Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] in [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We are concerned in fact that er the western nations did n't rather deplore earlier er Hussein 's actions against his own people using chemical weapons , and we think it 's a shame for us that we 've only come in at this point , and we must come in carefully I think .
2 I knew she had psychic gifts , but I could not work out how she was so clued in to this film .
3 Cos we only go in for one drink to cel , celebrate Penny 's birthday with her .
4 It was all gone in about one minute fifty seconds .
5 But the troops will only go in for humanitarian reasons including the protection of supplies .
6 thesis ( Young 1986 ) , Mike Chatterton ( 1988 ) rightly homed in on this question of ethics , saying : ‘ there is reference here to the moral dilemma(s) posed by ‘ insiders ’ using their access to do ethnography and what that entails regarding betraying confidences etc … .
7 It can only come in as some kind of ‘ emergent property ’ of all these causal interactions .
8 There was always a long wait for an appointment , sometimes up to a month , and women were only kept in for 24 hours if it was a normal birth .
9 And his friend Rachel ( ‘ She 's a singer ’ ) has just dropped in with some presents from her mom , and the bluesman tells us his old voice is starting to go , and our audience is finished .
10 He 's , he 's already come in for one form put it , he 's obviously filled one form in , he came up and he said can I have an application form for that job in the window , so I gave him one and he went , oh well I 've just filled one in .
11 The main spar booms and other main structural members were sizable pieces of laminated wood , several inches square , and were generally boxed in on three sides by the plywood skin and shear webs .
12 The farsighted and Strong minded PRO will not give in to such pressures and will try to explain the pitfalls of such a course to the powers that be .
13 However , a Kuwaiti official told reporters that the talks had collapsed " because Kuwait did not give in to Iraqi demands to write off debts and to relinquish some of its territory " .
14 She would not give in to these men .
15 No , she would enjoy this evening , she would let André entertain and amuse her , and she would not give in to useless introspection .
16 She and Mandy had finally got in from last night 's fiasco around four in the morning .
17 Election Call , the daily phone-in , has attracted audiences of more than a million , compared with between 300,000 and 700,000 who normally tune in at that time .
18 " I reckon you 're very wise not going in for this lark , " Joanne said , shifting the mound of her body uncomfortably under the bedclothes .
19 But the money will not flow in on this scale for ever .
20 COUNCILLORS vowed yesterday not to give in to unruly schoolchildren who bring mayhem to Cleveland buses .
21 Okay that does not fit in with this style of newspaper .
22 It may be , of course , that such an inference is wrong , but , as discourse processors , we seem to prefer to make inferences which have some likelihood of being justified and , if some subsequent information does not fit in with this inference , we abandon it and form another .
23 That does not fit in with any orthodoxy .
24 Despite heavy traffic , it did not fit in with British Railway 's policy , and also it suffered from Union intransigency. tickets were printed by the NER and its successors , and followed their standard designs .
25 At this stage Vigilant was ten miles away moving in at eleven knots while the three other cutters were twenty miles away converging at twenty knots .
26 Customs control on arrival is very lax so any spare parts are best brought in as personal luggage rather than sent separately .
27 The fog had not set in at that time , late afternoon , and the dockers were able to describe the men as respectable-looking young gents in peaked caps .
28 ‘ I do n't normally go in for public displays of affection , ’ he murmured , ‘ but you 're irresistible .
29 ‘ I do n't normally go in for public displays of affection either , ’ she murmured impulsively , forgetting her uneasiness , ‘ but even with sand on your face you 're … ’
30 ‘ We are not a national daily ; we do not go in for moral crusades . ’
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