Example sentences of "[vb past] it in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I noted that he pronounced it in eighteenth-century fashion : ‘ m ’ verse' . |
| 2 | One particularly violent swerve took it right off the counter and Finn caught it in mid air , upside down , wheels spinning . |
| 3 | At least two of the staff never used it in this way ( considering it more suitable as a library book ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | HE LOOKED for the second picture , found it in one glance , and the blood shot hot to his heart . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't remember what I actually said , but obviously Mandy misinterpreted it in some way . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I soaked it in hot water and antiseptic and I drank a little more whisky . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And then I finished it in one go . |
| 13 | Jacopone da Todi , the follower of Francis , expressed it in this way : |
| 14 | Paul expressed it in this way : ‘ I live ; yet not I , but Christ lives in me . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Well it well ah but ah but they never they never killed it in that quantity as they 're doing it now . |
| 17 | So they achieved it in one state and then they moved on to another and started a whole new campaign . |
| 18 | It was not long before someone threw a lump of broken paving through a window ; a dozen sets of plans followed it in short order . |
| 19 | This defence caused some difficulty for the Court of Appeal when two cases raised it in quick succession in the summer and autumn of 1988 . |
| 20 | This is no fiction , but a report from the Daily Telegraph of 1864 which so impressed itself upon Ruskin that he reprinted it in red type in Sesame and Lilies : ‘ Be sure , the facts themselves are written in that colour , in a book which we shall all of us , literate or illiterate , have to read our page of , some day . ’ |
| 21 | Casually it beat the fish into stillness on the branch and swallowed it in one gulp . |
| 22 | She swallowed it in one gulp and started to cough . |
| 23 | I swallowed it in one gulp and almost died of coughing . |
| 24 | I placed it in that part of the room where we need the light , with something which , if I believed in it , I would call instinct . |
| 25 | He was born around the Darlington area and I heard that his family once had money , but lost it in some way . |
| 26 | The guard examined it in close detail , checking off the listed physical peculiarities . |
| 27 | Sister Cooney stood and watched it in mild amusement , before turning and walking thoughtfully inside . |
| 28 | One saw it in extreme form in the 1960s , with Alan Sharp and Archie Hind , and in a quiet way with William McIlvanney . |
| 29 | Kahnweiler throughout his life was to maintain that the painting was unfinished , and on occasion was even to assert that Picasso himself saw it in this way . |
| 30 | A record shows , 'The inhabitants of the place said we never saw it in this fashion before ; we were left to wander and none cared for our souls ; but now a brighter day has dawned for us . ’ |