Example sentences of "in [art] [noun sg] [coord] it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 This belief in ‘ independence ’ is well entrenched in the West and it has developed out of a general mistrust of centralized political power and of power that had historically not tolerated the free expression of dissenting views .
2 There was a lot of straw in the mattress and it had been filled recently so that it was pleasantly responsive .
3 It was our first time in the saddle and it had daughter , 11 , champing at the bit for more .
4 And if some , er , jus it was very thin slices of beef , topside of well I thought I 'll get some beef out , and I did it in the microwave and it cooked but it was it was quite tough .
5 well ha you , what you have is you have erm the ship , first of all you have the ship , it 's a plain ship on a white background , then you have the lights on a black background and then you have that blue bit in the middle but it takes three shots
6 I thought there used to be a set of traffic lights in the middle and it 's gone .
7 Then all I do is mix a lot of sawdust with the oil in the gear-box and it runs as sweet as a nut . ’
8 I mean that , that have to hold top and bottom , you put something in the soil and it gets all its nourishment in the soil and that
9 We was there till six o'clock in the afternoon and it took us from the er ten o'clock in the morning , say about ten when we got there , it took us from ten till six to fire five rounds of ammunition because there was that many there and you had to wait your turn .
10 When Endill opened the door they creaked in the draught and it reminded him of the old hanging tree beside the front gate back home at Gibbet Hall .
11 Only wych elm grew in the wood and it burned for me quite well when dry .
12 It was in the kitchen and it consisted of three panels side by side .
13 I mean , it 's partly I suppose because I do n't watch a lot of football , but women 's football is not generally , it 's occasionally you get an article in the press and it 's seen as a kind of freakish thing !
14 But Granddad Jack er put my red tractor away in the dump and it got smashed , smashed up by a digger .
15 no , that 's a bad one , the er power supply to the machine , the lead it was , there was a break in the circuit and it kept going on and off , so actually I was switching it on right , it just was n't coming on , so she says oh use it by the battery cos its battery as well as electric
16 My husband kicked it in the chest and it flew off but returned shgortly after and attacked the smallest of the dogs pinning it against a stile
17 It 's like I took a completed album of all kinds of different songs and threw it up in the air and it came crashing down .
18 ‘ Honest , I 'd never seen 'im before , I just bumped into 'im in the fog and it made me sprain me ankle .
19 He imagined being shot in the water and it closing over his head , filling his mouth and lungs , the last moments of life choked out of him .
20 Well I studied an art class in the school and it took me twenty five minutes to walk from my house .
21 Answer guide : The reason for choosing this example is that this particular area is subject to rapid changes in technology which make estimation of useful life extremely difficult as in many cases there is still utility in the asset but it has been superseded by a ‘ better ’ alternative .
22 That 's right , yes and actually I 'll digress to tell you ssh that erm this poem is published in a book by Ted Hughes a book called Poetry in the Making and it comes from a chapter called Capturing Animals .
23 It might have been all right in the past but it does n't work now . ’
24 In general , such an injunction will be granted only when offences have been committed in the past and it appears that mere prosecution will not deter further breaches of the law in the future .
25 The inhibiting effect of sedimentation on corals has been stressed in the past and it has been said that the absence of corals from the mouths of large rivers , for example those of south-east Asia , is due to the amount of fine suspended sediment .
26 Because people are so angry , they 're frustrated with the system and their anger gets in the way and it frightens people .
27 There 's this big depot ship in the loch and it 's got a flotilla of submarines …
28 I am being set up in the ward and it occurs to me that I am feeling fine .
29 It was in the end but it took
30 I do n't think we actually used any of them in the end but it has got that cinematic imagery to it . ’
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