Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] in [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Want to come in for a minute ? " |
| 2 | Experience with rural advice in the north east area has shown that telephone advisers become skilled at solving basic problems over the phone and recognising those where the client needs to come in to a bureau for in-depth advice . |
| 3 | It was obviously dishonest and disingenuous to try to cash in on a film dealing realistically with labour problems and then to hang the whole action on the villainy of professional racketeers specializing in encouraging strikes before helping to break them . |
| 4 | It started when a man working in the sorting office was suspended for refusing to stand in for a colleague who 'd gone sick . |
| 5 | I have been doing some work for a national charity recently and the director and one of the key office-bearers can not stand sight or sound of SARAH , which was a trifle awkward when she rang up once or twice ‘ wanting to pop in for a chat at your new office ’ . |
| 6 | Firemen were called to the river Taff in Llandaff to rescue Eric , a 10-stone Irish Wolfhound who had got into deep water after deciding to go in for a swim . |
| 7 | I 'd like to go in for a bit , but there 's loads of people in there and I ai n't got no washing to do . |
| 8 | Hello er , I 'm phoning on behalf of Mrs Ada er she 's got to come in for a scan on the fourth of February , nine o'clock , now we 've only just got back from the hospital today , cos she oh , she had to go today for one , yeah , and we 've just |
| 9 | ‘ I would n't wear muddy hunting boots if I was going to climb in through a bedroom window and murder a lady , ’ said Ethel . |
| 10 | She 's not like thirty four weeks and the baby 's only twenty six and she 's got to stay in for a week at Southwood , then come home weekends and go back in . |
| 11 | It was Terry Rickards saying that he would like to drop in for a chat with Mr Dalgliesh if it would n't be too much bother and would nine be convenient ? |
| 12 | Ken , if we could er look at what 's actually happening out there to pensioners at the moment , I think of which we 're all very concerned , but there has been a small item of good news to balance against the concerns we have for those pensioners that are still suffering from uncertainty and that is some money has started to come in as a result of legal actions and settlements out of court . |
| 13 | They were preparing to check in for a flight to Tokyo . |
| 14 | He admired them duly and was forced to join in with a chorus of auld lang syne downstairs . |
| 15 | She had been accepted for the job at Ardis & Co , looking the way she normally looked , but if to keep her job — and she had no idea at that stage whether there was a Vasey junior , or similar , at G Vasey Ltd — she had to go in for a bit of de glamorisation , then so be it . |
| 16 | If you 'd care to come in for a cup of tea , now that you 've got out and everything , you 'd be most welcome . |
| 17 | Terrifically glad if you could bear to look in for a drink the next time you 're in town . |
| 18 | The company is hoping to cash in on a niche — fault-tolerant personal computing — that has been largely overlooked by traditional players like Tandem Computer Inc and Stratus Computer Inc , by offering low cost PC-based fault-tolerant systems to the market . |
| 19 | And she had to sign in about a card and that sort of |
| 20 | For the first six months they have to live in at a training centre . |
| 21 | For ages he had been meaning to call in at a place down by the Elephant and Castle where they sold gramophone parts , but it was not until this morning that he had finally got around to it . |