Example sentences of "in [num] [noun sg] [prep] it " in BNC.
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1 | You need to be able to hold the board in one position without it drifting downwind and also to sail backwards which is invaluable in tight situations . |
2 | Well a ponch er it 's sort of made of wood , and got a got a handle crosswise which you held in one half of it in each hand , it had a stem , and on the on the ponch itself was a sort of er piece of wood that had been er cut out to have about four , I think it was four , legs on this , you see and you used to stand over the ponch and |
3 | What looked like flour-sacks were piled in one section of it , and the floor was dusted with yellowish powder . |
4 | Our house in Dublin would fit in one corner of it . ’ |
5 | The spider may be on the web , perhaps waiting in one corner of it for a fly to become caught . |
6 | Eventually it may become so big that one of the young sons may be able to set up on his own in one corner of it . |
7 | I started to dig in one corner of it , and I dug for six months , winter months , erm and erm managed a shallow pool which erm was n't what I had envisaged at all , but erm two snipe lived there and liked it . |
8 | The area occupied by the nursery was called Gurle 's Ground for some time after Gurle 's death ; in 1719 part of it was still occupied by a Martin Girle , possibly the nurseryman 's eldest son or a grandson . |