Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [v-ing] in [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the ceremony she tottered off to the bus , looking as if she had every intention of popping in to the local when she got home and livening everyone up with a steady dropping of ‘ To think our ‘ Ilda should go before me ’ remarks . |
| 2 | On the forecourt he unlocked the car and threw the diaries across on to the passenger seat before sliding in behind the wheel . |
| 3 | Apart from the bore of travelling in from the suburbs every day , his mother irritated him . |
| 4 | So we need , it 's simply a question of pulling in on the reasons for this , if it 's maternity , it 's suspension , it gives us much more understanding than simply globally assuming everybody who 's away is sick . |
| 5 | This switch was intended to enable Roshanara to retain her influence by stepping in as the child 's regent . |
| 6 | Yeah I mean I 'm not , I 'm not saying you 're a bad influence on her now , I think she 's just sort of jumping in at the chance for someone to victimize personally . |
| 7 | There was n't much point in calling in at the shop , so I came straight here . ’ |
| 8 | Course it 's worth bothering because a lot of young men that was unemployed come down to the school where I 'm the caretaker and they said , we know that you 're running short is there any chance of getting in on the scene ? |
| 9 | ‘ Any chance of getting in at the end of that scheme ? ’ |
| 10 | De Gaulle wanted the agricultural settlement but was not prepared to accept it at the price of giving in to the other five and the Commission on the issues of resourcing and budgetary control . |
| 11 | POLICE and football clubs were accused last night of giving in to the ‘ yobs and thugs ’ by forcing managers to stay away from matches . |
| 12 | He gave it a few pumps and collected an armful of logs for the stove before going in through the back door . |
| 13 | He was heading for the North Sea coast , which he would cross near Terschelling then follow for a while before turning in for the approach to Aalborg . |
| 14 | The idea was that the police would wait until they had incontrovertible evidence before moving in for the arrest , but Branson and Draper had barely sat down with the Clarkes before some forty policemen swarmed through the door , knocking over tables and chairs and arresting the two brothers . |
| 15 | I was really depressed at the thought of coming in to the office this morning . |
| 16 | He would look in the summer-house before coming in by the back door but he seldom found me there now . |
| 17 | Well income revenue of hundred and twenty five thousand a year to manage the potential for getting in on the partners plan . |
| 18 | Now , though , I am saying that being reasonable is partly a matter of falling in with the conventions — in time and place — of an intellectual form of life or culture ; and this surely raises the spectre of relativism . |
| 19 | Manager Dick Graham immediately went back to his former club , West Bromwich Albion , and purchased Welsh International , Tony Millington to take over but , by the end of the year it was Jackson who was earning praise in the Palace goal after standing in for the injured Welshman and making his home debut against Cardiff on 28 November 1964 , and by the end of the season ‘ Jacko ’ , as he became popularly called , was in undisputed possession |
| 20 | It may have been ignored since 1981 and left to make do with just two small engines ( and thus no way of cashing in on the ever-increasing popularity of the hot supermini in Britain ) but all that 's changed now . |
| 21 | Here 's a tough but effective way of honing in on the most meaningful elements of your life . |
| 22 | He was n't going for a joy trip , he was n't going out in the boat just to se to while away an hour or so to relax and to unwind , he was n't going there to , just to get away from the crowd of people that had been following him and had been listening to him , he had a purpose in going in into the boat , to go to the other side . |
| 23 | Though Connolly also headed straight at the goalkeeper in the 88th minute — that was probably the time McLean slipped off his sandbag — an even better opportunity for United to secure a share of the spoils was squandered by substitute Christian Dailly , who failed to even get his shot on target after getting in behind the Hearts defence . |
| 24 | Within a year or so you will have the satisfaction of moving in to the house you have built with your own hands ; your old home will have been sold , allowing you to pay back the building society loan you took out to buy the land and materials ; and there will be more than enough profit , considering how much you saved by using your own labour , to pay for some champagne to celebrate . |
| 25 | Graf , unbeaten since the beginning of May , took her winning streak to 35 matches by posting a 4–6 6–1 6–0 victory over the 11th-seeded Swiss , who played an inspired first set before caving in under the German 's familiar pressure . |
| 26 | Will the Minister assure the House that , whatever privatisation plans he has for the trust ports , there will be no recognition of those people who seem to have an interest in cashing in on the endeavours for their own ends ? |