Example sentences of "in it by the " in BNC.

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1 But that causeway had had deep holes dug in it by the defenders these last days , and the intervening stretches strewn with caltrops , four-pronged iron spikes such as Bruce had used with such effect at Bannockburn , and which the many smiths of Berwick had been set to forging for the last weeks .
2 It is hard to divide up the Basque hinterland in any manageable way in order to describe it ; here , I shall stick to the three provinces recognized in it by the Basques themselves , of Labourd , Basse-Navarre and the Soule .
3 Does my hon. Friend the Minister agree that while Britain has the highest proportion of health costs funded by the public purse , the British public have shown their confidence in it by the fact that only 13 per cent .
4 There was a roll of film in it by the way , did they tell you ?
5 The capital 's importance in the cloth trade is seen in the part played in it by the Fellowship of the Merchant Adventurers of London .
6 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 .
7 I , mines got a in it by the way , beer belly
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