Example sentences of "[vb past] it in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I noted that he pronounced it in eighteenth-century fashion : ‘ m ’ verse' . |
| 2 | De Gaulle had long believed that the PCF 's tendency to align itself with Moscow invalidated it in crucial respects , and in November 1945 he had refused to give the PCF one of the three ministries that he regarded as essential to national security . |
| 3 | This group were aware of the injury and described it in neutral terms of sensation . |
| 4 | Laughing he tossed the hot nut , and Emilia , squealing , caught it in gloved hands . |
| 5 | One particularly violent swerve took it right off the counter and Finn caught it in mid air , upside down , wheels spinning . |
| 6 | He held it up for the others to see and then threw it at the thin man contemptuously who automatically caught it in both hands . |
| 7 | It was what , I used today , they used it in all hospitals . |
| 8 | He used it in encouraging teachers to give children the freedom to discover themselves . |
| 9 | Sometimes a descendant has resurrected the bookplate of an ancestor and used it in later books , if necessary cutting off the original name . |
| 10 | At least two of the staff never used it in this way ( considering it more suitable as a library book ) . |
| 11 | Here are some examples : What if you … used triangular paper ? tried it in three dimensions ? plotted a graph ? tried a simple case first ? shared your results with someone else ? tried fractions or decimals or negative numbers ? |
| 12 | The offence was grievous and innocent , I drove the wrong way round a roundabout , which sounds appalling but there was not a single other car in sight to , in a sense to steer by so to speak , erm but there was one policeman , and he stopped me , and he fined me , and I had to search for my purse , which I had well hidden , this being Italy , erm underneath all the bedding and the tents and the cooking pots , found it in due course , presented him very shakily with these thousand lire or whatever it was he wanted , and , and this is really the point , drove off very shakily too . |
| 13 | Here is the modest parish church of St Mary : the date of its founding is obscure , but a panel over the porch records that the building was restored by Lady Anne Clifford in 1663 after she found it in ruinous condition . |
| 14 | HE LOOKED for the second picture , found it in one glance , and the blood shot hot to his heart . |
| 15 | Diplomatically the Avignon popes gave more to Edward than they gained from him , and by their intervention , first to save his favourites and then to bring about peace with Scotland and with France , the terms of which were not relished by the people , the papacy went further towards gaining that ill-reputation which dogged it in fourteenth-century England . |
| 16 | He could mend any broken toy , and make things too — I remember he made a great big rocking-horse for Hilary , and painted it in all sorts of marvellous colours . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't remember what I actually said , but obviously Mandy misinterpreted it in some way . |
| 18 | He ate it in two bites , like a dog , and put me back on the gravestone . |
| 19 | This time I studied it in good sunlight , because some of the colours are so dim or so dark that one can hardly see what the pattern is all about . |
| 20 | The journey to Liverpool Street station was just a trundle around the Northern Line from Camden to Moorgate and then a short walk , and I accomplished it in good time . |
| 21 | I soaked it in hot water and antiseptic and I drank a little more whisky . |
| 22 | A cream-coloured dress of mine got covered with rust and , although I soaked it in biological liquid , it did n't get rid of the stain . |
| 23 | It is estimated that he trebled it in real terms — and this at a time when the population was stagnant , His most important innovation was the poll-tax in place of the household tax , which the peasantry had been able partially to evade by merging households . |
| 24 | An attempt was also made to take the vacuum pump body , but its weight and bulk seemed to defeat the thief , who nevertheless hid it in nearby bushes . |
| 25 | And then I finished it in one go . |
| 26 | And he cut it in ten blocks . |
| 27 | Jacopone da Todi , the follower of Francis , expressed it in this way : |
| 28 | Paul expressed it in this way : ‘ I live ; yet not I , but Christ lives in me . ’ |
| 29 | In 1938 Leo Amery expressed it in this way : ‘ when we are faced with the competition of a people who lay stress on the healthy development of their young manhood and womanhood , how can we afford a situation in which something like twenty-five per cent of the children of our country are growing up under-nourished and likely to belong to the C3 rather than the A1 type when they grow up . |
| 30 | Well it well ah but ah but they never they never killed it in that quantity as they 're doing it now . |