Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] it in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has felt the presaging shadow of death , and he goes to meet it in the old unchanging way of the wild — alone . |
| 2 | Kankoila was one of the founder members of FLING , helping to establish it in the early 1950s . |
| 3 | The Nord-Pas-de-Calais strategy is clearly designed to pull it in the former camp and has a number of existing advantages to draw upon including a good geographical position and relatively low land prices , wages and corporate taxation rates . |
| 4 | But it is obvious that the sentences form part of some larger act of conversational interaction between two speakers ; the sentences contain several references that presuppose shared knowledge ( e.g. ‘ that meeting ’ implies that both speakers know which meeting is being spoken about ) , and in some cases the meaning of a sentence can only be correctly interpreted in the light of knowledge of what has preceded it in the conversation ( e.g. ‘ You ca n't be sure ’ ) . |
| 5 | As a diversion , which would allow time for the passing of the trembling , I reached into my pocket , pulled out the tin of rubbers , and tried to open it in the dark . |
| 6 | The misspelling may be because the child has not previously seen the word written down , but more likely because he has seen it in the context of his reading , without paying much attention to anything more than its contour — that is , he has recognised the word without having to decode it , and has understood it without giving its spelling structure close attention . |
| 7 | The reason for this is that ( in many cases ) the client becomes aware of the proposed legislation either because he has been served under the General Orders with a notice as being directly affected , or because he has seen it in the local newspaper or Gazette advertisement . |
| 8 | He has offered madness in the form of a minute ; she has accepted it in the form of an examination answer . |
| 9 | Store has got it in the can |
| 10 | the best thing you want to stick it in the room and put a heater . |
| 11 | ‘ And I want to use it in the plot for my new novel , ’ Melissa continued . |
| 12 | You want to put it in the fridge ? |
| 13 | Why would he need to do it in the dark ? |
| 14 | And then she tried to put it in the washing machine for a joke and the dog was gon na get in . |
| 15 | When he reached the hut Ariel had built , he found Kit Everard asleep on the threshold , curled up like a worm when a hoe has struck it in the earth , rust-pink and grimacing with his whole body , as if in pain . |
| 16 | But the local council has put it in the highest council tax band — for houses worth at least three hundred thousand pounds . |
| 17 | So that that just stopped did it in the end . |
| 18 | Right , well we 'll just need to stuff it in the bag then . |
| 19 | Only those who have shown the resolve to defend the freedom of the West can be trusted to safeguard it in the challenging , turbulent and unpredictable times that lie ahead . ’ |
| 20 | A second grenade went off under another vehicle as army explosives specialists tried to defuse it in the nearby New Lodge Road district … |
| 21 | put it in the vice , I mean put it in the vice whether , whether it just pull the head off I do n't know but it came out |
| 22 | Many , however , came to accept it in the context of their hopes for future labour success : capitalist bureaucracy was undesirable , but when labour came to dominate Parliament , the bureaucracy would act in sympathy with the needs and condition of the working class and would no longer be regarded as an alien intrusion . |
| 23 | " Why did you expect to find it in the laundry-basket ? " |
| 24 | Well only because we 'd seen it in the shop |
| 25 | It was a look she recognised instantly , although it was the first time she 'd seen it in the flesh . |
| 26 | He 'd bought it in the Bazaar from an Indian trader who told him it would make the muscle grow . |
| 27 | Being an unabashed admirer of the Guardian 's Notes & Queries column , I have decided to flatter it in the sincerest way possible . |
| 28 | He said he learnt to do it in the field during the Falklands War . |
| 29 | Unlike age , sex and social class , ethnicity as such has not been used as a census category ( though the OPCS plans to use it in the 1991 Census ) . |
| 30 | Much bigger than she 'd imagined it in the dark . |