Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] in on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could feel my heart going boom-ba-di-boom — imagined my heart when it was dead , all its auricles and ventricles shrinking and wrinkling like burst balloons after my head got bashed in on the rocks . |
| 2 | Mind , he 'd crashed in on the situation pretty damn quickly , stepping in and being nice to her almost before she had dried her eyes , trying to get her on the rebound . |
| 3 | As the freak end of the underground had dropped in on the LSE , so the politicos , or would-be politicos , packed their bags for Alexandra Palace . |
| 4 | She swam and sunbathed , went sightseeing , worked on her designs , talked brightly on the phone with Lucy , or Dad or Charles whenever they rang her , forcing herself not to ask whether Guy had moved in on the firm yet , and then wincing when Lucy said that he 'd made his mark in a dramatic emergency board meeting , put up the backs of most of the board of directors when he announced sweeping measures to increase profitability , cut overheads … |
| 5 | Wainfleet added that although the police had closed in on the area they had missed Sniffy . |
| 6 | The Land Rover 's motor was already running when he arrived in the street , and when Hennessy had clambered in on the passenger side Windeler moved off without even waiting to see if the door was secure . |
| 7 | Then he remembered the time that he had walked in on the Politburo meeting and arrested Beria . |
| 8 | And in any case , if he recovered he 'd spend his life looking for Vecchi , if that party had muscled in on the black . |