Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] in [pos pn] [noun sg] " 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 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 .
4 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 .
5 And it gets stuck in your eye and you go , you go ah !
6 Sometimes it just rushed round things ; other times it flattened all in its path then picked up the debris and flung it away .
7 She allowed it to be taken , and it grew warm in his grasp .
8 well it went all in me lap
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