Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] it in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shoreditch eventually found it in a dictionary of American slang : ‘ A horse who wins a race by prearrangement ; a person , team , candidate , etc , who will or did win easily . ’ |
| 2 | The generally massive expansion in financial services , the ‘ Big Bang ’ , the LDDC 's location close to the City , £400 million of public-sector support in the first five years of existence and its extensive powers to acquire land , all placed it in an exceptionally favourable situation . |
| 3 | Which is sold everywhere today , you could only buy it in a chemist shop , tea . |
| 4 | But as Celia says , the trouble is that so many people , they will only buy it in a year . |
| 5 | ‘ If the weather 's dry and if you do n't mind how you treat your car — or maybe you could only do it in a jeep , I 've never tried it . |
| 6 | Green is a restful colour , so put it in a room where you want to relax |
| 7 | You only spread it in a square no bigger than the width of the roller . |
| 8 | But these were risky gains : with little animal manure and no capital , the peasant broke up more land than he could use , only to abandon it in a drought or when prices fell . |
| 9 | Might have been my idea — well , it was , but I only said it in a fit of temper ! — but she carried it out . |
| 10 | So it was a gun that was only , you 'd only find it in a building ? |
| 11 | You do n't take me up on anything — you just repeat it in a different order . |
| 12 | He could quite easily accomplish it in a public place of that sort because everyone 's attention is drawn away from the area where you were sitting . |
| 13 | Just place it in an envelope and send it to the FREEPOST address provided . |
| 14 | As I lay on O 's chest something moved me to snap the locket open , and I remember I asked , who is that ? thinking maybe this was the solution to the mystery , and he said , in the same voice that he talked with later in the night , a sleepwalker 's voice , without taking his eyes off the ceiling he said , I do n't know ; I just found it in a magazine . |
| 15 | just done it in a project . |
| 16 | Otherwise I will just do it in a different colour , a different |
| 17 | These fall back to earth as soft , squishy pancakes which pile up closely round the vent , soon enclosing it in a kind of chimney or hornito . |
| 18 | just put it in a bag for you . |
| 19 | Aye , so she says I do n't think I 'll bother I just put it in a bargain |
| 20 | And if you just put it in a slightly more formal way on radio , that 's what you 're doing is , you 're not shifting the buck , you 're answering the question , you 're just , you 're giving yourself a bit of leeway . |
| 21 | You will have seen , with as much surprise as pleasure , a child of nine play the harpsichord like the great masters ; & what will have astonished you even more was to hear from trustworthy persons that he already played it in a superior manner three years ago ; to know that almost everything he plays is of his own composition ; to have found in all his pieces , and even in his improvisations , that character of force which is the stamp of genius , that variety which proclaims the fire of imagination & that charm which proves an assured taste ; and lastly , to have seen him perform the most difficult pieces with an ease and a facility that would be surprising even in a musician of thirty … . |
| 22 | He wielded it self-consciously , as though he had never owned one before and had just bought it in a Harrods sale . |
| 23 | The Stag is not a sports car , nor is it especially fast : any modern GTi hatchback will comfortably outpace it in a sprint from rest to 60mph . |
| 24 | He 'd much sooner keep it in an old pair of tights . ’ |
| 25 | Okay now she 's off really quickly on a reach but she 's oversheeted , she 's got too much power there , she 's sheeting the sail in instead of easing it out until it flaps and then just pulling it in a little . |
| 26 | Could just see it in a Trivial Pursuit question |
| 27 | As constant access is needed to the board , it is probably better not to put it in a box . |
| 28 | But she was still smiling at me , so I just tied it in a knot and left it . |
| 29 | Mr Phelan is referring to my promise to read the Bible at a rate of five chapters a day , thus finishing it in a year . |
| 30 | You can also recover all SMP paid in previous months in the same tax year if you have not recovered it in an earlier month . |