Example sentences of "in it and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Galsworthy gives very precise details on the dimensions of the cell , the things that are in it and the character 's sequence of actions . |
| 2 | It was a rather rickety affair that creaked embarrassingly when I sat down in it and ever after when I moved . |
| 3 | She 'd put a fifty-pound note in it and so she thought that it had been stolen . |
| 4 | Well yes , in so far as it 's a question of degree , though if Crime and Punishment really is the king of thrillers then there 's something unique to remark in it and even to wax a bit pompous about . |
| 5 | Tweed , the Liberal election agent , ‘ knew … that it was not illness or the tedium of a long convalescence which kept him out , but that his heart was not in it and that confronted with the serried ranks of vested interests which compose this new Government , his sympathies were as always with the bottom dogs … ' |
| 6 | There 's a few knots in it and it hurts a bit when she tugs the comb , but I do n't say nothing . |
| 7 | ‘ A Happy Christmas , Ma'am , ’ Phil oozed — the day that was in it and a little whiskey fortifying his courage . |
| 8 | There was a sensuousness about it that filled him with a desire to run shouting across it , to roll in it , to bury his face in it and sniff life out of its roots , to draw up his childhood from the green stems , to lie supine and shade his eyes from the sun and dream himself back into nature . |
| 9 | There simply is n't any dramatic , conflict in a story about a purported villain who wears a Beatle cap , drinks from a huge glass with fish in it and gazes out from his island home on the great blue sea as he waits for his pursuers , a pair of handsome would-be lovers who sing songs like ‘ We could of , we should of , perhaps we can . |
| 10 | He looked very nice in it and he did win the contest , so Ken did know what he was doing . |
| 11 | There was a tiny hole in it and it was spilling white blobs of polystyrene like grain . |
| 12 | After all , the postal map of London S.W.1 had been drawn with a special excrescence to enable Harrods to be included in it and thus avoid the ignominy of falling within the outer darkness of S.W.3 or 7 . |
| 13 | A house with a great man in it and an old woman and a cat , that runs itself ? ’ |
| 14 | She was not quick enough to be out of the room before Mrs Eckley was in it and found herself trapped by her between chair and door . |
| 15 | The heat was fierce that June — 102 degrees in the shade at one time — but Mrs Browning went out in it and seemed to have forgotten such scorching sun had once enervated her to the point of collapse . |
| 16 | When he built up one successful enterprise , he often lost interest in it and moved on to another . |
| 17 | I gave her another bottle of Arg Nit LM1 with less alcohol in it and she had an excellent response for 10 days , then the pains returned so she stopped the remedy and she was well for two weeks . |
| 18 | The first concerns the individual pupil 's curricular record , what is in it and who may see it . |
| 19 | It was a vague but important time in the cultural and social history of the western world , a good time for those who were in it and enjoying themselves , a bad time for those who were dismayed at ‘ young people today ’ . |
| 20 | I think there is a lot of immaturity in it and selfishness , putting yourself at great risk for a photograph , selfish in the sense of your family ; I 'm not so much worried about me as about the effect it will have on my parents , my children or my wife . |
| 21 | There was a young American photographer with me and I saw him get caught up in it and I pulled him aside and said ‘ Do n't even take it because that 's the picture that Newsweek is going to publish . |
| 22 | ‘ Perhaps I should tell you a little about myself , Mrs Wilson , ’ he said when the maid had gone , ‘ … a little about my family and Elsie 's place in it and how I come to be looking for her after such a long time . ’ |
| 23 | Near the sea there is a little park which has open-air cafés in it and I decided that I would go along there and read your letter while I relaxed with a cup of coffee . |
| 24 | I 'd have been in it and in those bars in Gibraltar giving it the big lips by last night . ’ |
| 25 | When she was handed the mug she dipped her fingers in it and began to splash Agnes 's face with the cold water . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm sorry , Rosalind , ’ Peggy began in a rather shaky voice , ‘ but your letter got damaged and the policeman did n't think it ought to go in the post with a tear in it and so we came — ‘ |
| 27 | Chapman could see no advantage in it and Buchan dismissed it as a ‘ stunt ’ . |
| 28 | Experienced volunteers thought that they should help with in-bureau tutoring ; among the few who knew what social policy work was , there were some who wanted to take more part in it and others who wanted more time to read in order to keep up to date . |
| 29 | The Reverend George R Wedgewood , later to be Vice-President of the Conference , lectured on the eighteenth century and the place of the Wesleys in it and the Reverend Mark Guy Pearse , colleague of Hugh Price Hughes of West London Mission , spoke on Cornwall . |
| 30 | I wrapped guilt around me like a thick overcoat , wallowed in it and even took shelter in it . |