Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] it in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An impromptu purchase , and a bit extravagant , but remaining tidily or prettily dressed is an important investment in job search , marriage and social life , so I try only to slum it in track suit at weekends and totally quiet evenings at home . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the real value of land is constant ; and capital invested in it will not deteriorate with inflation ; in the long term the purchase of a smallholding even at inflated prices , can make sense if the buyer can hold back enough to put it in order , and stock and equip it . |
| 3 | If a wheel starts to spin , the brake attached to it squeezes just enough to keep it in check while the engine throttles back . |
| 4 | The mirror is placed onto the fixed clips , pushed back against the wall , and the sliding clips are pushed in to hold it in place . |
| 5 | H. L. A. Hart , who has recently added his voice in support of this kind of analysis , provides the following explanation : ‘ The commander characteristically intends his hearer to take the commander 's will instead of his own as a guide to action and so to take it in place of any deliberation or reasoning of his own : the expression of the commander 's will … is intended to preclude or cut off any independent deliberation by the hearer of the merits pro and con of doing the act . ’ |
| 6 | The brief answers required will oblige candidates to relate and use information across the passage , not merely to reproduce it in sequence . |
| 7 | If they think of history , it may be hard not to see it in dressing-up terms from telly watching . |
| 8 | To confront the anger of God , not to hurl it in others ' faces , but in humility to confront it ourselves , is to find a knife to cut through our pious cant , and a fire to burn up our sentimentality and our complacency . |
| 9 | This sort of nasal overdrive sound , reminiscent of a blocked sinus ( and about as difficult to get rid of ) , dogs many a small combo amp and I was surprised not to find it in abundance on both VGs . |
| 10 | Whatever you are looking for in a holiday , we defy you not to find it in Majorca . |
| 11 | ‘ That is an inquisitorial power , which may work with great severity against third persons , and it seems to me to be obvious that such a section ought to be used with the greatest care , so as not unnecessarily to put in motion the machinery of justice when it is not wanted , or to put it in motion at a stage when it is not clear that it is wanted , and certainly not to put it in motion if unnecessary mischief is going to be done or hardship inflicted upon the third person who is called upon to appear and give information . |
| 12 | Just to put it in mind . |
| 13 | J just to put it in perspective |
| 14 | It must take up all of your spare time just to keep it in tune . |
| 15 | To recognize a rule as a rule is not to recognize it in terms of approval or disapproval . |
| 16 | This is not to deny the importance of inter-war industrial change — just to get it in perspective relative to the much more profound restructuring of the recent past . |
| 17 | He believes that Drucker makes people ‘ think a lot more deeply — in their bath , perhaps — but how to detect it in practice is difficult ’ . |
| 18 | A stallion that behaves in the same way is psychologically more threatening to us , but it is best to respond with tact — to stroke the horse briefly and then to leave it in peace . |
| 19 | of course he had no recipe , although I do n't make custard in micro I would n't know how to do it in microwave |
| 20 | I could n't help thinking she was like a racehorse , and when Ward started questioning her , she answered him with such haughty condescension , such arrogance , that his face went white and I swear he 'd have play-acted the Gorbals slum kid and thrown a lot of four-letter words at her if he 'd known how to do it in Spanish . |
| 21 | Here 's how to get it in shape |
| 22 | A. ( long pause ) Do n't know how to say it in English . |
| 23 | He had a wonderful brain , but I guess we did n't know how to make it in bed . |
| 24 | I had conceived my fictional , pastoral church within which I now spent so much of my time during an imaging session at the Centre , but I had yet to see it in reality . |
| 25 | Several modifications have been suggested , but unfortunately there was no snow for the Aviemore race so I 've yet to see it in action . |
| 26 | There 's nothing else to match it in Britain . |
| 27 | So he , he thought he 'd do an experiment , er he took a small piece of radium which he 'd extracted from several tons of pitchblende and he put this bit of radium on his forearm and , and put a bandage round to hold it in place and left it there for a week and said right I 'll see what happens . |
| 28 | And the plume of vapour was blue , but the blueness all around it bellied inwards to encyst it in peacock and midnight , and while it was busy she slashed at the palest of the azure walls with the tongue of her belt-buckle . |