Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] in [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the tourists come to see is a raised dais of grass hemmed in by a retaining wall . |
| 2 | OS/2 will get 8.5% of the total workstation market by 1996 , it says , with Unix coming in at a hefty 47% and Windows NT possibly capturing 30–40% of the office desktop/workstation market . |
| 3 | The branch road from Dent joins in at a bridge and the hamlet of Cowgill , once a parish in its own right , is immediately beyond : here is a church built in 1873 , a converted school , the pleasant residence and gardens of Cowgill Grange and an isolated terrace of cottages . |
| 4 | The ground is white , and on it women 's skin is outlined in red , men 's and boys ' in black filled in with a pinkish colour , the same distinction as on the Thermon metopes ( above , p. 13 ) , and clothes are in flat washes of clear , bright red and blue . |
| 5 | As a stake in society comes in at a higher cost , the old certainties begin to wither . |
| 6 | This meant that the married women left at home came in for a large share of the work about the croft . |
| 7 | There was nothing in the least bit objectionable about him , but he looked as though he had a computer where his heart was , and rushed home at night to plug in to a socket and recharge the batteries . |