Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a diversion , which would allow time for the passing of the trembling , I reached into my pocket , pulled out the tin of rubbers , and tried to open it in the dark . |
| 2 | Mr Roberts said when the men were arrested , Angela Wolfe , 18 , of Thompson Street West , Darlington , Drummond 's girlfriend took £14,267 to Newcastle where she tried to put it in a safety deposit box . |
| 3 | And then she tried to put it in the washing machine for a joke and the dog was gon na get in . |
| 4 | So that that just stopped did it in the end . |
| 5 | A second grenade went off under another vehicle as army explosives specialists tried to defuse it in the nearby New Lodge Road district … |
| 6 | Many , however , came to accept it in the context of their hopes for future labour success : capitalist bureaucracy was undesirable , but when labour came to dominate Parliament , the bureaucracy would act in sympathy with the needs and condition of the working class and would no longer be regarded as an alien intrusion . |
| 7 | He 'd seen it in a junk-shop in Edinburgh and brought it all the way down . |
| 8 | Well only because we 'd seen it in the shop |
| 9 | It was a look she recognised instantly , although it was the first time she 'd seen it in the flesh . |
| 10 | It was thoughtless of Miguel to take the vehicle — but maybe he 'd needed it in a hurry . |
| 11 | He 'd bought it in the Bazaar from an Indian trader who told him it would make the muscle grow . |
| 12 | He said he learnt to do it in the field during the Falklands War . |
| 13 | Much bigger than she 'd imagined it in the dark . |
| 14 | The wedding-dress was in the faded green trunk , just as he 'd imagined it in the night . |
| 15 | Well apparently it had gone to Andrew , and , Andrew had cos Andrew is n't in the office all the time , and he 'd left it in the office , and I think they faxed it by th Andrew was gon na talk to somebody about it , but of course , by the time he 'd got there , it 'd already been done and this had happened so I 'm gon na ring erm Job Centre when I get home . |
| 16 | I 'd kept it in the bottom of my bra-and-pants drawer ever since I stole it from Dad . |
| 17 | The obvious thing to do is raise income tax , but the Government pledged to reduce it in the election manifesto — just after the commitment to the exchange rate mechanism ( ERM ) . |
| 18 | 13–1–1906 They had under consideration the question of using the Hymnary in the public worship and agreed to use it in the summer if there was no serious collection among the people . |
| 19 | Enlightened bureaucrats sought to put it in the hands of a newly created ministry ; conservatives proposed transferring it from the liberal Ministry of Education to the Ministry of Internal Affairs . |
| 20 | He extended his arm fully and began to waggle it in an arc across the faces of the congregation . |
| 21 | For a fraction of a second , a strange , satanic glitter lit up Lucie 's eyes and his fist clenched and he began to punch it in the air . |
| 22 | If it is a popular tune , its spread through the meme pool may be gauged by the number of people heard whistling it in the streets . |
| 23 | The ship reached the coastline just after sunrise and began to follow it in a south-easterly direction down to the sea . |
| 24 | Afghans have always killed each other in a small way , and started to do it in a big way only when foreign armies , money and weapons became involved . |
| 25 | The local name of the place , the Gold Pit , implies that a good deal of gold was robbed from the site before the French archaeologists started excavating it in the 1920s , and there is good reason to suppose that the so-called Aegina Treasure , which is now in the British Museum , originated here . |
| 26 | Fortunately , the corner hedge of an adjacent field was in a direct line with the site , so I moved forward a few paces , switched on my metal detector and started swinging it in an arc before me . |
| 27 | They decided to price it in the middle of the range , at the ‘ black label ’ level , but they issued the actual record with a special Royal Purple design . |
| 28 | I thumbed through the aeroplane magazine looking for articles on pre-ski protuberances — curiously there were none , and we decided to ignore it in the hope that it would go down roughly when the plane did . |
| 29 | I went to fetch it in the van . |
| 30 | They may not have a reason to prefer one way of going about things to another , but the fact that they chose to do it in a particular way gives them a reason to prefer that way from now on . |