when he gave it up in 1976 . |