Example sentences of "[vb infin] it in [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | Once the door was shut , they could have had a dance band going full blast and you 'd never know it in the next room . |
2 | Staff wishing to avail themselves of this flexitime arrangement should discuss it in the first instance with their line manager . |
3 | No definition is spot on really , you can always find difficulties with it but they do sort of discuss it in the first paragraph . |
4 | But erm I mean th th the debate yesterday was , was as , as budget issues always are I mean when you 're talking about budget no matter , even in boom years you 're always still talking oh we have n't got enough money erm but it was positive in the sense that it was A we 're coming off the back of some good performance , and that 's important to remember , and all I 'm saying is there 's no reason why we should n't be able to maintain our performance , even if we ca n't improve it in the next two or three months erm from , to where we actually think we should have been given that the systems come in last year . |
5 | Efforts to strengthen and improve it in the last decades of the century had only moderate success . |
6 | Why do it now , why did n't she do it in the first place . |
7 | The turnover may have to be greatly reduced in this situation until the young fish are large enough to withstand the water flow , so why employ it in the first place ? |
8 | Do n't overdo it in the first few days . |
9 | In other words , if you could n't get it in the next three months , you could forget about it ! |
10 | Well , er , it 's all according to whether they can afford it in the first instance , secondly , is it gon na be across the board ? |
11 | The Church no doubt helped to speed up the decline of slavery ; it did not cause it in the first place . |
12 | he 's saying he did n't say it in the first place . |
13 | If you say , as sometimes judges in Court cases do , sometimes child abusers do , oh she led me on , she was eager and willing , oh she erm , well judges do n't actually say it in the first person , do they , usually ? |