Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] in on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Gran has joined in on the act . |
| 3 | Mind , he 'd crashed in on the situation pretty damn quickly , stepping in and being nice to her almost before she had dried her eyes , trying to get her on the rebound . |
| 4 | Juan Sosa , former Panamanian ambassador in Washington , said that , if the US had been ‘ more active ’ , several battalions of wavering Panamanian troops would have joined in on the rebel side . |
| 5 | A tidy desk and behind it a man who might have come in on the Saturday afternoon for extra work . |
| 6 | We may have zeroed in on the difference , but so what ? |
| 7 | They 've been working very hard , in some cases long hours I think it 's right because this is a similar discussion we had by Public Protection Committee about a report and the main thing about the report is to find ways in which this could be avoided and that we could take such action as necessary and obviously some matters to avoid such a happening again but having said that other parts of West Sussex have always tended to be erm when you get excess rain erm you tend to get flooded in on the train many times some houses have got boats down the bottom of their garden and it 's not just now it 's been flooded , but it has been flooded in more recent times and that 's probably something we should be looking at . |
| 8 | As the freak end of the underground had dropped in on the LSE , so the politicos , or would-be politicos , packed their bags for Alexandra Palace . |
| 9 | She swam and sunbathed , went sightseeing , worked on her designs , talked brightly on the phone with Lucy , or Dad or Charles whenever they rang her , forcing herself not to ask whether Guy had moved in on the firm yet , and then wincing when Lucy said that he 'd made his mark in a dramatic emergency board meeting , put up the backs of most of the board of directors when he announced sweeping measures to increase profitability , cut overheads … |
| 10 | Wainfleet added that although the police had closed in on the area they had missed Sniffy . |
| 11 | They 've got in on the shelves there . |
| 12 | The Land Rover 's motor was already running when he arrived in the street , and when Hennessy had clambered in on the passenger side Windeler moved off without even waiting to see if the door was secure . |
| 13 | Then he remembered the time that he had walked in on the Politburo meeting and arrested Beria . |
| 14 | And in any case , if he recovered he 'd spend his life looking for Vecchi , if that party had muscled in on the black . |
| 15 | A major supermarket has just unveiled four new Teenage Mutant Hero Turtle pizzas and Dr Mumby says the way the foodmakers have jumped in on the Turtle band-wagon is wrong . |