Example sentences of "[vb pp] it in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sue had designed it in the shape of a dove and the message read : ‘ How to give your MP the bird ’ . |
| 2 | I would gladly have accepted the post of manager even if I had not won it in the club raffle . |
| 3 | ‘ Could he have dropped it in the car ? |
| 4 | I have included it in the map with Eridanus . |
| 5 | I have included it in the map with Dorado . |
| 6 | It contains nothing of real interest , and I have included it in the chart with Vela . |
| 7 | The Verulamium report was to hand , as Maurice had included it in the School library . |
| 8 | So I 've added it in the middle , rather than at the end . |
| 9 | And this time China 's rulers knifed it in the back with shameless savagery — then set about hounding the survivors in a reign of terror . |
| 10 | I found the uncles and their wives , and the cousins , too , who were respectively scruffy and stuffy , trying and used to dread the annual get-together — though now I thought back to it it seemed I 'd always enjoyed it in the event . |
| 11 | But it is obvious that the sentences form part of some larger act of conversational interaction between two speakers ; the sentences contain several references that presuppose shared knowledge ( e.g. ‘ that meeting ’ implies that both speakers know which meeting is being spoken about ) , and in some cases the meaning of a sentence can only be correctly interpreted in the light of knowledge of what has preceded it in the conversation ( e.g. ‘ You ca n't be sure ’ ) . |
| 12 | We have already considered it in the context of stress and frustration ( ie. conflict between the individual and his environment ) and role theory ( ie. inter-personal conflict within the individual ) . |
| 13 | We could even have pinched it in the end . ’ |
| 14 | President Carter had applied it in the form of an embargo on grain sales to the Soviet Union after the Christmas 1979 invasion of Afghanistan ; and it was to prove as ineffective as the Arab oil embargo . |
| 15 | I 've never never done it in the winter . |
| 16 | For page one three four and T U P E , yes , well we have done quite an extensive document , there 's been a lot done about T U P E in the public sector we 've done it in the government sector and given guidelines , and T U P E , while it is like you rightly say , a step forward , it 's not the total answer we need something better , but it does level out the playing field that the cowboys can find it difficult in and we as a union are advocating to our members where there is a transfer taking place , whether there 's a change to your employment challenge it and we will support that challenge with the necessary legal interpretation if so . |
| 17 | The PSA has always done it in the past . |
| 18 | I have accepted part of it , and I 've amended it to ensure that we can overcome the criticisms er that would have been involved if we 'd left it er as it was , er and above all , and I think this is the most important thing , we 've made sure that it will work , er and that it will meet our objectives of getting competition into the franchises , if we 'd just ended up with one great monolithic British Rail , after all each franchise remember will be coming gradually , they wo n't be doing them all at once , there will be one next year , several the year after , and so on , if British Rail had been able to go around and pick them off , and say , Well we can run this now in the future much better than we 've done it in the past , so we 'll bid , and we 'll bid a low bid , that really would n't have been getting fair and proper competition into the system , so what i what I 've done is ensured , as I 've done all the way through in this bill in accepting amendments , that we make sure we achieve our objectives , and that above all it 's workable , the , as it was it would n't as it was the Paignton amendment would n't have been workable , because there would have been total chaos and confusion |
| 19 | but if they are wankers nothing you do , and including , I mean I 've done it in the past , slowed right down and nine times out of ten it jus it just incenses them to drive even closer . |
| 20 | People have done it in the past and have regretted it . |
| 21 | On neither occasion could he say why he had done what he did , nor had he done it in the company of other pupils he wanted to impress . |
| 22 | Three of you are unlocked and you come down and there are prison officers standing everywhere — to me that was stupid , because if the women wanted to riot they would have done it in the dining hall there and then . |
| 23 | He had done it in the street in front of everyone . |
| 24 | Why have n't you done it in the time you 've been in ? |
| 25 | I 've never done it in the office , I 've always gone , I 've always probably gone in the canteen or in the of in the , in the wagon thing |
| 26 | They 've done it in the Vale . |
| 27 | Yeah but my done it in the morning go rush out to the post box |
| 28 | I sometimes wish I did but I I 've never done it in the morning . |
| 29 | This is Albert 's entry to the solo ; I seem to recall Emmy playing this in E♭ , but I 've written it in the key of D so that you wo n't have to ‘ capo-up ’ at the first fret . |
| 30 | I 've written it in the book . |