Example sentences of "in one [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 .
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