Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [conj] [vb base] it " in BNC.

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1 The senses provide the means through which they drink in experience and personalise it .
2 ‘ Might I just put my ego in formalin and send it to him ? ’
3 However , on the last service I had to check the tappets — after removing the rocker cover the only way I could turn the engine over was to put the car in gear and push it backwards .
4 Karen Rigby , regional director of MacIntyres said ‘ She wanted to come and see the project in action and keep it all very informal . ’
5 Bear in mind that see it but it 's more likely to pass on energy units , because it 's the stronger , you know .
6 At the end of July , with Responsions successfully behind him as well as a happy celebratory birthday outing for Helen spent with Harry and Janet , Edward was still as hesitant as in his early letters to Hooton : ‘ May I bring a paper in manuscript and talk it over with you ?
7 He had realised , for instance , when Martha was born , that he would do well to take flowers to the hospital , but not that if you buy an azalea in winter and carry it on a bus and through a number of cold streets , all the buds will drop off before you arrive .
8 Marine bacteria take up DNA floating freely in seawater and dismantle it , experiments off the coast of Florida have shown .
9 Acting Detective Superintendent Mick Cox says they realize the girl could be in danger but believe it 's necessary to broadcast the recording .
10 Acting Detective Superintendent Mick Cox says they realize the girl could be in danger but believe it 's necessary to broadcast the recording .
11 My Lords , could I ask the Minister if she would agree that there have been some improvements in the accident and emergency departments , since consultants were appointed and how many accidents that er there are emergency departments have not got consultants in charge and leave it to junior doctors ?
12 I had wrapped the vase carefully in newspaper and put it in a string bag , which I slung over my shoulder .
13 And they 're that bit better than you because they 're able to organise themselves and they do more in day and do it longer and so and so forth .
14 They were very attractive and they did have the advantage that you could take them down and plunge the whole thing in water and wash it and er
15 I 'll give the girl quarter of a grain of morphia dissolved in water and inject it to calm her down .
16 So instead they have two openings on the upper surface of the head that take in water and lead it straight to the gills .
17 Soak a piece of bread in water and dab it on both sides of the cloth .
18 It is best to work out a pattern in advance and draw it out on same graph paper .
19 It is possible to take a stretch of language which someone has used in communication and treat it as a sentence for a translation exercise , or an object for grammatical analysis .
20 Disconnect each wire in turn and label it if you know its identity .
21 Hawkins read it , smiled broadly and handed it to Talbot , who glanced at it , smiled in turn and read it out aloud .
22 even in bed and find it so intelligent ?
23 But whenever she 'd been free to emigrate , she 'd fallen in love and put it out of the question .
24 In this document the case for the nationalisation of key industries was argued on practical grounds in each instance : thus ‘ public ownership of the fuel and power industries ’ would ‘ bring great economies in operation and make it possible to modernise production methods and to raise safety standards ’ ; ‘ public ownership of inland transport ’ would mean ‘ co-ordination of transport services by rail , road and canal ’ ; and the iron and steel industry would become efficient ‘ only if public ownership replaces private monopoly ’ .
25 As they wrote out a ticket 30-year-old Pere Costa smashed the car 's windows , doused it in petrol and set it on fire before walking home yesterday and leaving the police to deal with the blaze .
26 okay , okay erm yeah although normally you could do something like that while you can do that by phone you can call up and say yes we 're coming definitely just to get in touch and say it .
27 It needs vision to foresee what the finished product will look like , but it also needs skill , to set the process in motion and maintain it with economy of effort .
28 They continued to keep the book in print and supply it .
29 But do allow the cake to cool completely in the tin , covered with a tea towel to keep it moist , then wrap it in foil and keep it tightly wrapped once cut .
30 Their sense of tradition is also very strong and instead of dying out in 1951 when enthusiasm was beginning to wane a little , it was revitalised when Stanley Robshaw took it in hand and set it firmly on its feet again .
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