Example sentences of "[verb] it in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since launching it in the late 1980s , Microsoft has sold over 25m copies . |
| 2 | Once the door was shut , they could have had a dance band going full blast and you 'd never know it in the next room . |
| 3 | There is said to be an area on the knee called The Three-Mile Point ; it sounds wonderful for runners because , practitioners say , if you touch it in the right way , you 'll have enough energy to run another three miles . |
| 4 | The nice complication then arises that to entertain the Copernican system seriously as a potentially true physical description , and subsequently to reject it , could be a more radical position than to accept it in the former sense . |
| 5 | He should understand that ‘ the story of Christ is simply a true myth : a myth working on us in the same way as the others , but with this tremendous difference that it really happened : and one must be content to accept it in the same way . ’ |
| 6 | For example polymethyl methacrylate ( Perspex , Plexiglas ) may be moulded to any desired shape by warming it to temperatures little over 100°C and cooling it in the deformed state . |
| 7 | I see , I mean it 's good to see really that er test match has been dom well almost dominated at the moment , by , by a slow bowler , it 's an ideal situation for in England , batsmen done their job , England are in command , got lots of runs to play with , but it 's definitely the left arm spinner who 's causing the , the greatest problem out there , he 's , he 's landing it in the right place , he likes variation in that over , confident enough looks very tempted , always very difficult to come in at first twenty minutes as a batsman , when you 've come in on a turning wicket , a very , very , difficult . |
| 8 | And send it in the pre-paid envelope |
| 9 | And send it in the pre-paid envelope . |
| 10 | send it i send it in the pre-paid envelope ? |
| 11 | WHEN I BEGAN to write about Thrush Green in 1958 , I described it in the first few pages of the book I called Thrush Green , and a little later as seen by Ruth Bassett from the bedroom window of her late grandfather 's beautiful house overlooking the green . |
| 12 | I caught it in the other hand . |
| 13 | ‘ Make up your minds ’ , the pope urged ; ‘ either celebrate it in the full-blooded manner of your pagan ancestors ’ , or acknowledge that ‘ it is superstitious and vain , and manifestly incompatible with the profession of Christianity ’ . |
| 14 | He has felt the presaging shadow of death , and he goes to meet it in the old unchanging way of the wild — alone . |
| 15 | Kankoila was one of the founder members of FLING , helping to establish it in the early 1950s . |
| 16 | Staff wishing to avail themselves of this flexitime arrangement should discuss it in the first instance with their line manager . |
| 17 | No definition is spot on really , you can always find difficulties with it but they do sort of discuss it in the first paragraph . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The norw. team who looked sure to qualify have vasted it in the last two games by loosing away and have no chance to qualify . |
| 20 | It was 'ard enough gettin' it in the first place . |
| 21 | Although the case for commitment accounting improving budgetary control is a good one , there is a real problem involved in adopting it in the financial accounts . |
| 22 | And then , when you find they say it in the fourth year , they mean it and you begin to look at yourself and realize what colour you are . |
| 23 | And then you find that when they say it in the fourth year , they mean it and you begin to realize . |
| 24 | He won East Bristol in 1900 and retained it in the general elections of 1906 and 1910 . |
| 25 | This little harbour near St Austell is named after Charles Rashleigh , who built it in the late eighteenth century to a design by John Smeaton . |
| 26 | Yes , his pulse does race , but mostly , he says , ‘ with admiration for the medieval masons and carpenters who built it in the first place ’ . |
| 27 | This model confirms the importance of the greenhouse gas forcing of the climate , but it suggests that a doubling of greenhouse gas concentration will produce an increase in surface air temperature of 1.6 + 0.3 °C , which places it in the lower range of the generally accepted predictions of temperature increase ( Gilliland and Schneider , 1984 ) . |
| 28 | Hirtle 1975 : 37 for examples with realize , agree and understand ) , its meaning places it in the unique position of becoming the equivalent of a verb of perception when it is used in the operative sense . |
| 29 | Not everyone subjected to a particular odour will however describe it in the same manner . |
| 30 | McIllvanney was a Protestant bully from the Shankill Road in Belfast , who had learned his thuggery in the hard school of Northern Ireland 's prejudices , honed it in the British army , and now put it to whatever good use he wanted in the Bahamas . |