Example sentences of "in it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was wittily said by a bright genius , who observed another to labour in the composition of a discourse he was to deliver in public , that such a painstaker was fitter to make a pulpit than to preach in it . |
| 2 | There is a unity and perfection in it of an incommunicable kind . |
| 3 | In it this English master printmaker wrote lucidly and well about the range of possibilities in his profession . |
| 4 | I indulge in it now because the audiences who heard them endured , with much patience , extremes of heat and cold . |
| 5 | The novel ( or so I hope ) signals a separation between author and narrator with its very first sentence : ‘ The World is what it is ; men who are nothing , who allow themselves to become nothing , have no place in it . ’ |
| 6 | Their relationship has tenderness in it , and treachery . |
| 7 | It has people in it , with lives to live . |
| 8 | It has Charles in it , whose plight is more touching than anything in the nineteenth-century retrospects of Chatterton . |
| 9 | They are pieces of writing which are distinct in law ; the author of the one could not be sued for the other , or for collaborating in it . |
| 10 | A World Apart is a ‘ truly golden ’ work , despite the presence in it , apparently , of a foul anti-Semitism . |
| 11 | Herling is thought to resemble Dostoevsky , whose Prototypical prison book , The House of the Dead , has in it a mansion tenanted by obnoxious , caricatured Jews . |
| 12 | Galsworthy gives very precise details on the dimensions of the cell , the things that are in it and the character 's sequence of actions . |
| 13 | Co-presented the play The Beastley Beatitudes of Balthazar B as well as starring in it . |
| 14 | The Irish state apparatus is certainly secular : priests have no role in it . |
| 15 | In it they asserted quite clearly that permitting divorce would certainly affect the stability of all Irish marriages because it rendered every Irish marriage dissoluble : ‘ It is as though the legal availability of divorce builds up a social pressure which , for large numbers of people , becomes stronger than moral or religious resistance ’ ( abridged version , Irish Times , 14 May 1986 ) . |
| 16 | I told you , I said to him , I suddenly did n't see any point in it . |
| 17 | Your heart was never in it , I said to him later . |
| 18 | Hold up the glass to such viewers , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , and let them see themselves in it . |
| 19 | That he neither really sees nor is really torn , that he can not enter the world of either comedy or tragedy , neither O brave new world that hath such people in it , nor Dark dark dark beneath the blaze of noon . |
| 20 | I do n't want anyone to get lost in it , I said . |
| 21 | So there must have been something in it to hold my attention for so long . |
| 22 | Perhaps there is still something in it , but not for me , he wrote . |
| 23 | Perhaps there is still something in it , but I can no longer see it . |
| 24 | I 've lost interest in it , I said . |
| 25 | ‘ Generally frozen pasta has whole egg in it , giving it a softer , smoother texture which goes well with cream and lighter tasting sauces . ’ |
| 26 | Rémoulade has to have plenty of strong Dijon mustard in it . |
| 27 | They were no longer in it . |
| 28 | There were six of them , five with small slices taken out and the sixth with the knife still in it . |
| 29 | They 'd been in it only a year , but Mrs Yardley had lavished as much effort on it as she had on her beautiful cake . |
| 30 | I told him they danced very intimate-like , with her twigging his ear and whispering in it , and dancing closer and closer . |