Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] in on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the life down on the Copacobana beach in Rio … sun shining … waves crashing in on the sand … and its here that Liz Macdonald from Gloucester is setting off on the second leg of the British Steel Challenge … she 's on board the Nuclear Electric yacht … from Rio they round Cape Horn and head for Hobart … they 'll be racing for six weeks … |
| 2 | But , unfortunately , there are also restaurants cashing in on the brasserie bandwagon by serving cheap , cheerful and desperately trendy bistro food in designer surroundings — and charging the earth for it . |
| 3 | She watched him sprawl in a cane chair on the terrace , light a cigar , and pick up a book , uncaring of the many and varied insects homing in on the light above him . |
| 4 | I was sitting on the sofa , quietly crying ; I think I was wishing that Auschwitz looked better than it did , just now , with its windless heat and plagues of flies homing in on the marshes . |
| 5 | Enemy tanks could be illuminated with laser beams and destroyed by missiles homing in on the laser frequency . |
| 6 | I can not see the flats becoming empty on a Friday , and the bulldozers moving in on the Sunday or the Monday . |
| 7 | On election nights members of the locality would collect in a state of great excitement to hear the results coming in on the station telegraph . |
| 8 | Stella has also raised the question of spouses joining in on the dinner circuit . |