Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] it in the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Crawling over , Trent pulled his small matt-black throwing-knife out of the man 's throat , cleaning the blade before replacing it in the sheath between his shoulder-blades . |
| 32 | This is normally accompanied by the equally widespread concentration on the factual content or the basic manipulative skills in the material and the associated neglect of the higher-level objectives that were probably the author 's main motivation in developing it in the first place . |
| 33 | Gary McKeown slanted over an inviting ball , but it was criminal negligence for the visitors to allow Gary Paterson the time and space to chest the ball down before burying it in the net . |
| 34 | Gary McKeown slanted over an inviting ball , but it was criminal negligence for the visitors to allow Gary Paterson the time and space to chest the ball down before burying it in the net . |
| 35 | We must assume that someone wants to see a recording , otherwise there was no point in recording it in the first place . |
| 36 | I tidy and vacuum the sitting room after she 's gone to bed — I do n't see any point in doing it in the morning because it 'll only get messed up again . |
| 37 | He said he did n't know what the UK operation would look like after the restructuring but said most resources would be concentrated in Switzerland : ‘ support and marketing is here , so there 's not much point in having it in the UK too . ’ |
| 38 | Our deductive practice needs no such justificatory shoring up and can not be revised by rational argument , hence there is no circularity in deploying it in the explanation . |
| 39 | It is always wise to examine a flower very carefully before placing it in the blotting paper as if it contains any tiny insects they will think they are being provided with a picnic lunch and eat their way through the contents of your press ! |
| 40 | I stopped about two metres down from the summit and quietly cocked the gun , inspecting the composite steel and nylon pellet before placing it in the chamber and snicking the gun closed . |
| 41 | ‘ I just wandered around and watched for a few minutes , to see how things were done , ’ she said over her shoulder , stowing a small block of fresh Parmesan in an airtight container before putting it in the fridge . |
| 42 | Soler argued that the higher altitude of the Guadix area ( 900–1100m above sea level ) had prevented cuckoos from colonizing it in the past , as the species seems to favour lowland below 500m ( but see ref. 9 ) . |
| 43 | The imposition of a curriculum from above will not mean , if assurance given by politicians is to be believed , that teachers will be prevented from delivering it in the way they think most appropriate . |
| 44 | This is a factor which the police are used to taking into account and [ there should be ] no difficulty in weighing it in the balance along with many other factors . ’ |
| 45 | The first guideline is very important , not only for reducing your weight now but for controlling it in the future . |
| 46 | Many businessmen fear that , while Peking may stick to its open door and reform policy in name , officials responsible for implementing it in the southern provinces may lose their jobs as hardliners attempt to tighten their political grip . |
| 47 | Since launching it in the late 1980s , Microsoft has sold over 25m copies . |
| 48 | Forest manager Brian Clough insists on keeping it in the family after Liverpool boss Graeme Souness had made a move for Nigel . |
| 49 | But if the physical violence that Dick Francis writes of so well , without glorying in it , without dismissing it in the way cruder writers do as they allow a hero to leap into action after some terrible beating-up if this does not fire your imagination you can still write suspense novels that will satisfy readers every bit as well . |
| 50 | You never come near to suspecting it in the North . |
| 51 | Time is regarded as a crucial aspect of experience in English , so that it is virtually impossible to discuss any event in English without locating it in the past , present , or future . |
| 52 | The emergence of the stream-of-consciousness novel at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries was obviously related to a huge epistemological shift in culture at large , from locating reality in the objective world of actions and things as perceived by common sense , to locating it in the minds of individual thinking subjects , each of whom constructs their own reality , and has difficulty in matching it with the reality constructed by others . |
| 53 | The bird has become very unfit , and the damaged wing is shorter than the other , so I 've been working on moving it in the way the bird would move it in flight , to stretch it . |
| 54 | To compel a pupil to obey a teacher makes no sense without placing it in the context of compulsory schooling enforced legally . |
| 55 | If the post is a pivotal one , consideration should even be given to advertising it in the local press and community newspapers . |
| 56 | There was ‘ Pooper Scooper ’ Watkins , a young woman who insisted not only on picking up her dog 's faeces with a see-through plastic glove , but also on waving it in the faces of passers-by in order to emphasize her ecological soundness . |
| 57 | Sam said , ‘ You 'll be taking my sodding job next , ’ without meaning it in the least , and Nolan , bitter-eyed and cursing , saw Tremayne 's warning glare and subsided with festering rancour . |
| 58 | But I mean like I did n't think it was worth putting it in The Post to start off with anyway . |
| 59 | So we hid it somewhere really good , where nobody 'd think of looking ! — Anyway , it do n't matter about putting it in the bank now , does it ? |
| 60 | And I 've gone off making it in the morning . |