Example sentences of "[verb] in it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christine let him stew in it for a few moments . |
| 2 | They had been living in it for years . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ I 've got a soft spot for the league , because I played in it for many years . ’ |
| 4 | The acid fragrance upsets their delicate nasal passages and they avoid anything smeared in it for long periods of time . |
| 5 | What do you see in it for you ? |
| 6 | In a minute he would go and run a hot bath , luxuriate in it for ten minutes or so , and then get his head down . |
| 7 | Rachaela had played in it for hours , she was six , it had been oddly magical . |
| 8 | It must , he thought , have been decades since a fire was lit in it for warmth . |
| 9 | Lawyer D told her that a jointly-owned house would become the sole property of her husband after her death , and she could not in any way guarantee her share of the money invested in it for her children . |
| 10 | I always seem to get them at dawn , it 's something to do with the stuffiness of this room after I 've been locked in it for a night . |
| 11 | By now her hiding-place had become far too dangerous for her to remain in it for much longer . |
| 12 | But Protestant orthodoxy in the generations after the Reformation had inclined to treat the Bible in a rather hardened and absolute fashion , and to search in it for a wider range of information than the Reformers were looking for . |
| 13 | In its strongest form , at the perception of a new and beautiful poetic or religious idea , mystics and seers will fall into a trance and remain in it for hours or even days . |
| 14 | After instruction in the regulations of the ‘ prison ’ the volunteers were placed in it for nearly a week , and their reactions and behaviour observed . |
| 15 | Before the new names can go in the pot , the ones that have remained in it for the two years have to come out so , after a brief introduction by the chairman of the trustees and the vicar , the three keyholders leave the room to go next door to the church where the chest is kept . |
| 16 | The whole area had been covered with black polythene sheeting to keep down weeds , with a few slits cut in it for drainage . |
| 17 | When she was a teenager she used to go round wearing a blanket with a hole cut in it for her head . |
| 18 | A third option is to part-sell your home either for a capital sum or regular payments , under a home income plan , and continue to live in it for as long as you wish . |
| 19 | In March we marked John 's seven hundredth day by erecting a cell-like cage in Covent Garden and persuading as many famous people as possible to come and stand in it for half an hour while the press filmed them . |
| 20 | Anyone who indulged in it for its own sake was an out-and-out sinner — and that went for the resulting offspring , too . ’ |
| 21 | This is to inform you all that me and my Companions have Unanamously agreed and likewise made Oath to Each other that if There is not a speedy Altaration made for the Good of the poore that you have corn thinking to make your fortunes of shall have it burnt to the Ground whether it Be in Stacks or Barns for the fire that took place Last Week was but the begining of your Troble , we know every Stack of Corn about this Country , and Every Barn that hath Corn concealed in it for the Purpos of starving the Poore But we are Determind if thare is to Be Starvation it shall be a General thing not a parcial one for both Gentle and Simple shall Starve if any Do . |
| 22 | The town itself is peculiarly built , so that a person may live in it for years , and go in and out daily without coming into contact with a working-people 's quarter or even with workers , that is , so long as he confines himself to his business or pleasure walks . |
| 23 | Permission for building would be given only if the occupier of a new house would live in it for at least six months per year and was a person employed or to be employed locally . |
| 24 | And it 's proved itself on many expeditions — you could live in it for weeks . |
| 25 | What would she write in it for the week in which she visited the fire station ? |
| 26 | The symbol of this security was the masía — the solidly built farmhouse that dominated the landscape of rural Catalonia and often bore the name of the family that had lived in it for generations . |
| 27 | But that was only because I 'd lived in it for a long time and I got a discount so the house was really |
| 28 | This chamber is also unnaturally cold ; anyone who remains in it for one complete turn will take an automatic Wound unless they have some magical protection against cold . |
| 29 | The fact that we stayed in it for four seasons was not a little due to the . |
| 30 | He stood in it for fifteen minutes , until it rang on the dot of nine . |