Example sentences of "in it like " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sort of dabble my foot in it like it 's a puddle . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They took a double blanket … rolled him in it like you roll a papoose on a cradle board … put where there were mules , not in soldier tent . ’ |
| 4 | A green bush billowed from a crack in it like a sail . |
| 5 | Wrapped in it like a butterfly in its cocoon , I felt secure . |
| 6 | It was , therefore , supposed that the compensating positive charge was spread out like the cakey part of a plum pudding , with the electrons embedded in it like currants . |
| 7 | If there 's anything embedded in it like gravel or something and it does n't come away easily you must n't , it comes under the categories of what you call foreign bodies , which first aider is not at liberty to poke about , you must leave foreign bodies that do n't come away easily where they are and bandage them round and send them off to hospital or a doctor , but assuming it 's just a little clean graze , if I have n't got a tap to put it under , then I must use little bits of gauze to wash , put in a bowl of water and just wipe , yeah , and you always wipe obviously from the centre of a wound towards the outside , otherwise if you start to wipe across the whole thing you take dirt from one side of the wound across and drop it off in the middle somewhere , so you wipe from the centre out and throw that piece away and you take another piece and wipe from the centre out and so on until you feel happy , quite happy . |
| 8 | Here 's the shopping street he walked along , and , lingering in it like the smell of coffee , the first impression of the whole city that he based on it . |
| 9 | Then at the crest of each polished wave , the blackness broke for a moment into the dark green of very deep water , and the sun shimmered in it like light varnished over . |
| 10 | When they 'd moved in he 'd made a point of telling just about everybody where it was and how much it was costing — wincing a little at the same time , as if he were telling the story against himself and his own folly — but it had become a sterile kind of heaven , and he sat around in it like some forgotten angel . |
| 11 | If there 's anything embedded in it like glass , wood or dirt . |
| 12 | ceramic tiles set in it like that |
| 13 | will you sleep in it like a good boy ? |
| 14 | Why has it got lines in it like bumps like that ? |