Example sentences of "in it [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The path was narrow and rough with tussocky grass and she trod carefully , eyes straining ahead to where the path ended abruptly at the outer limits of the aerodrome , blocked by a high steel-mesh fence — a cruel fence to keep lovers apart — and no one else had discovered the break in it through which Rob always came .
2 We believe in a God who made this world and all in it as something beautiful to behold .
3 And finally just in terms of er public transport , I think it 's fair to say that there there 's probably little in it between them all because they 're all very poorly served by public transport .
4 I had your Gran on to me in a bit of a flap , saying she 'd put her foot in it about your mother . ’
5 In some cases it is appropriate to choose other rewards that are more motivating to children , like a surprise bag with little gifts in it into which children can place their hands and find a surprise .
6 I do n't know Guy liked it and he went in it without anything on .
7 It was not , as Elizabeth said , about herself and me — and yet there was something in it of our predicament , that of two correspondents who have never met .
8 To get there they had to cross the mud , and sank in it to their ankles , but below the soft surface the foreshore was hard here , and although it was a filthy journey it was n't particularly difficult .
9 Though he never idealised it or pretended it was anything but ‘ the rude rags of nature ’ , he saw things in it to which Crabbe was completely blind or hostile , and he felt their loss when change and ‘ improvement ’ came :
10 What seeped out of the and mixed with some air from there would have been a little dung in it to it stood half the summer and got to be really high .
11 Used to take a a basket with your bottle with tea and that in it to my father when we was .
12 ‘ What 's in it for me ? ’ was the favourite phrase of another .
13 What 's in it for me ?
14 I know someone , does n't work for us , quite independent , nothing in it for me , do n't worry about that .
15 So I thought I 'd tell you about this bit of niceness — and no , there 's not a free Bettencourt signature model in it for me .
16 Self reliance , individual enterprise , ‘ what 's in it for me ’ , as opposed to ‘ how can we help our neighbour ’ , was the message .
17 ‘ I adore the book although foolishly , there 's no acting part in it for me .
18 ‘ And this time there is an acting part in it for me .
19 But lots of other agendas are being ignored , like the ‘ What 's in it for me ? ’ factor .
20 ‘ One faces a decision , I guess at such times , about how far to go with company instructions , and since the spirit of such meetings only appeared to be correcting a horrible price level situation , that there was not an attempt to actually damage customers , charge excessive prices , there was no personal gain in it for me , the company did not seem actually to be defrauding , corporate statements can evidence the fact that there have been poor profits during all these years …
21 ‘ One faces a decision , I guess , at such times , about how far to go with company instructions , and since the spirit of such meetings only appeared to be correcting a horrible price level situation , that there was not an attempt to damage customers , charge excessive prices , there was no personal gain in it for me , the company did not seem actually to be defrauding … morally it did not seem quite so bad as might be inferred by the definition of the activity itself . ’
22 ‘ What 's in it for me ? ’
23 Though I know that the struggle is taking place somewhere , as a housewife I find it harder to believe that there is a part in it for me .
24 What 's in it for me ?
25 These perceptions will then be evaluated through a consideration of ‘ what 's in it for me ? ’
26 A asked ‘ What 's in it for me ? ’ and was told that he would receive £10,000 if W bought it for £100,000 or less .
27 Try to keep it as broad as you can to do the well alright then I know why it is , what 's in it for me .
28 But what 's in it for me ?
29 What 's in it for me ?
30 What it is in it for me ?
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