Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb base] in [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Three backlist titles tie in with the television and are reissued in April .
2 When proper gentlemen start in with the fists there 's usually a woman at the bottom of it .
3 Ponds and lakes , too , benefit from their surroundings , as leaves and insects perish within them , and some nutrients run in from the surrounding land .
4 Trains on different services pull in to the same platform , and turnouts are installed to enable them to move in and out and pass one another .
5 He had a full scrip of the small white flowers when he made the journey for the seventh time , and saw the three riders pace in at the gatehouse , and stood unobserved to watch Tutilo dismount , part amicably from his guards , and come wearily towards the gatehouse door , as if he would himself take the key and deliver himself dutifully back to his captivity .
6 These findings tie in with the regular spontaneous contractions which are observed in smooth muscle .
7 That the services they provide are relevant to environmental groups , and in that way to help environmental groups plug in to the kinds of advice on fund raising and er , management and all sorts of other aspects of running a voluntary organisation , which , at the moment , of , er a lot of , er social service organisations plug into , but so many environmental groups .
8 But more complex emotions creep in at the fringes of the tale , where the grandfather 's ostracism of the man his daughter loves leads to several fraught emotional scenes .
9 More voices join in on the radio circuit .
10 Yet understanding where older customers fit in to the scheme of things is very important if discrimination is to be avoided , because it will influence both the products and the marketing approach .
11 In battle scenes the villainous attackers move in from the right and the valiant defenders , usually the good guys obstinately rejecting defeat , are on the left .
12 If the animal is seen against a pale background , the pale patches blend in with the environment , leaving only the dark patches visible .
13 One example of this is on page 156 when Scout and Jem have discovered that Atticus is sitting outside the county Jail on one of his office chairs and as they cross the square to get nearer to him , four dusty cars come in from the Meridian highway , moving slowly in a line eventually stopping outside the Jail .
14 As the child gets older , other agencies get in on the act .
15 Other oddities creep in with the attempt to harmonise plurals of French compound words .
16 Then the electric fields due to the two sheets add in between the sheets
17 And , by Royal Appointment … the Russian swans fly in through the fog .
18 The material , long hidden in KGB files or in the memories of intelligence operatives , is up for grabs as ageing ex-KGB agents come in from the cold to trade in their undercover pasts for over-the-counter assets .
19 If Soviet soldiers get in to the parliament there will be a bloodbath .
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