Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] in on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I only came in on the red , raw minute , ’ she said , ‘ so you 'll excuse me , madam . ’ |
| 2 | When Ceauŝescu personally came in on the act they faked a car accident and tricked up a couple of bodies for the Securitate to send back to England . |
| 3 | The idea of literally dropping in on the enemy and catching them unawares would have seemed attractive after several months ' idleness . |
| 4 | Toby , on the other hand , just looked in on the way to the boarding annexe , and popped straight out again , while Corbett Farraday had no particular fear of the boys — were n't they all boys together at Burleigh ? and stayed in the Staff Common Room for no other reason than to work himself up to an approach to Penny . |
| 5 | Both convergent and divergent modes of thought are necessary for a creative act to occur : the writer must actually arrange his freely associated ideas into organised prose or the scientist finally home in on the solution to a problem . |
| 6 | Most of the guests on his show live next door — they just pop in on the way home from work . |
| 7 | And we always home in on the cost of a full page . |
| 8 | Finally I turned and started back , not conscious of anything , my mind still locked in on the impression the place had made so that I only vaguely heard a voice calling me . |
| 9 | The F–104 and T–33 also got in on the act , all are now based at Oshkosh . |
| 10 | Yesterday the Scottish Landowners ' Federation also got in on the act , claiming that the quota sale had confirmed fears about value . |
| 11 | The Welsh international Dean Saunders also got in on the hat-trick act as Derby County overturned a 2-1 deficit against Cambridge United with a 5-0 victory to leave them 6-2 overall winners . |
| 12 | The club scene is now inundated with New Zealand and Australian coaches , due in no small part to the success of Garryowen , current AIL champions under their New Zealand coach , my husband , Murray Kidd. the IRFU is also getting in on the act with the appointment of former All Black captain and current Wellington coach Andy Leslie to its coaching panel . |
| 13 | Emeryville , California-based Sybase Inc is also getting in on the act , saying that it has licensed IBM Corp 's Distributed Relational Database Architecture and plans to use it to support distributed unit of work access between IBM databases , and Sybase SQL Server and Open Client and Open Server applications . |
| 14 | Surviving reports and other evidence show that he also sat in on the hearing of ordinary civil litigation in at least five counties . |
| 15 | George Bush could now cash in on the country 's post-war confidence by launching another war on the black home-front . |
| 16 | The antibiotic mould supposedly drifting in on the wind becomes prosaic when its magic is revealed only by tedious operations in a laboratory or factory . |
| 17 | Wales are now getting in on the act . |
| 18 | We can often go in on the basis that if somebody has a problem that they want to look at that , just as frequently somebody has an interest that they want to develop , to know more about . |
| 19 | I began to feel I was really homing in on the answer : involuntary spasms had sent those lifeless appendages hopping about the turret like bingo balls on a current of air … until their trajectories just happened to coincide with not-wall , not-floor , not-ceiling ( which I quickly worked out was better than a one in three shot every hop ) . |
| 20 | Such is the state of computer technology for the registration and running of club membership lists that hobby-based clubs for children or adults like this , run by publishers , could well proliferate , and lively booksellers might do well to get in on the act . |
| 21 | An example of a processing bias would be the use of a mental filter — characteristically homing in on the negative in a situation and leaving the positive out of account . |
| 22 | After a few attempts I found I was turning like Robby Naish for the first part of the turn , then falling in on the inside of the turn . |
| 23 | Or if , as was soon clear to many , something was wrong with the claims , it would be possible to show how the standard workings of science can design experiments to answer specific questions , strategically closing in on the truth . |
| 24 | and the deferred pensioners are not actually getting in on the debate , they 're not often represented on the trustees in fact . |