Example sentences of "[vb past] it in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I caught it in the other hand . |
| 2 | He won East Bristol in 1900 and retained it in the general elections of 1906 and 1910 . |
| 3 | That 's when the Caterham goes , eight months after five of us struggled for a weekend to built it in a cramped studio behind the office . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In the US , DEC 's abrupt volte-face involved it in a furious row with press and analysts — see page two . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We shall return to the second part of the old horseman 's description : here it is necessary to emphasize that he used it in an exceptional way . |
| 8 | I never used it in the like people put it in the till . |
| 9 | He found it in a stoneflagged side passage , a door bearing a small brass plate : ‘ Garland ’ . |
| 10 | I found it in an unexpected place . |
| 11 | They found it in the simultaneous detonation of 454,000kg/ 1m lb of explosives in deep tunnels under the German front line . |
| 12 | ‘ I went for a net to get it out and , to my amazement , found it in the tight embrace of a frog . |
| 13 | He felt for Thomas 's hand and wrung it in the momentary blindness after the torch was quenched against the rock . |
| 14 | The Labour Party regained its self-confidence , lost after it had been deserted by its leaders , who formed a National government and then heavily defeated it in a general election in 1931 . |
| 15 | I drove it straight round the corner and installed it in a costly carpark on Lexington and Forty-Third . |
| 16 | A well-established tradition holds owners to be morally entitled to their property where they have obtained it by way of an uncoerced transfer from someone who received it in a similar manner , subject to the property having been originally taken into private ownership by a legitimate process of acquisition . |
| 17 | As they longed for a spiritual assurance of Christ 's presence and received it in the Holy Spirit which literally inspired in them knowledge and love of God so the meditator may grow in inner spiritual knowledge ( c.33 , 36 ) . |
| 18 | Later on Marcus came in , took a bag from inside the noise-maker and dropped it in a large crackling black bag . |
| 19 | He lifted it up and dropped it in the white plastic bag which lines the litter bin . |
| 20 | How much had the Mani changed since Leigh Fermor , that most distinguished of scholar gypsies , explored it in the late 1950s ? |
| 21 | He had brought his telescope ashore with him and mounted it in the little dormer window high up under the eaves of the steep-pitched east-facing gable of his house . |
| 22 | He buried it in the back garden , near the fence , overlooking the park that overlooks the city of which his father was so proud . |
| 23 | You will have seen , with as much surprise as pleasure , a child of nine play the harpsichord like the great masters ; & what will have astonished you even more was to hear from trustworthy persons that he already played it in a superior manner three years ago ; to know that almost everything he plays is of his own composition ; to have found in all his pieces , and even in his improvisations , that character of force which is the stamp of genius , that variety which proclaims the fire of imagination & that charm which proves an assured taste ; and lastly , to have seen him perform the most difficult pieces with an ease and a facility that would be surprising even in a musician of thirty … . |
| 24 | I soaked it in a hot bath last night ; it should be okay now . ’ |
| 25 | He screwed the note up and threw it in the general direction of the wastepaper basket . |
| 26 | There is no evidence , however , for thinking that , in general , people who reckon descent in the male line reckoned it in the female line before . |
| 27 | Once they took one away from the woodpile and hid it in the stable and the mother searched everywhere , growing more and more distressed . |
| 28 | She could n't abide the thought of it , sitting there grinning , it gave her bad dreams she said , so she took it one morning and hid it in the stable loft . |
| 29 | I cooked it in a cheap saucepan . |
| 30 | Viscount Dunedin expressed it in the following words : |