Example sentences of "[vb past] it in its " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kragan moved his hand over the butt of his revolver and loosened it in its holster . |
| 2 | ‘ It did not catch my foot , for I was already wheeling away , but it crashed down on my wing and caught it in its grip . |
| 3 | The metaphor of the spider has here replaced that of the flies , engulfed it in its web . |
| 4 | Since the Second World War , however , nearly every rich man , on making his fortune , has bought an old house and refurbished it in its period style . |
| 5 | ‘ You knew it in its best days , Mrs Thorne . ’ |
| 6 | One of the women pierced it in its tenderest place . |
| 7 | As the Local Government Chronicle put it in its leading article of 1 November : ’ To introduce poll tax is a mistake , to bring in council tax is a disaster . ’ |
| 8 | She replaced it in its case . |
| 9 | I removed the record and replaced it in its glossy sleeve . |
| 10 | Lord Hunt , at the time a young official in the Dominions Office , offered a similar interpretation in his 1983 survey of what had happened to Cabinet government since Lloyd George and Hankey invented it in its modern form . |
| 11 | The conditions were difficult , conceded It in its report of the night , ‘ yet the films went on . |
| 12 | Once we finally identified the leaked document , we countered in the most conclusive way known in politics : we published it in its entirety . |