Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And then she tried to put it in the washing machine for a joke and the dog was gon na get in . |
| 3 | So that that just stopped did it in the end . |
| 4 | A second grenade went off under another vehicle as army explosives specialists tried to defuse it in the nearby New Lodge Road district … |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Well only because we 'd seen it in the shop |
| 7 | It was a look she recognised instantly , although it was the first time she 'd seen it in the flesh . |
| 8 | He 'd bought it in the Bazaar from an Indian trader who told him it would make the muscle grow . |
| 9 | He said he learnt to do it in the field during the Falklands War . |
| 10 | Much bigger than she 'd imagined it in the dark . |
| 11 | The wedding-dress was in the faded green trunk , just as he 'd imagined it in the night . |
| 12 | Well apparently it had gone to Andrew , and , Andrew had cos Andrew is n't in the office all the time , and he 'd left it in the office , and I think they faxed it by th Andrew was gon na talk to somebody about it , but of course , by the time he 'd got there , it 'd already been done and this had happened so I 'm gon na ring erm Job Centre when I get home . |
| 13 | I 'd kept it in the bottom of my bra-and-pants drawer ever since I stole it from Dad . |
| 14 | The obvious thing to do is raise income tax , but the Government pledged to reduce it in the election manifesto — just after the commitment to the exchange rate mechanism ( ERM ) . |
| 15 | 13–1–1906 They had under consideration the question of using the Hymnary in the public worship and agreed to use it in the summer if there was no serious collection among the people . |
| 16 | Enlightened bureaucrats sought to put it in the hands of a newly created ministry ; conservatives proposed transferring it from the liberal Ministry of Education to the Ministry of Internal Affairs . |
| 17 | For a fraction of a second , a strange , satanic glitter lit up Lucie 's eyes and his fist clenched and he began to punch it in the air . |
| 18 | If it is a popular tune , its spread through the meme pool may be gauged by the number of people heard whistling it in the streets . |
| 19 | The local name of the place , the Gold Pit , implies that a good deal of gold was robbed from the site before the French archaeologists started excavating it in the 1920s , and there is good reason to suppose that the so-called Aegina Treasure , which is now in the British Museum , originated here . |
| 20 | They decided to price it in the middle of the range , at the ‘ black label ’ level , but they issued the actual record with a special Royal Purple design . |
| 21 | I thumbed through the aeroplane magazine looking for articles on pre-ski protuberances — curiously there were none , and we decided to ignore it in the hope that it would go down roughly when the plane did . |
| 22 | I went to fetch it in the van . |
| 23 | Unmistakable , even though I had never seen one before ; a big bird , brown and grey with a red throat , low in the water , where the wind-rippled surface managed to camouflage it in the most extraordinary way . |
| 24 | But at least we managed to keep it in the UK , although we had lots of offers to go abroad . |
| 25 | Lady Grubb picked up her plate of junket and went to eat it in the drawing-room , shaking with a passion she did n't care to scrutinize because it contained not only fury but also amazement and fear . |
| 26 | Dorothy 's Wrinkled Stocking tearoom — named after broom-wielding battleaxe Norah Batty — has been overrun with trippers since BBC chiefs chose to feature it in the evergreen Pennine series . |
| 27 | So erm anyway they they they did do it in the end . |
| 28 | They did exchange it in the end but I had to be very insistent and it took three months . |
| 29 | B : I did n't say you did leave it in the car . |
| 30 | I know we did saw it in the fridge . |