Example sentences of "[verb] in [prep] the [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keep tucked in behind the side always said to you , the bloke in the front , mate , he does all the donkey work , picking up drags you round do n't it ? |
| 2 | And it 's being pencilled in for the weekend after Wigan are due to defend their world sevens title in Sydney on February 5-7 . |
| 3 | And some of these were found in Bristol harbour er and the pattern of the cloths was pressed in to the lead so we were able to put a microscope to that and see how it should be woven . |
| 4 | You 've got ta get the stu the smell goes in to the liquid then you chuck the liquid away . |
| 5 | They must have been filled in at the bank either by Mr Hatton himself or else by the cashier who was attending to him . ’ |
| 6 | She sat at the table and painstakingly wrote down the sums of money that should have come in for the work already done . |
| 7 | I think , so it just blends in with the border round |
| 8 | Modigliani sketched a middle-aged couple in evening dress who had probably dropped in to the Rotonde late one night . |
| 9 | When we run the satellite sequence , you can see all the cloud that moved in from the west overnight and the good news is that the back edge is not too far away . |
| 10 | Distance and size , says Berkeley , are seen in the way that ‘ we see shame or anger in the looks of a man ’ ; though invisible themselves , these feelings are ‘ let in by the eye along with colours and alteration of countenance , which are the immediate objects of vision ’ . |
| 11 | Does he agree that the private sector electricity industry makes it ever more important that safeguards should be built in to the process so that the need factor and the environmental impact are taken into account ? |
| 12 | 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 … |
| 13 | The father-of-three from Whiston ( right ) was one of the visitors who dropped in at the Pumphouse yesterday where a Drinkwise Fun Day was underway . |
| 14 | She came in by the side-door just as the clients arrived , and , taking Joanna 's overall from the peg , she followed Sophie into the waiting-room . |
| 15 | Drop in at the Club later and exchange notes . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I was yes I er I got my degree in was qualified and er the hours they , they were offering happened to fit in with the family so I was quite glad to get the extra income . |
| 18 | Benny struggled to fit in with the saying accurately . |
| 19 | The result was that very soon indeed afterwards my father came with a very sad but kind face in to the room where I sat alone and told me he was sure I should not do that sort of thing again . |
| 20 | Most of the guests on his show live next door — they just pop in on the way home from work . |
| 21 | I 've got an appointment with Shrimpton , the lawyer , at four and I shall look in at the shop afterwards . ’ |
| 22 | It said , if Labour get in to the government today , will the last person who leaves Britain please put the light out . |
| 23 | She had called in at the office once since she left and had been greeted with pleasure . |
| 24 | And we 'll drop in on the way home to watch a few election results or do you think if I start having a party tomorrow night it 's gon na get out of hand ? |
| 25 | The likeliest explanation is that Greek settlers moving in from the south gradually came to dominate the many hill tribes of the region — much as , a little later , Chinese moving into what is now Vietnam came to dominate the local tribes there . |
| 26 | and everything , you know in behind the ear here , I felt as if my head was |
| 27 | The night air was still and mercifully cool , a gentle breeze blowing in from the coast below . |
| 28 | Gorbachev was sworn in by the Congress immediately after the result of the vote was announced . |
| 29 | A new magistrate was sworn in before the sitting yesterday of Whitby Court . |
| 30 | These right-angled bends in the road , whatever the date of the enclosure award may be , reflect some stage in the medieval colonisation of the parish when a new furlong , brought in from the waste perhaps in the twelfth or the thirteenth century , cut across the direct path to the next village and forced it to make a sudden turn for a few yards before resuming its onward course . |