Example sentences of "[verb] in [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We crept in under a low table and covered ourselves with a tarpaulin . |
| 2 | But on the night of January 1st , thieves crept in through a back door and took £30,000 worth of family heirlooms , including two trophies won by the stud farm nearly a century ago : |
| 3 | While the lucky 30 guinea pigs in Bruno 's experiment were sampling his alternative dishes , the other pupils were tucking in to a typical school dinner of beefburger in a bap , sautee potatoes and jacket potato in cheese , or open sandwiches . |
| 4 | Only got in for a few minutes as half the church was there . |
| 5 | He got in through a half-closed larder window . |
| 6 | It was the first time , too , that I 'd been in a classroom with girls , and I got in with a bad bunch of women . |
| 7 | Treleaven , from Hayling , only got in as a last-minute replacement when Michael Welch , on EGU duty in Spain , crushed his thumb in a door and had to scratch from the Salver and Sunday 's Hampshire Hog at North Hants , where he should have been defending . |
| 8 | MEMBERS of LASMO Nova Scotia 's relative response team recently checked in for a flying visit around the Halifax international heliport . |
| 9 | However , on Saturday , October 10 , it is pencilled in for a proposed Newcastle to Maryport via Leeds , Skipton and Workington special , returning to Bradford Forster Square . |
| 10 | This was the scheme outlined by Talcott Parsons and Edward Shils in Towards a General Theory of Action ( 1951 ) . |
| 11 | So I got on the Greyhound Bus for a six-hour ride to Washington and checked in at a cheap hotel opposite the bus depot . |
| 12 | ‘ But we did n't want to go in with a heavy commitment at first ; we took a PC and wrote our own very simple software to deal with incoming orders . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The players have to be prepared to put themselves into dangerous positions , to go in for a hard tackle , be brave and take the blows . |
| 14 | If your candidate is going to research the level of pollution in a local river , he does n't stand on the bridge and look ; he either wades in to feel for junk or he goes in with a professional diver to find it . |
| 15 | Everyone goes in for a little enhancement , one way or another . |
| 16 | ‘ I always felt as if you rode in on a white charger and saved me from my loneliness . |
| 17 | However , with regard to the follow-up of arrests , one of the research team was able to sit in on a Juvenile Case Referral Panel , which recommended whether juveniles should be cautioned , and another member made observations in the magistrates ' courts . |
| 18 | But he could cash in with a lucrative return against the 24-year-old German early next year . |
| 19 | The input cursive line data was first filled in to a consistent thickness . |
| 20 | Some settlement is likely to take place over a period after the trench has been filled , but this can be filled in at a later stage . |
| 21 | Sparse eyebrows can be filled in with a sharpened eye pencil , but soften with a brush afterwards so there is no hard line . |
| 22 | 6/Highlights are masked out while areas are filled in with a thin wash . |
| 23 | Then a Leed rang up saying that he was there and that the particular aviatical chant in question had been initially struck up by the away end , and only joined in by a shameful minority ( ahem ) of Leeds fans . |
| 24 | Young Mrs M. looked shocked at the thought , so she waited outside , while I sprinted in for a quick glimpse at Bishop Stock 's former domain . |
| 25 | When Eddie gets the brush off from his new female boss ( the very wonderful Robin Givens ) , director Reggie Hudlin cues up comic reversals ( she stands him up , drops in for a quick fuck , he bleats about commitment ) , which may not quite reflect the complexity of modern sex wars ( no mention of Aids here ) but are still funny . |
| 26 | Route options have been squeezed in down a narrow corridor of land near the A19 . |
| 27 | We turned our ponies and galloped back to the Legation , where we learnt that news had just come in of a great victory for the Shoan army . |
| 28 | While it has come in for a certain amount of criticism , it has also attracted much praise , especially from industry . |
| 29 | Understandably , this presumption has come in for a great deal of criticism . |
| 30 | It is hard to disappoint someone who may have come in as a last port of call when all other channels to sort out their problems seem closed . |