Example sentences of "[verb] in [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | The people who are seizing and occupying the present time can not belong in my colour , they 're like the bits that leap out of a spinning bowl , too heavy , too separate and distinct to be blended in with the other substances ; red-hot stones , flung out and setting on fire the place where they land . |
2 | It crept in amongst the ordered ranks of hieroglyphics in a simple line of graffiti , scrawled in French , on the hull of one of the royal barques : " You must not forget me . " |
3 | Andre had fallen in with the legendary Lafons of Meursault — Dominique Lafon was at college at the same time , and Lafon pere had become something of a mentor . |
4 | GM schools will be able to change their character if that is what parents clearly want and the change fits in with the wider needs of the local area . |
5 | Parents and teachers usually judge children 's behaviour by whether it fits in with the usual standards — moral , emotional , social and intellectual — set by the society in which they live . |
6 | ‘ No doubt , ’ said Mr Harold Brooks-Baker of Burke 's , ‘ it fits in with the freer ways of today but some feel that freedom is an over-used word . |
7 | We 've plunged in with the practical details rather than training itself . |
8 | In this case we were lucky and the route had been re-equipped with new bolts placed in between the old bolts . |
9 | The world of motor racing loves to surround itself in secrecy … what goes in to the automatic gearboxes … suspensions and highly tuned engines is more to do with science than sport … |
10 | Trim them back , dead-head regularly and bring in before the first frosts and you should have flowers for months to come |
11 | The dots are filled in with the appropriate names like this : |
12 | Abercrombie 's broad-brush strategy was now filled in with the complementary prescriptions for design at the local scale , both central areas and residential districts . |
13 | Mike needs to be filled in on the latest developments . ’ |
14 | When this happens it is time to celebrate and consider all the various offers raining in from the major labels . |
15 | Other sounds caught in between the meaningless words . |
16 | A bolero for example , is really just a short cardigan with curved front edges and crossover cardigan just has extra width built in to the front pieces so that they overlap each over . |
17 | Outside two young men peered in at the lighted women with their bottles and Jonquil 's cans of Carlsberg . |
18 | In January of 1825 Barratt had decided upon an ambitious and costly project ; a deep adit level to be driven as a cross-cut , some 230 yds. downstream from Taylor 's Level into the eastern bank of Red Dell Beck and in a northerly direction , to come in below the old workings and to explore the vein , especially below that section expected to be opened up by Taylor 's . |
19 | When they are in moult they often sit ashore on the rocks , when their dark brown plumage blends in with the dark rocks . |
20 | It was a slow , infuriating process , and as A roads gave way to B and Robyn neared her destination already two hours late , the slowly darkening skies became as black and as desperate as Robyn 's frame of mind , until the heavens opened and it started to pour — not reasonable , perfectly acceptable drops of rain from a warm July sky , but pounding , penetrating torrents that battered and bounced off the roof of the jeep and seeped in through the ill-fitting windows . |
21 | This one was just about right , though it bulged our financial boundaries , and we moved in with the previous owners ' carpets and curtains and little else . |
22 | And Pilger , an exasperatingly prickly individualist determined to expose the ills of the world , stubbornly refused to lower his standards and fit in with the new requirements . |
23 | Many areas have special schemes which fit in with the particular needs of individual people at home . |
24 | A puppet government was moved in behind the Russian tanks . |
25 | Tonight , though , they rarely come across as well , because instrumental fluff and dead wood have crept in between the sharp spikes . |
26 | She slunk in through the French windows , hoping to creep upstairs unseen . |
27 | Each lesson is one hour in length and there is an hour break for lunch and a fifteen minute break in the morning after my first lesson and a ten minute break in between the two lessons in the afternoon . |
28 | There was a layer of grey-blue smoke in the room at about shoulder level , and a big wave in it , probably produced by me as I came in through the double doors of the back porch . |
29 | Back home , he dreamt , he filled the whole flat with buckets of earth , even filled soup dishes and the kettle and the wineglasses with soil , and spent hours watering them and moving them carefully around every day , carrying them from room to room so that they would be struck in turn by whatever sunshine came in through the different windows at different times of the day , making sure they were kept warm . |
30 | The tiny river sounds came in through the open hatches . |