Example sentences of "[verb] it in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Aside from the fact that he does n't actually discuss it in any detail , there is little more than a disappointed huffing and puffing at the exhaustion of the avant-garde 's shock value ( backed up by a particularly crass quotation from Peter Bürger about Duchamp 's readymades ) and some utterly routine panting over the outlandish prices being currently paid for Van Goghs — plus a quotation from a sub-Warholian Manhattan ‘ artist ’ answering an art magazine questionnaire with a few smart remarks about business and producing art for the market . |
| 32 | And you you you have to sort of attack it in that way . |
| 33 | ‘ Well , I 've modified it in this way . |
| 34 | Why not come out arid say it in this day and age , she muttered to herself as she dialled the number . |
| 35 | Martial law , in force since the Feb. 23 military coup [ see p. 38003-04 ] , was lifted in most areas of the country on May 3 , although the interim government retained it in 21 sensitive border provinces and districts . |
| 36 | ‘ Now fetch me some towelling , wet it in that bowl of water and hand it to me … ’ |
| 37 | Prudential has poured more than $1 billion into Pru-Bache since acquiring it in 1981 . |
| 38 | Epstein had one of the most important collections of African and Oceanic sculpture ever assembled in this country and introduced a number of contemporaries to non-European art ; most recent scholarship puts the beginning of his collecting activity in 1912 when it is documented but Gardiner places it in 1904 , ( i.e. before Derain and Picasso ) when Epstein was a penniless student in Paris . |
| 39 | Others counselled against introducing a general requirement of this kind , but suggested the Law Society should nevertheless have the power to impose it in appropriate cases . |
| 40 | I blame both local councillors in Scotland and Scottish Members of Parliament , from both sides of the House , who were stupid enough to allow revaluation in Scotland to continue after the English stopped it in 1973 . |
| 41 | While this is not universally true — there are exceptions on record — it is true often enough that sociolinguists expect to find it in each new situation they study . |
| 42 | Syllabic is perhaps the most noticeable example of the English syllabic consonant , though it would be wrong to expect to find it in all accents . |
| 43 | Neither of them seems to find it in any way remarkable . |
| 44 | They had been lucky to find it in this hilly and heavily forested terrain . |
| 45 | From what Morse said it looks as though he was trying to flog it in some under-the-counter deal , but I do n't see how it helps us . ’ |
| 46 | You can brown it in hot fat beforehand if you really want to . |
| 47 | Next time I was doing a partial water change , I decided to investigate further , and took the piece of coral , complete with mushroom polyps , out of the tank , and working quickly to avoid damaging the polyps , cracked it in half with a cold chisel . |
| 48 | Indeed , having been brought up after the war and having heard of the plight of those poor people , one has never forgotten it in any case . |
| 49 | Gedge drafted a letter , Gregory rewrote it in grammatical ( and gracious ) English , and Solowka produced a final copy in his neatest handwriting . |
| 50 | ‘ Going all autocratic and impatient wo n't drum it in any quicker . ’ |
| 51 | If y you know if you 're content to , to pocket five hundred pounds , they 'll never be able to discover it in fifteen thousand . |
| 52 | It was what , I used today , they used it in all hospitals . |
| 53 | He used it in encouraging teachers to give children the freedom to discover themselves . |
| 54 | Sometimes a descendant has resurrected the bookplate of an ancestor and used it in later books , if necessary cutting off the original name . |
| 55 | At least two of the staff never used it in this way ( considering it more suitable as a library book ) . |
| 56 | The plants are trained up a string which is zig-zagged up and down to train it in one place . |
| 57 | Alice quickly took the key and tried it in all the doors , but oh dear ! |
| 58 | Here are some examples : What if you … used triangular paper ? tried it in three dimensions ? plotted a graph ? tried a simple case first ? shared your results with someone else ? tried fractions or decimals or negative numbers ? |
| 59 | Flip the lid and down it in one , like an oyster . |
| 60 | The offence was grievous and innocent , I drove the wrong way round a roundabout , which sounds appalling but there was not a single other car in sight to , in a sense to steer by so to speak , erm but there was one policeman , and he stopped me , and he fined me , and I had to search for my purse , which I had well hidden , this being Italy , erm underneath all the bedding and the tents and the cooking pots , found it in due course , presented him very shakily with these thousand lire or whatever it was he wanted , and , and this is really the point , drove off very shakily too . |