Example sentences of "[adv prt] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They would break in in a trice , while you were putting fresh shot in your fowling gun , and cut us into mincemeat . |
| 2 | The Marine Commandos were well dug in in a wooded area just off the road and close to the village . |
| 3 | The Germans who have been facing us all these weeks have pulled out and are now dug in in a thickly wooded area about three-hundred yards from No. 4 Commando . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll be in in a second . ’ |
| 5 | Xanthe ambled in in a tousled yawning state and yesterday 's clothes and flopped into the empty chair beside Filmer . |
| 6 | His hobby was breeding bees and one day he brought them in in a glass cabinet and he was saying , ‘ These are the workers and this is the queen bee , and they fly out of the window and come back with pollen and they make honey . ’ |
| 7 | Newman 's trained reporter 's eye took all this in in a glance . |
| 8 | Carol Gilligan , in In a Different Voice : Psychological Theory and Women 's Development ( 1982 ) , examines psychological theories concerning human moral development , and suggests that a male model has been developed which does not fit the experiences of most women 's lives . |
| 9 | You 're to bring it in in a shovel . ’ |
| 10 | You could fit in in a number of ways . |
| 11 | I bought something very quickly in the area where we had planned to buy before , and moved in in a matter of weeks , decorating the place with the help of my mum and dad and furnishing it with the family 's cast-offs and a sofa-bed which Nick gave me . |
| 12 | that to him when the Celtic red mist 's before his eyes and he 's kicking your head in in a jealous rage , he thought . |
| 13 | Deputy Head brought child into school and was dealing with the incident in his office when the child 's Class Teacher burst in in a frenzied manner shouting that this was what she did n't want to happen and the child was getting too much attention . |
| 14 | Miranda will be coming in in a minute . |
| 15 | We 'll be sending one of our own men in in a few minutes . ’ |
| 16 | I very much regret that both the Syrians and the Lebanese stayed away from the multilaterals and that , although present , the Palestinians did not join in in a positive way . |
| 17 | The rest of us saw the year in in a hut halfway down the Greenstone valley ; the warden brewed her own beer , and brought us generous supplies of it ! |
| 18 | The way that we 've found it in this this year 's Liberal Democrat Conference was to actually put forward the suggestion that Regional Government could be brought in in a flexible sense . |
| 19 | It 's the latest run in in a dispute which has been rumbling on for some weeks betweenthe Post office and the National Communications union . |
| 20 | As I thought my parents would still be up , I asked him to come in in an attempt to stop him getting away . ’ |
| 21 | Faussone talks about ‘ the way we bent our elbows ’ — an expression ( for eating or drinking ) which I have heard spoken in English , but which I had never before seen written down in a book . |
| 22 | I ran down the pavement to get as far away from the hotel as I could , then I sat down in a doorway and continued crying . |
| 23 | Accordingly , when I arrived there , I settled down in a pew at the back and nodded off . |
| 24 | As song as you look after them , heavy soils will never let you down in a drought , will be naturally fertile and can be made to suit the widest range of plants . |
| 25 | Otherwise , if the wind is squally it may end up with the wrong wing down in a fierce cross wind . |
| 26 | Inevitably they come straight down in a few minutes looking rather sheepish ! |
| 27 | We settle ourselves down in a First Class cabin , lay our delicacies out on the table , open some wine and champagne , set the crayfish on to plates that do n't look paper , and eat , drink and devour vast quantities of pâté , hors d'oeuvre and champagne . |
| 28 | A much easier alternative is to come here on a summer bank holiday weekend , join the queue and be winched down in a bosun 's chair courtesy of various caving clubs . |
| 29 | ‘ She looked Max and I up and down in a most condescending manner . |
| 30 | CAPTAIN Mirko Pintar stormed out of the cockpit and sat down in a passenger seat . |