Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] it in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We took the semi-rigid rubber boat and went south towards Dawson Island , finally beaching it in a little cove of black sand and gravel on the shore of the Brunswick Peninsula just before the dog-leg that took the Strait north-west through miles of narrow channels to the Pacific . |
| 5 | You do n't miss it do you , not just putting it in a tin like that . |
| 6 | However , we 'll see about that — it 's one thing jumping well in your own gym , but it 's another one altogether doing it in a stadium — in a championship — with thousands of people looking at you . |
| 7 | Finally , here are two other methods of giving and not giving the reader a clue , besides burying it in a list of casual items , separating it into two with a wide gap between the parts of appearing , in putting it in , to be doing something else . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , she set about searching it in a methodical fashion , discovering in the process just what she had expected : nothing . |
| 9 | The French learned that lesson in Paris where footing it in a queue suffering at least a little bit for art is required before access to the Winged Victory of Samothrace or ‘ The artist 's studio ’ by Gustave Courbet . |
| 10 | If the sleeve is released and dropped on the floor , the dog will pick it up and run round shaking it in a play-type mode . |
| 11 | Furthermore , if the problem is seen to be women taking men 's jobs , making them unemployed , the problem is one of macroeconomic policy , and is not to be solved by effectively concentrating it in a disguised fashion among non-working wives . |