Example sentences of "[be] [verb] in [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er has the card been filled in with a date on it ? |
| 2 | He felt like a moth that had been sucked in to a candle flame , but the fluttering was in his chest . |
| 3 | Social problems are crowding in on a city where the body-count for murders rose from a record 1,905 in 1989 to a new record of more than 2,200 in 1990 . |
| 4 | Perhaps they had been staved in by a bath chair which had run amok ! |
| 5 | That is nipples which are turned in like a crater , or which do not stick up by at least half a centimetre when gently pinched between thumb and forefinger from just beyond the base . |
| 6 | A Middle East dollar market exists in Bahrain where euro-dollars ( and other currencies ) are intermediated in by a number of Arab and non-Arab banks . |
| 7 | Movement , scent and sound can give you away when you 're heading in for a close up shot . |
| 8 | They 're coming in on a starship disguised as a Boeing 747 so that the locals wo n't suspect until it 's too late , but when they land at London Heathrow their baggage gets lost ; all their heavy weaponry ends up in Miami and gets mixed up with the luggage of some psychiatrists attending an international symposium on anal-fixation after death , and : Freudians take over the world with the captured high-tech . |
| 9 | The morning 's cream is quietly clotting on the stove , the gleaming copper pans are being put to use and the farmworkers are filing in to a meal which is pure poetry ; vegetables plucked from the soil within the hour , fresh baked bread , farm butter , eggs , game and fruit . |
| 10 | He 'd just been shown in by a messenger , and the moment the uniformed official had withdrawn , had expressed surprise and displeasure at finding her to be his interviewer . |
| 11 | A twenty year old man has been called in for a chat with an inspector . |
| 12 | She also found herself naturally in tune with Laura 's taste and , although her job specification was to oversee the entire design structure for clothes , Laura advised her that she ‘ had been brought in as a flanker to Moira ’ . |
| 13 | In 1855 he had been brought in as a partner to Beyer & Peacock 's Gorton factory in Manchester , recently built for the manufacture of railway locomotives , and he maintained an active role in the management of Beyer , Peacock & Co. until his death . |
| 14 | But this dog , known as a Mexican hairless , landed him in court when trading standards officers in Felixstowe discovered it had been brought in without a licence . |
| 15 | It is the first time troops have been brought in during a dispute since 1978 . |
| 16 | UB may be pencilled in for a show in the King 's Hall on January |
| 17 | In other cases , a partner 's contribution may be agreed to be collected in over a period of years out of his profit share . |
| 18 | Erm but basically you , you would be going in to a village to , to try and encourage land reform with this document or knowing that this document existed . |
| 19 | sort of in conjunction with that , that has to go you know i has to be tied in with a bonus contract that suits the workforce . |
| 20 | Any new planting was designed to be phased in over a period of years , planting schemes having to take account of the need to create a distinctive landscape for the immediate future as well as for the long term . |
| 21 | However , this is not expected to happen for some time and even when reform is introduced , the probability is that it will be phased in over a number of years . |
| 22 | But if we assume that such an appeal can be successfully made on the economic front , this strategy needs to be knitted in with a range of other policies that appeal to altruism as well as self-interest . |
| 23 | 4 The same piece of string , 36cm long , can be pulled in to a lot of different rectangles all having the same perimeter , but different areas . |
| 24 | It 's also a good idea to have a spare machine readily to hand and regularly checked so that it can be wheeled in at a moment 's notice . |
| 25 | ‘ Malcolm may be coming in for a couple of days each week , ’ said Rofe . |
| 26 | Miranda will be coming in in a minute . |
| 27 | It is the purest form of finding out about an ancient site , but it does depend on the ability of the observer to distinguish information that may be coming in from a variety of sources . |
| 28 | HP is known to have been casing the industry for new directions — a process witnessed by the winding down of its New Wave interface efforts — and is now thought to be closing in for a piece of Taligent Inc ( UX No 417 ) , the Apple Computer Inc/IBM Corp joint venture on object-oriented operating system technology . |
| 29 | A small garden that can be taken in at a glance can soon become boring . |
| 30 | She was such a level-headed , dynamic person ; and to be taken in by a scut like him . ’ |