Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cambridge liked undergraduates reading theology to have two years over the work and believed that if they tried to do it in fourteen months they would do it superficially , or else they would be sure to hurt themselves by overwork . |
| 2 | So Patsy tried dipping it in cold tea first . |
| 3 | they 'd got it in right , cos she was showing my how it worked and that , all |
| 4 | Whatever it was , he 'd served me with his final invoice and I 'd paid it in full . |
| 5 | We forgot to put it in last night anyway . |
| 6 | Gabriel took over John Coffin 's neglected cup and began to drink it in anxious little sips . |
| 7 | When he finally decided to publish it in 1678 , he defended its form by comparing the tactics of the hunt for souls with the way in which a fowler must whistle to attract birds , and a fisherman must tickle trout before he can clasp them . |
| 8 | He had my note , but he kept putting it in safe places then forgetting where he 'd put it . |
| 9 | It was supposed to take three to five days , but we aimed to do it in two . |
| 10 | W. J. Arkell , king of the Jurassic , had placed it in 1933 at the base of the Callovian Stage . |
| 11 | The elements may have seemed brutal to the documentary makers ( and some had roughed it in various parts of the world ) but to someone like Hannah who had experienced the winters of 1941 and 1962 that November was child 's play . |
| 12 | It would perhaps have been entirely adequate if I had received it in any normal circumstances . |
| 13 | Pippin , the first of the line , had destined it for his first-born , the young Charlemagne in the 750s ; Charlemagne had assigned it in 790 to his son Charles , later labelled primogenitus and designated heir to the regnum Francorum ( though he predeceased his father in 811 ) . |
| 14 | It came into force for those states which had ratified it in 1953 . |
| 15 | The others realised the error at precisely the same moment , and the subsequent racing back along the track towards each other could have been useful in Doctor Zhivago if someone had shot it in slow motion . |
| 16 | I did n't know exactly where Leicester Square was , but 1 did know it was n't far from Piccadilly , I had seen it in one of those tourist maps I had in my hand a short while ago , did n't know where it went , probably left it in the cinema showing the explicit sex film which was n't . |
| 17 | She did n't know what it meant but had seen it in some of the old books in the Doctor 's TARDIS . |
| 18 | She had seen it in any case and she was not Sairellen Thackray who would look down her granite nose at him and sneer . |
| 19 | A kolkhoz to the east of Smolensk city in the Dorogobuzhskii raion complained that in 1921 its two shefi , a nearby hospital , and a regiment , had helped with the harvest , but no one had visited it in 1922 . |
| 20 | We felt that Navan Resources should have made earlier contact with us to let us know that there was gold here , before we had to hear it in that way , ’ Mary Catherine Heanue said . |
| 21 | He had watched it in early May , as the tiny breaking leaves spread a pinkish haze over the magnificent skeleton . |
| 22 | As for the evidence of the by-elections , Attlee himself had discounted it in 1943 : |
| 23 | Some changes , however , were made in the draft to satisfy those who had challenged it in this way : union republics were given eleven rather than seven seats each in the Supreme Soviet 's Council of Nationalities and ex officio places on the Committee of Constitutional Supervision , and changes of wording were made in order to remove what Gorbachev described as the ‘ misunderstanding ’ that the rights of republics had been infringed . |
| 24 | The ‘ magic ’ as she had called it in those exciting days when it had all begun , had become a curse . |
| 25 | I was to do the counting — up to a hundred ( I could n't count up to a hundred , I had to do it in tens ) and when I opened my eyes he 'd have disappeared . |
| 26 | And the mothers had to do it in those days , half a crown to do all the washing for this woman . |
| 27 | Leith , having popped along to her bedroom to take her hair out of the knot she had worn it in all day , was having serious thoughts about her actions — inviting him for a meal , for goodness ' sake ! |
| 28 | He had a soft face and a long white beard with red , yellow and blue bits at the end where he had dipped it in strange chemicals by mistake . |
| 29 | The boys heard the crash and they ran as fast as they could to get help from the police and ambulance , but when the police and ambulance got there they only found the boys ' fishing tackle where they had dumped it in such haste . |
| 30 | Louis Pasteur had observed it in 1877 , but even he was not the first to do so . |