Example sentences of "it in [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll leave it in her in-tray , shall I ? ’ |
| 2 | A woman shopper who received it in her change , noticed the forgery when the gold colouring began to rub off . |
| 3 | The black girl bent suggestively forward to slowly slide the lighted candle into her backside , and as she held it in her back passage , the whip effortlessly flicked out the flame . |
| 4 | She held it in her arms . |
| 5 | He placed it in her arms and she clutched it to her bosom , with her handbag , the toe of her right foot gingerly touching ground . |
| 6 | The farmer 's wife held it in her arms , so that it could not jump at me . |
| 7 | The mother cradled it in her arms . |
| 8 | She looked down into her lap , plucked a blade of grass , and twisted it in her fingers . |
| 9 | Got to be old age , I ca n't get it , she gets it in her name |
| 10 | For she had seen little enough evidence of it in her life so far . |
| 11 | She had never done it in her life before and she was n't about to start now , but he did n't know that , and as the mention of getting a lift had finally wiped that superior smile from his face she felt more than inclined to pursue it . |
| 12 | Had she chosen to continue her experimentation and non-repre sentational imagery , rather than suppressing it in her efforts to redirect the criticism , her contribution to the history of abstractionism in America might have been even more significant . |
| 13 | As Wilson puts it in her discussion of Asian women living in Britain , these relationships serve to ‘ cushion a woman against the harshness of her life ’ ( Wilson , 1978 , p. 7 ) . |
| 14 | She said it in her licence to kill voice , and Darren 's pale eyebrows wrinkled up towards her . |
| 15 | She wiped her face with his handkerchief and then held the handkerchief tightly , squeezing it in her fists . |
| 16 | The mother , who had dropped the paper in the bowl , dried it in her microwave for five minutes on high . |
| 17 | She had , almost casually and instinctively , demanded physical beauty in her lovers and had been unjealous and over-indulgent of it in her women friends . |
| 18 | She was not a woman to sound excited , but he picked up a thread of something like it in her voice . |
| 19 | Ruth heard it in her sleep at first , a far-off murmur that did n't seem to mean much . |
| 20 | She knew just what she had to do , knew the music perfectly , could sing it in her sleep , but now she felt , for the first time in years , she could bring something of herself , her personality , into her singing . |
| 21 | She could probably say it in her sleep . |
| 22 | He looked round for the phone , found it and took it to the woman , laying it in her lap . |
| 23 | She put it in her lap , and , her voice a thread , said , ‘ Yes , oh , yes , ’ and then , ‘ I did nothing to provoke it , nothing … |
| 24 | As this is a very basic form of learning it is unlikely that the clinical teacher will find any direct applications of it in her teaching . |
| 25 | To his grief , Donny 's widow would not find it in her heart to speak to him again . |
| 26 | Ronni knew it in her heart . |
| 27 | She found it in her wreath . |
| 28 | His voice was a husky purr of reassurance and the shapes of it in her head deepened to an indigo rock of security that she knew , without knowing how , was going to guard her . |
| 29 | She 'd gathered the fragrant blooms from a tub outside on the narrow balcony and deeply inhaled its sweet perfume before deciding to wear it in her hair . |
| 30 | The Countess forbade it in her will , knowing what the beginnings had been . |