Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [conj] [vb past] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone who has received an object in exchange is like a buyer ; and so is someone who has received it in payment or retained it after settlement of a law suit or obtained it on the basis of a promise otherwise than as a gift . |
| 2 | This stated that the government had lost the confidence of the majority in parliament and urged it to resign . |
| 3 | He carefully wrapped the picture in trollskin and stowed it in his saddlebag , along with the others . |
| 4 | ‘ No , I too noted the King 's change in mood but dismissed it for King Alexander was an excitable , changeable man . |
| 5 | Once you have the motherboard in place and wired it up then you have to commission the machine just as if it was new . |
| 6 | So he , he thought he 'd do an experiment , er he took a small piece of radium which he 'd extracted from several tons of pitchblende and he put this bit of radium on his forearm and , and put a bandage round to hold it in place and left it there for a week and said right I 'll see what happens . |
| 7 | The man quickly replaced the back of the cassette , screwed it in place and shoved it back into its box . |
| 8 | They then wrapped it in linen and concealed it about their person : to jade a horse they touched him in the pit of the shoulder with the frog 's bone : to release the horse they touched him on the rump . |
| 9 | I was still terrified , but even more frightened of my aunt , so I worked out something to say in advance and blurted it out . |
| 10 | I preserved the worm in alcohol and despatched it to Dr Herring in the hope that he could identify it ; I 'll be interested to find out exactly what it is . |
| 11 | Florey continued his interest in lysozyme and furthered it both by collaboration with the professor of organic chemistry , Sir Robert Robinson ( 1886–1975 ) and by recruiting an enthusiastic and skilful biochemist E. B. ( later Sir Ernst ) Chain ( 1906–1979 ) . |
| 12 | Michael 's younger sister found him a fidget in church and thought it was fidgeting to excess . |
| 13 | In 1838 , he was offered a knighthood for his achievements in commerce but refused it , the second of old John Tennant 's sons to have done so . |
| 14 | While they were drinking tea , Joanna regaled them with her story of her stay in hospital and made it all seem a huge joke . |
| 15 | When they returned to the turreted stable block , Victoria was taught how to lead a pony in hand and walked it around the stable proudly . |
| 16 | Robin Cook , the shadow trade and industry secretary , said the Government had put forward the biggest tax increases for any Budget in history and described it as a ‘ Budget of failure and a Budget of cheats ’ . |
| 17 | The voice that came back to him was unlike hers in tone but matched it in substance , ‘ Where do you think I am ? |
| 18 | The Ashleys decorated it plainly in white and left it as bare as possible , apart from two rails which could hold up to 500 garments . |
| 19 | She grabbed her train of thought just in time and hauled it back . |
| 20 | Desert Orchid was beaten , but ahead of him two brave steeplechasers were fighting out a stirring finish , and fifty yards from the line the no-hoper , the candidate for last place rather than first , stuck his plain-looking chestnut head in front and kept it there . |