Example sentences of "in it [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We travelled thousands of miles in it over the next two years . |
| 2 | Anyone who did n't get his leg over and smoke a few joints was n't in it as a normal human being . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ In the Oxford of the late Sixties , anyone who did n't get his leg over and smoke a few joints was n't in it as a normal human being ’ |
| 4 | The theory being propounded here sees the global system as primarily a capitalist global system and the main forces in it as the transnational corporations , transnational capitalist classes and the culture-ideology of consumerism . |
| 5 | In Ireland she heartened the embryonic movement for the higher education of women by personally securing the involvement in it of the Roman Catholic convent-school nuns . |
| 6 | Their departure had something in it of the bowed and wretched mien of Adam and Eve in the many ‘ expulsion ’ paintings he had later seen , and by then the Garden itself had a ruined look , paradise destroyed . |
| 7 | There is a unity and perfection in it of an incommunicable kind . |
| 8 | But Protestant orthodoxy in the generations after the Reformation had inclined to treat the Bible in a rather hardened and absolute fashion , and to search in it for a wider range of information than the Reformers were looking for . |
| 9 | It 's great , cos the water 's warm , and I fill up the sink and keep my hands in it for a long time . |
| 10 | No in in your memory , of course , you 've been involved in it for a long time , have n't you ? |
| 11 | But that was only because I 'd lived in it for a long time and I got a discount so the house was really |
| 12 | He has n't been in it for a long time . |
| 13 | Christine let him stew in it for a few moments . |
| 14 | Once it has been lifted from the frames it will be offered to the NRM who have expressed interest in it for a projected display . |
| 15 | She had a cloud of short hair curving in clinging waves about her head , the colour of barley silk , and under the feathery fringe her forehead bulged childishly , with room in it for a notable brain , the one thing about her that was not suavely curved and ivory-smooth . |
| 16 | Before the new names can go in the pot , the ones that have remained in it for the two years have to come out so , after a brief introduction by the chairman of the trustees and the vicar , the three keyholders leave the room to go next door to the church where the chest is kept . |
| 17 | The web of diplomatic contacts which had developed in western and central Europe over the last 200 or more years was now being extended further east by the full incorporation in it for the first time of the great new emerging state of Russia : henceforth events in eastern Europe were to be far more significant in the calculations of statesmen in the west than ever in the past . |
| 18 | A company is treated as an associated undertaking when the group holds a substantial interest in it for the long term , and exercises a significant influence over its operating and financial policy decisions . |
| 19 | Having obtained B , we now select a pivotal element in it for the next step ; the selection is arbitrary except that the element must be nonzero and must not be in the second row , which contains the unit . |
| 20 | It would be a mistake to assume that all participants in the revolt were involved in it for the same reasons . |
| 21 | On into the Room Without a Name they had passed and through to the room it communicated with , the Room of Astonishment , so called because it had a cupboard in it with a little staircase inside that wound its way up into the loft . |
| 22 | The home side now began to look much the better side and Cummings kept Town in it with a fine selection of acrobatic saves . |
| 23 | While recognising that successful sexual relations in later life depended to some extent on earlier satisfactory sexual expression the study known as the Starr-Weiner Report ( Starr and Bakur-Weiner , 1982 ) confirmed that ‘ Older adults are interested in sex , think about it , desire it , engage in it with the same frequency that Kinsey reported for forty year-olds . ’ |
| 24 | There was only one stroke in it after the first round ( Thomson 68 ; Thomas 69 ) , so it was n't cut-and-dried . |
| 25 | will you sleep in it like a good boy ? |
| 26 | Mr Peter Preston , editor of the Guardian , yesterday said : ‘ This has been a long time coming and there are things in it like the enhanced role for proprietors that I 'm not very keen on , ’ he said . |
| 27 | The best way of doing this was by attaching themselves to one of their country 's missions abroad , serving in it in a junior and normally unpaid capacity and thus acquiring experience of diplomatic methods and routines as well as of a foreign country . |
| 28 | The emerging Turkish foreign ministry , a case in point , had about 200 salaried officials working in it in the early 1870s , at the end of the Tanzimat period of attempted administrative and legal reform . |
| 29 | And er , on the other side , the , the people interested in it in the social sciences , erm , did n't particularly like it , because , at that time , they were heavily dominated by er , Marxist and people on the left . |
| 30 | Great holes were torn in it by the German machine guns and shrapnel , but with a discipline that would have honoured the Old Guard , it closed ranks . |