Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] in [noun] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jabberwocky is a poem that was made up in Wonderland and it describes some of the wonderful creatures to be seen there . |
| 2 | So we find that there 's an intriguing chemistry going on in space that it would be very difficult for us to reproduce in the laboratory . |
| 3 | I was going round in circles because it 's a very small world — pimps and prostitutes . |
| 4 | The most successful writer who had lived in an English colony was Aphra Behn , who was brought up in Surinam before it was transferred to the Dutch in 1668 , and her most important novel of American life , Oronooko , was so completely sympathetic to the Indian hero that it should be considered as an early contribution to the cult of the noble savage rather than a book which could help its English readers understand the wider world . |
| 5 | I was born in Durban and brought up in Zimbabwe so it was an historic moment for myself as well as the South Africans . ’ |
| 6 | There was such regret , such a bleakness in his eyes that Lissa turned away , her soul crying out in anguish because it was plain for anyone to see how much he cared for this woman who had betrayed him . |
| 7 | I had been very naive when we started out in Rotherham and it came as a shock to me to realize that not everyone can see the justness of a just cause . |
| 8 | Nearly all the undesirable changes that go on in food after it is harvested make it less pleasant , or decidedly horrible , to eat . |
| 9 | So , this may be typed up in January but it will be issued as effective from twenty third February . |
| 10 | The mayors ' plan , targeting $35 billion in fiscal assistance , public works , community development black grants , job training , and low-interest small-business loans , has been taken up in Congress where it has met the famous legislated ‘ wall ’ , which prevents shift of military funds to social programmes rather than to deficit reduction . |
| 11 | They happened to end up in Cork but it might just as well have been Hamburg or Paris or London , or America , as so many other Jews did . |