Example sentences of "it [adv prt] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Straw : Some is already converted as farmyard manure ; and attempts have been made to break it down in other ways to make a compost base . |
| 2 | In other words , watching the film persuaded me that despite the intricacy of the life-producing process , it is not wrong to think of helping it along in certain ways . |
| 3 | erm equally if you ca n't get any significant differences between the five different groups of five people you can try and split the stuff up , once you 've got the data you can try and split it up in other ways , divide them into two groups and see |
| 4 | I mean you can re-dress it up in Freudian terms and say their unconscious did it , which is really a very similar thing to say . |
| 5 | Seems to me a very reasonable conclusion , I mean you can redress it up in Freudian terms and say their conscious did it , which is really very similar thing to say , I mean the unconscious becomes a sort of god in that case . |
| 6 | Listen to him/her say a text or story slowly , then listen as he/she speeds it up in successive repetitions . |
| 7 | No amount of dressing it up in fancy language or elegant commentating will alter that . |
| 8 | Anyway , everybody rushed out into the kitchen and cook found some ice and wrapped it up in white cloth and then this woman picked up the toad and put it back in the garden but with the ice in her hands . |
| 9 | Not content with vamping it up in figure-skimming frocks with plunging cleavages and ribbon straps , we opt for the full dressing-up works , with long gloves , spindly stilettos , sparkling clutch bags and gleaming jewellery aplenty . |
| 10 | Bretz 's last paper on the subject sums it up in vivid terms : |
| 11 | And of course he could use it up in subsequent years , he could move some of this into a P E P . |
| 12 | Where training is provided by humanities computing or computing science departments , there are pressures to dress it up in formal scientific terms so as to legitimize it in the eyes of the surrounding scientific community . |
| 13 | She holds it up in different lights and tries to con its meaning . |
| 14 | How often do you write up something neatly when you have worked it out in rough ? |
| 15 | I have left the dialogue unchanged but removed some of the author 's comments and set it out in sociological rather than novelistic conventions . |
| 16 | In case there are any reading this who have still not seen the vision , allow me to spell it out in moral advice : If you attend zoos and circuses — find other entertainment ; if you are engaged in intensive ‘ livestock ’ farming — throw away the systems of close confinement ; if you are engaged in animal experimentation — find alternatives ; and if you still eat meat — give it up . |
| 17 | Only then , from that , does he infer that there really is honey ; and this is what really distinguishes being told the truth from finding it out in other ways . |
| 18 | Peter spells it out in black and white |
| 19 | If it is too drastic to jump in at the deep end with such a sweeping change , why not try it out in experimental matches , festival or night matches ? |
| 20 | The book begins , with the description of father and son at the latter 's birth ; the following paragraph is so formal in its rhetorical design , balancing each element of Mr Dombey 's description against a similar element of the description of Paul , that we may set it out in tabular form ( reading the columns from left to right ) : This is a brief glimpse of one kind of language which recurs at intervals throughout the book , especially at symbolic and ceremonial points in the fortunes of the Dombey family : births , funerals , and marriages . |
| 21 | Put it out in public places and that 's it because I mean the number of people erm they went to these directories like hot cross buns . |
| 22 | It embodies the decision impugned and apart from the definitions I must set it out in full . |
| 23 | Write it out in full , reflect on it overnight and polish it the next day . |
| 24 | Now , you can give the answer in this form you need n't write it out in full . |
| 25 | Child to teacher [ showing completed draft ] : Shall I write it out in neat now ? |
| 26 | Sweating it out in blistering heat from 6am until 9pm each day . |
| 27 | She took one of my mother 's gingham breakfast napkins from a drawer and wrung it out in cold water . |
| 28 | This is still a binding holiday agreement on both you and us , but we have set it out in plain English , in a way that we hope you will find informative and easy to read . |
| 29 | He flung himself down on my bed , trying it out in different positions . |
| 30 | In a trice , office machines can set the type and print it out in fine detail . |