Example sentences of "[adv] in it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | she 's obviously in it for the bet . |
| 2 | I was only in it for a lark . ’ |
| 3 | I 'm only in it for the fund-raising ! |
| 4 | They decided that he was only in it for himself and was not the sort of person the comrades wanted to have with them , and definitely not part of the consensus . |
| 5 | Kim 's only in it for the money . |
| 6 | ‘ I agree , but then he was only in it for the money . |
| 7 | But there does n't seem to be much in it for the peoples themselves . |
| 8 | If you are n't as good as if you were in church , the train wo n't come , and we sha n't go away in it to the ends of the earth . |
| 9 | ‘ Our house in London has been burgled but we were not in it at the time . |
| 10 | Having made the two , comes through to there , you just having clear of the metal work , you put , this is a three foot , just not in it at the moment . |
| 11 | ‘ There 's been a reversal to bands saying , ‘ We 're just in it for the music ’ , and we 're not like that at all . |
| 12 | He 's fallen over in it before now . |
| 13 | A number of significant figures were caught up in it for a while — the sculptor F. E. McWilliam , Tristram Hillier , John Tunnard . |
| 14 | It 's gone now , but at the time mentally handicapped patients were locked up in it for hours at a time . |
| 15 | It was almost as if his thoughts were not wholeheartedly in it for some reason . |
| 16 | And he took me out in it for a test drive . |
| 17 | Melanie did not know how Finn washed , when he washed , if he ever washed ; but Francie would sometimes fill an oval tin bath from kettles and saucepans boiled on the stove and sit impassively in it in the kitchen behind a locked door . |
| 18 | I pick up my barrel-bag and fish around in it for my purse , take out a five pound note and walk over , rolling the note up in my hand . |
| 19 | I walk around in it for a while anyway , watching myself approach in the mirror and admiring the way the skirt moves as I walk . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ As a mother I would n't want to buy milk with artificial BST in it for my children or grand children . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ As a mother I would n't want to buy milk with artificial BST in it for my children or grand children . ’ |
| 23 | Anyone who did n't get his leg over and smoke a few joints was n't in it as a normal human being . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ In the Oxford of the late Sixties , anyone who did n't get his leg over and smoke a few joints was n't in it as a normal human being ’ |
| 25 | We 're in the happy position of not needing any more money , so for the first time the bosses are n't in it for the profit . |
| 26 | They ventured under its rays for breakfast and tea and lolled about in it during the afternoons . |