Example sentences of "in it the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I remember waking with my face in it the first whole night we spent together .
2 As a result , the journal came under Crookes ' complete control , and in 1870 he published in it the first of a series of four papers on spiritualism .
3 In it the two front-raised items ( castle , dabble ) appear to be randomly front-raised rather than governed by any systematic rule .
4 The second stage is a kind of broadside display ; it is called the ‘ parallel walk ’ , and in it the two males walk back and forth along side each other .
5 This state obtains its name from the fact that in it the general conditions of production and consumption , of distribution and exchange remain motionless ; but yet it is full of movement ; for it is a mode of life .
6 However , no sooner had they built such a machine than they recognised in it the inherent dangers of a heartless device capable of original thought .
7 ‘ Thus , ’ as J. A. Burrow remarks , ‘ as Duke Humphrey 's guests worked their way through this very unpenitential fish banquet , they were invited to see in it the four courses of their own life 's feast . ’
8 He saw the house as it had once been , in his childhood — still , ordered , each thing in it the finest and most beautiful example of its kind .
9 In it the mutual affections of bishop and diocese can not be missed .
10 And me and me mam we singing in it the other night , just to use up the tape .
11 In it the poor would have a voice and a share , but would not be able to outweigh or vote away the interests of the propertied and the wealthy .
12 Twenty years later , Charles reminded an assembly of how " a part of the realm was assigned me by my lord and father … and in it the metropolitan see of Sens then lacked a pastor .
13 He seems thrilled to stumble across the notion that war has a technological impetus of its own ; others will recognise in it the familiar railway-timetable explanation of why the first world war proved so unstoppably disastrous .
14 Among the authors were also the Deputy Interior and Defence Ministers , Gen. Gromov and Varennikov , leading some commentators to see in it the veiled threat of a military coup .
15 The head of the figure at the extreme left , for instance , is different in colour from those of the central figures , and even different from the body to which it is attached ; in it the pale pinks that had characterized so much of the work of 1906 have been mixed with black to produce a much more sombre effect .
16 Yeah they went to work in it the next day .
17 I really I really do wish it was that simple and I wish that when I pick up The Star on a Thursday or one of the other local papers that I did n't read in it the twenty cars that 's broken into and and all the other problems and I say to myself now why did that happen .
18 In it the whole idea of the fertility rite is exploded , using the very forms and devices of the traditional ritual .
19 And in it the wonderful words : ‘ will not now take place … ’
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