Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] in [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | The door was open and I did hear that much when I passed to go in to the ladies ' toilet . |
2 | I could feel my heart going boom-ba-di-boom — imagined my heart when it was dead , all its auricles and ventricles shrinking and wrinkling like burst balloons after my head got bashed in on the rocks . |
3 | President Berisha , however , has given in to the nationalists over the question of property restitution . |
4 | All the lights are up and cold air has come in with the officials . |
5 | More film roles are expected to come rolling in after the Oscars on 29 March , although Thompson claims she is a no-hoper for glamorous parts . |
6 | The boy tried to move in with the grandparents . |
7 | A midwinter day … the wind to the north , the sky in rags , hail whipping in from the islands in dark squalls . |
8 | He 'd got in with the punks and seen immediately what they were doing , what a renaissance this was in music . |
9 | ‘ I 'd got in amongst the sharks , filming them in a feeding frenzy . ’ |
10 | It was like nothing she had ever experienced before — she had always been aware she had the capacity for passion , but it was an element of her own make-up she had kept sternly suppressed , her mind refusing to give in to the demands of a young , healthy body . |
11 | ‘ so you really think , ’ she said , ‘ that that poor little chap is going to zoom in from the clouds and wipe us all out ? ’ |
12 | so we started called her lip , but that happened before I got there so , as I got there it just like , as I joined got in with the regulars it started to peter out a bit , but I got fooled with a couple of times I thought they were taking the piss , alright Lynn how you doing , you know , still . |
13 | Alerted by a grapevine of unparalleled efficiency to the presence of honkies with money , hitherto undiscovered talents began swarming in from the ghettos and down from the hills , bearing tape-recordings , even guitars , for impromptu auditions . |
14 | Fabbiano would not mind if he saw the girls beginning to blend in with the guests . |
15 | Inside our flat , small drifts of this sand began to blow in under the doors and through the cracks in the window frames . |
16 | She had not been allowed make-up ; if she had , at that age , developed any idea of herself as having rights simply by virtue of being a pretty girl , it must have crept in between the covers of some acceptable book . |
17 | To the right of the front panel the power and reset buttons are cleverly moulded to fit in with the contours of the case . |
18 | I did n't rate any chance of a retreat back down and could have so easily become trapped in between the pitches . |
19 | When we come out in the gully , go to the right and keep close in under the rocks , and you 'll be safe enough , for there 's a good overhang . ’ |
20 | So they have to make a choice : should they stay Japanese , or try to blend in with the locals ? |
21 | Relax and enjoy your garden on this pine bench which can be painted to blend in with the surrounds . |
22 | Marie , who is single , really enjoys mucking in with the lads . |
23 | It is not the student returning but a flood of visitors — a lady coming to teach Hungarian to students about to visit Budapest , a social worker sorting out a student with severe memory loss whose phone is about to be cut off , a personnel officer from the Civic Offices to recruit potential employees from students on the scheme and one or two others who just seem to have wandered in off the streets . |
24 | The train had come in from the sidings and stood in the station , warm and pulsing , its engines reattached , the horses and grooms on board and fresh foods and ice loaded . |
25 | They 've got in on the shelves there . |
26 | By a coincidence the letter had been waiting for her on her dressing-table when she had got in from the pictures the previous night , just after she had been thinking and talking of Hilda . |
27 | After two exhausting hours we had to give in to the flames . |
28 | The fire by which we sat , Mrs Browning in front , I to one side , consisted mainly of a branch of beech which she had brought in from the woods : the thick end was in the fireplace , surrounded by burning twigs cosseted into flame by Mrs Browning , who puffed upon them with a pair of leather bellows when they faltered , and the other end , in shape and size rather like the antlers of a deer , reached out into the room . |
29 | Those hoping to cash in on the warrants issued with their shares may find the free gift is now an expensive invitation to buy . |
30 | You know this sort of thing and all British wildlife has got its own little characters , every species is different er and you know thousands of animals we 've taken in over the years we 've just learnt different things about different animals that suit different animals . |