Example sentences of "[vb base] it in the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 And send it in the pre-paid envelope
3 And send it in the pre-paid envelope .
4 send it i send it in the pre-paid envelope ?
5 ‘ 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 ’ .
6 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 .
7 And then you find that when they say it in the fourth year , they mean it and you begin to realize .
8 ‘ Lots of women who have fine hair hanker after long , thick hair , so they grow it in the mistaken belief that the longer it gets , the more hair they have and the fuller it will look , ’ explained Charles .
9 Date it and place it in the safe keeping of a bank manager or a solicitor ( although these professionals often do n't like doing this , as it is a lot of trouble ) .
10 If you or I were to mix mud and water and place it in the same position it would fall off .
11 Jack had to fill the coal scuttles , Kevin to bring in the logs , Aengus had to roll yesterday 's papers into sausage-like shapes which would be used for lighting the fires later , Gerry , who was meant to be the animal lover , had to take Oswald for a run in the park , and see that there was something on the bird table in the garden , and Ronan had to open the big heavy curtains in the front rooms , take the milk in from the steps and place it in the big fridge and brush whatever had to be brushed from the big granite steps leading up to the house .
12 Yes , fine , now you want it in the red one and not the silver one , yes ?
13 I 've heard also of courses of injections which remove it in the short term but result in a worse incidence of cellulite after the treatment has worn off .
14 You simply bite on one , take it back to the warren and put it in the great burrow .
15 We put it in the second bag , and that 's now four blue and three red .
16 yeah put it in the small pile
17 At 7.00 next morning he placed the basin in his tin and handed it to the attendant , who put it in the hot cupboard .
18 Put it in the other one ! ’
19 He then removed the window and put it in the new hole and started to fill in the gap at the sides with cement .
20 She took an old carpet , filled it with soil and put it in the front room , where Annie and her brother spent the day .
21 If it is a real big son , great , we stuff it and put it in the front room .
22 Wallington ( 1985 : 159 ) put it in the following way :
23 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
24 Modern zoologists put it in the Wallacean sub-region along with its adjacent islands , together with the Philippines ( except Palawan and the Calamian group of islands ) and the Lesser Sundas from Lombok to Timor .
25 In the chip shop we bought some fish out the fryer and put in the top and straight away got them bloody tongs picked it up and poured the bloody grease off it and put it in the bloody bag thought it was terrible .
26 Get a forklift and put it in the bloody garden see .
27 put it in the bloody garage and forget it ai n't he ?
28 But they did get her another chair , and put it in the old chair 's place .
29 Look at it and then erm measured it I did I d and then I redid this one and put it in the same scale ,
30 I do , you put it in the big shop did n't you ?
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