Example sentences of "[subord] it [verb] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had both of them thought that the climate of Panama would be bad for the racquets , although it turned out in the end that he could perfectly well have taken them with him . |
| 2 | And , you know , I get stuff which comes at me and I pass on to someone else and gradually the process goes until it finishes up in the wastepaper bin , and usually they 're the ones which are the longest which do n't get read . |
| 3 | Thus a creature that hunts by daylight would waste its energy if it rushed around in the night when its prey was hiding in a burrow and , anyway , it would be poorly equipped for hunting then . |
| 4 | ‘ We now have this ludicrous situation where if a fire broke out in one end of a particular street in Prestatyn , Rhyl fire engines will go to it and if it breaks out in the other end of the street Prestatyn will go to it , ’ added Coun Edwards . |
| 5 | The philosophy that if it goes down in the US it must be going up in Europe has meant that Smurfit is looking to Europe as its main engine for growth in the months to come , when it must decide how to spend the $1bn cash raised from the recent financial restructuring with Morgan Stanley . |
| 6 | ‘ If it takes off in the States , the sky 's the limit , ’ he says . |
| 7 | And if it ends up in the scrap bin , we simply write it off to experience , and start again . |
| 8 | The German engineers last week agreed that they had met problems with the clay earth , which had proved unstable because of burrowing by rodents , and because it dries out in the summer . |
| 9 | The employees at Binns on High Row volunteered for the yearlong course after it came up in the company 's suggestion scheme . |
| 10 | ‘ I saw Mick and Jerry two days before it came out in the papers and they seemed absolutely fine , ’ he says . |
| 11 | So you 're filtering it before it goes in the machine and still we 're saying , why do n't we filter it as it comes out the machine , before it goes back in the tank . |
| 12 | Even if output continues to decline at a similar pace in this quarter before it picks up in the next ( as most forecasters expect ) , the total peak-to-trough decline will look much shallower than the 2.7% average drop in GNP during the eight recessions since the second world war . |
| 13 | Julian Russell was working on the Greek cruiser Oceanos when it went down in the Indian Ocean . |
| 14 | The Irish tag was redeemed for a small reward and it was only when it arrived back in the Central Fisheries Board office , Dublin , that Sea Angling Officer , Peter Green , discovered that a new distance record had been set for their shark tag scheme . |
| 15 | But the character of the report as it turned out in the end owed a great deal to Sir William Beveridge himself , who determined to make a ‘ crusade ’ out of it for the sake of the achievement of social reform . |
| 16 | He waited tactfully with Catherine and the young constable on the embankment , liking the sweep of the country as it spread out in the raw , cold day . |
| 17 | When she was alone on the terrace , she found herself staring fixedly at a cockroach as it scuttled around in the heat , then got up and hammered it to death with her shoe . |
| 18 | For it crops up in the Rock-Drill Canto 87 , in the 1950s : |