Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [verb] in [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thought he was going to kiss her , but it did n't happen , because the door was pushed open and the clerk came in with a pile of reports from other departments . |
| 2 | The parrot joined in with a screech of pleasure . |
| 3 | Another British survivor told how the roof caved in before a sheet of flames spread across the fuselage , cutting him off from his wife . |
| 4 | Nor could I believe that it was the intention to bring in at a single stroke a charge to tax that would be calculated to interrupt the education and expectations of so many parents and children , for it is surely common knowledge that the provision of free or subsidised education for the children of those teaching in independent schools was part of their usual terms of employment and that the salaries paid would be wholly insufficient to meet a charge to tax based on the full fees of the school . |
| 5 | The teacher came in like a colossus and the class shrank into a shivering line . |
| 6 | Nick Serota , director of the Tate , is at the moment coming in for a lot of criticism because he changes the displays every year . |
| 7 | Then the head falls in like a pumpkin . |
| 8 | The organisers say kite-flying is a green sport and the event ties in with a workshop course run for local schoolchildren on the arts and the environment . |
| 9 | The captain joined in with a long raucous song , beating time on the tea tray . |
| 10 | I was shoved down on the bed , the soldier left and the slattern bustled in with a small manchet loaf and a goblet of wine . |
| 11 | And when the sh when the relief came in the ship lay about a mile off the never came near the rock at all because it was just a mass of reefs you know and the ship lay about a mile off and then the launch came in with a crew of about half a dozen men and the officer the second mate usually in charge . |
| 12 | You need the permission of the owner to go in for a title search so you 'd have to know the owner first . |
| 13 | The owner came in with a gendarme . |
| 14 | The newcomer came in on a gust of the storm . |
| 15 | The orderly came in with a pot of tea . |
| 16 | er and therefore for that very reason do not like to see the Government going in for a whole series of embarrassing defeats er and erm getting into very grave difficulties with an important Bill and I therefore arise only to ask my Noble Friend er at the last minute would like to consider very seriously erm a conciliatory reply of whether accepting er the amendments with er or er or some of them er with er er er view to their reconsideration or asking those who propose them to defer them from to from today 's sitting , there 's still further sittings ahead , but whether he was prepared to ask them to give him a chance to reflect without incurring serious Government defeats to reflect further on whether further amendments can not and should not be made . |
| 17 | Anyone in the building can breathe and move but is unable to see any thing , so the theory is that he wanders clueless in a cloud until the security-squad charges in with a chemical that breaks the foam up . |
| 18 | The Army moved in with a water cannon and tear gas , forcing the marchers into hasty retreat . |
| 19 | Then below it you would have da da , year and somehow the subject fitted in on a line across , below it ? |
| 20 | We were , yes , cos that 's when I went on to the crane driving in for a crane and got it you see , that 's why I finished up as a crane driver until I went stevedoring . |
| 21 | The door opened , and the man came in with a woman doctor . |
| 22 | If you wanted the report handed in by a certain day , why did n't you say so ? |
| 23 | The attacker moves in with a roundhouse kick to the head and the defender raises his arm to ward it off . |
| 24 | The information tied in with a jig-saw of international intelligence laboriously pieced together over several years , and a decision was made to lay a trap , involving on the I.D . |
| 25 | Now the old-fashioned , strong hessian is wonderful for keeping you warm and dry and John always sported three sacks — one round his waist , another over his shoulders , and the third with the corner pushed in for a hood over his head . |
| 26 | The Defence Minister barely flinched as the camera zoomed in for a close-up of his face as they ran the famous film clip from mid-December , 1987 , in which he promised that it would all be over by Christmas . |
| 27 | The Defence Minister barely flinched as the camera zoomed in for a close-up of his face as they ran the famous film clip from mid-December , 1987 , in which he promised that it would all be over by Christmas . |
| 28 | As Henry signs the new treaty at the French court , the camera moves in to a close-up as he recalls the faces of the people who have been friends to him in more dissolute days , and have now followed him into battle . |
| 29 | AFTER the opening shot of a cartoon rainbow descending over a stately home , the camera panned in on a well-groomed man with a moustache . |
| 30 | The camera hones in on a platinum blonde Madonna , poured into a slinky , strapless white dress that she swears ‘ took more fittings than I had shooting days in the movie ’ . |