Example sentences of "[adv prt] in it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's fallen over in it before now . |
| 2 | A number of significant figures were caught up in it for a while — the sculptor F. E. McWilliam , Tristram Hillier , John Tunnard . |
| 3 | It 's gone now , but at the time mentally handicapped patients were locked up in it for hours at a time . |
| 4 | And he took me out in it for a test drive . |
| 5 | I pick up my barrel-bag and fish around in it for my purse , take out a five pound note and walk over , rolling the note up in my hand . |
| 6 | I walk around in it for a while anyway , watching myself approach in the mirror and admiring the way the skirt moves as I walk . |
| 7 | When they 'd moved in he 'd made a point of telling just about everybody where it was and how much it was costing — wincing a little at the same time , as if he were telling the story against himself and his own folly — but it had become a sterile kind of heaven , and he sat around in it like some forgotten angel . |
| 8 | They ventured under its rays for breakfast and tea and lolled about in it during the afternoons . |