Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] in [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More of them got in on the industrial act — Sri Lanka was the latest brave new industrializing country , while India finally took off as a major supplier of iron and steel on the global stage . |
| 2 | The only other fictional world I lived in with the same intensity was that of Louisa M. Alcott . |
| 3 | I moved in to the front room where the disco had moved on to heavier metal ( New Model Army , I think — a band to watch despite their fans ) but still nobody was dancing . |
| 4 | At four and a half thousand pound of sales we start to pay extra fift in fact at four thousand pound we start but it 's only a small bonus so I home in on the bigger one . |
| 5 | I had n't intended to speak on the external affairs section , but the discussion had widened so much that I came in with the attached remarks . |
| 6 | I could relive it every time I came in through the front door . |
| 7 | There was a layer of grey-blue smoke in the room at about shoulder level , and a big wave in it , probably produced by me as I came in through the double doors of the back porch . |
| 8 | The cheapest way to go was via Colombo and so I dropped in on the local centre there . |
| 9 | ‘ And where do I fit in under the new organisation ? ’ |
| 10 | lifting a sheet of corrugated iron which the farmer had ready I rushed in among the little pigs . |
| 11 | I walked in at the first door I saw . |
| 12 | Where does yours fit in to the various classifications — or do you have a baby who 's a mixture of several ? |
| 13 | I called in at the wrong time . |
| 14 | I go in with the old one as well , right ? |
| 15 | Way back in 1957 I had talked my boss into allowing me to learn to fly helicopters with the British European Airways Helicopter Unit at Gatwick and in 1960 I sat in on the first ground school course BOAC conducted for their senior captains converting to the first Boeing 707s . |
| 16 | Because she , she goes in off the deep end and you |
| 17 | As she taxied in to the small civilian terminal , Adam watched the three fighter planes ease their pointed noses skyward and climb at over thirty thousand feet a minute . |
| 18 | ‘ Dejala , ’ they yelled as she rode in for the big swipe and missed it . |
| 19 | You saw in fact the lady as you came in about the same time as you came in who does that . |
| 20 | She slunk in through the French windows , hoping to creep upstairs unseen . |
| 21 | He left Helen and went to have a bath and in the cold steamy bathroom there came to him this vision of a distant unreal Helen looking — well , radiant was the unexpected word that came to mind — looking not her usual self at all in some frock that glowed and billowed and rustled as she came in at the front door late , pink-cheeked , a touch dishevelled and greeted by the stone wall of Dorothy 's disapproval . |
| 22 | When she came in for the second time her throat was like looking at a plate full of strawberries and cream — red enlarged tonsils with a coating of puss . |
| 23 | Carefully she turned in through the wide hospital gates . |
| 24 | When she walked in at the back door Mrs Peterson said : ‘ You 're back then . |
| 25 | Seven or eight thousand figures had taken up position kneeling on prayer carpets , so that as you walked in through the great red-stone gate you were confronted by rank upon rank of white-clad backs topped with brightly coloured turbans or embroidered mosque-caps . |
| 26 | She rang in on the fifth day to say she was no better and did n't feel she was getting anywhere . |
| 27 | If you did n't get it you went in to the supplementary . |
| 28 | She went in through the front door , as always . |
| 29 | She went in by the front door and upstairs to her room ; and was still being torn apart by her emotions . |
| 30 | Do n't want you falling in with the wrong types , do we ? |