Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] it in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has felt the presaging shadow of death , and he goes to meet it in the old unchanging way of the wild — alone . |
| 2 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 3 | The misspelling may be because the child has not previously seen the word written down , but more likely because he has seen it in the context of his reading , without paying much attention to anything more than its contour — that is , he has recognised the word without having to decode it , and has understood it without giving its spelling structure close attention . |
| 4 | The reason for this is that ( in many cases ) the client becomes aware of the proposed legislation either because he has been served under the General Orders with a notice as being directly affected , or because he has seen it in the local newspaper or Gazette advertisement . |
| 5 | He has offered madness in the form of a minute ; she has accepted it in the form of an examination answer . |
| 6 | Store has got it in the can |
| 7 | When he reached the hut Ariel had built , he found Kit Everard asleep on the threshold , curled up like a worm when a hoe has struck it in the earth , rust-pink and grimacing with his whole body , as if in pain . |
| 8 | But the local council has put it in the highest council tax band — for houses worth at least three hundred thousand pounds . |
| 9 | Unlike age , sex and social class , ethnicity as such has not been used as a census category ( though the OPCS plans to use it in the 1991 Census ) . |
| 10 | However , the museum plans to display it in the spring in the Egyptian galleries . |
| 11 | When she applies this to her test situations , however , she tends to interpret it in the narrow sense of explicitness rather than with reference to the higher orders of logic to which abstractness usually refers and which the general weight of her argument implies . |
| 12 | The Capital Plan for next year appears to treat it in the same way as capital receipts from sales , with the total being pooled and divided between the various programmes . |
| 13 | Though its airs of faded grandeur seems to place it in the Anglo-Ireland of Molly Keane — a world of dwindling resources and sinking expectations — it is far from being another monument to the old Ascendancy ( ‘ Protestants on horseback ’ , as Brendan Behan once dubbed them ) . |
| 14 | At the moment the sail is only attached down its needed edge but before we can use it , we 've got to control it properly and that means to tuck it in the boot the jaws clip on here , the down-haul clips on to the sail and is threaded through the jaws before we make it up on the cleat the position of the boom and hence the sail relative to the wind is controlled by this rope , the mainsheet . |
| 15 | Somebody purchases alcohol from an off-licence and proceeds to drink it in the open air , usually in a secluded place called a ‘ bushing spot ’ . |
| 16 | We 've got it in , Geoff 's got it in the car we 're gon na try again on the way home . |
| 17 | Paul 's got it in the bowl , in a , in a , on a bowl ? |
| 18 | And it 's stuck it in the paper somewhere that er Branson has given money and er oh you know lots of other people in big business have given money . |
| 19 | Who 's left it in the |
| 20 | If you have n't done any business , you 've no income , so he 's left it in the pot , so he can draw another one thousand two hundred . |
| 21 | I suppose she 's put it in the other room . |
| 22 | In other words it 's not part of its standard employment allocation but it 's put it in the local plan so that people know , the locals know , that that field over there those fields over there erm are not guaranteed for ever as countryside but on the other hand they 're jolly well not gon na be released unless it 's for something extremely special for which there would be a statement carried through from the structure plan , elaborated on no doubt at local level , which set the rules . |